DYLAN'S DAEMON LOVER by Clinton Heylin

     Written as a literary detective story, DYLAN'S DAEMON LOVER is about the ancient folk ballads, strewn with sex, betrayal and death, that Dylan described in 1997 as 'my lexicon and my prayer-book'. Written by an acclaimed Dylan expert and the author of DYLAN BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, the book involves and embraces characters as diverse as Robert Graves, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Burns, and Scotland's legendary thirteenth century seer Thomas of Erceldoune (aka Thomas the Rhymer) in its analysis of traditional music and its influence on Dylan.'

    - THE TANGLED TALE OF A 450-YEAR OLD POP BALLAD. The ballad in question is the 17th-century Scottish ballad,The Bonnie Lass o'Fyvie, which was adapted and recorded by Bob Dylan in 1961 under the title The House Carpenter.

Helter Skelter 1999, 224 pages. ISBN 9781900924153.

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