In 1987, Dylan had a brief affair with musician Britta Lee Shain, who published a tell-all about their fling, Seeing the Real You at Last: Life and Love on the Road with Bob Dylan, in 2016.

Most Bob Dylan experts will tell you the quality and daring of his work fell off a bit in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. It was more a question of want-to than anything, as he concentrated more on his ...