Together Through Life
Together Through Life is the 33rd studio album by Bob Dylan. It was released on 28 April 2009 under Columbia Records.
Production
Dylan produced the recording under the pseudonym Jack Frost, which he had already used in his previous two studio albums, " Love and Theft " and Modern Times. First published in Rolling Stone rumors about the album appeared surprisingly and without previous press release on March 16, 2009 - less than two months before the actual release date. It was also claimed that the album contained " songs of love itself struggling ( struggling love songs ) " and had little in common with the previous album Modern Times.
In an article published on Dylan's website talking to the music journalist Bill Flanagan these similarities, the new recordings with the sound of Chess Records and Sun Records suggests what Dylan the way, " as the instruments were played," attributed. He also noted that the music originally dates back to the French director Olivier Dahan request of. This Dylan had asked if he could provide the theme song for his new road movie, My Own Love Song, which Dylan with the song " Life is Hard" did. This song has become a whole new album, the inspiration.
Dylan is accompanied on the album by his regular touring band. In addition, David Hidalgo from Los Lobos and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. In his interview with Flanagan Dylan Campbell's guitar playing describes as follows: " It goes well with me. He has been playing so long together with Tom that he hears everything from the perspective of a songwriter and dominated almost every way you play. "
Songs
Many of the titles Dylan wrote along with the Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, with whom he had in 1988 already written two songs for the album Down in the Groove. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone Magazine Dylan says: " Hunter is an old friend, we could possibly write hundreds of songs together when we felt it was important or would see the right reasons. He has his way with words and I have mine. We both write a different kind of song than what is today considered a songwriting. "The only other songwriter, with the Dylan has ever worked with to such an extent is Jacques Levy, has been created with the the majority of the texts of Desire (1976 ).
The song " Beyond Here Lies Nothin ' " for a day ( Monday, March 30, 2009 ) was available on Dylan's website as a free download. " I Feel a Change Comin 'On" was released as a stream on 6 April on the Times Online website, as well as the third part of his interview with Bill Flanagan. As with other previous albums Dylan has adapted well to Together Through Life lyrics from other songs and incorporated into his own. Thus, for example, comes the phrase "If you ever go to Houston, you better walk right" out of the folk song " Midnight Special ". Dylan played in 1962 during the recording of this song by Harry Belafonte, the harmonica.
Success and reception
The album debuted in several countries at once as number one, including the U.S. and the UK, where it was Dylan's first number one hit in 1970 with New Morning.
The evaluation was generally positive. 2009 gave the album 76 out of 100 points on Metacritic ( "Generally Favorable reviews "). On the occasion of Flanagan interviews Dylan also expressed his expectations of how the fans would probably take the CD: "I know that my fans will like it. No idea how it is in other (I know my fans will like it. Other than that, I have no idea ). "
The Rolling Stone Magazine gave the album 4 out of 5 stars. Wrote David Fricke of Rolling Stone: " Dylan has never been devastated so, sounded angry and powerful. " The BBC called the album " a masterful reading of the American folk music of the 20th century, albeit interspersed with a few adverse lyrical twists "and an" homage to the urban Chicago blues. " A reviewer of the Mojo described it as " dark and reassuring ." Uncut and Blender awarded both 5 out of 5 stars on the grounds that it was " incredibly good."
Versions
The album is available as a version with a CD and as a deluxe edition with 3 CDs. The deluxe version includes both the actual album, as well as the " Friends and Neighbors " episode of Dylan's radio show " Theme Time Radio Hour " and a DVD showing an interview with the First average manager Roy Silver ( the interview was for Martin Scorsese's film no Direction Home - Bob Dylan recorded but finally not used).
Title list
Occupation
- Bob Dylan - guitar, keyboard, vocals
- Mike Campbell - guitar, mandolin
- David Hidalgo - accordion, guitar
- Donnie Herron - steel guitar, banjo, mandolin, trumpet
- Tony Garnier - bass guitar
- George Recile - drums