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27/04/2009 Bob Dylan’s Together Through Life: first impressions
An evening with Together Through Life was a pleasant experience: better than expected, not as strong as secretly hoped. First impressions: * musically engaging – urban blues and Tex-Mex styles more suited to Dylan than the easy crooning and plodding rockabilly of the previous two albums. * lyrically - worth careful scrutiny, though words seem a trifle lightweight on a superficial hearing. * the De Luxe package is intriguing: extra content a mixed blessing - already have TTRH show on tape, doubtful will ever listen to CD; DVD a hoot, presumably intentionally; bits of paper not destined for the bedroom wall or the car windscreen. Another beautifully designed artefact – for the third studio album in a row. Dylan’s USP, to me, is poet, philosopher and musician, in that order. This CD’s songs, though more immediately attractive than those on the two previous albums, are probably destined to be cherry-picked for a revised “recent songs” compilation, few if any of whose constituents would make my Top 100 Bobsongs. That said, I usually revise my opinions upwards after getting to know a new Dylan album. What do YOU think of Together Through Life? Gerry Smith
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