TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE (CD/DVD DELUXE EDITION) - Dylan, Bob

Dylan, Bob - TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE (CD/DVD DELUXE EDITION) In a conversation with music journalist Bill Flanagan, published on Bob Dylan's official website, Flanagan suggested a similarity of the new record to the sound of Chess Records and Sun Records, which Dylan acknowledged as an effect of "the way the instruments were played."

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Artist:: Dylan, Bob
Title:: TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE (CD/DVD DELUXE EDITION)
Format:: 2CD+DVD
Barcode No.:: 886975169726
Available:: 24-04-2009
Sourced:: Australia

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Deluxe 2CD & DVD version

Disc 1 - Together Through Life CD
Disc 2 - CD in slipsleeve featuring the ‘Friends and Neighbors’ episode of Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour. For those of you not familiar with these radio shows, they feature Dylan as DJ, talking and playing a wildly eclectic selection of songs. These shows air on Sirius/XM radio (US) and BBC Radio (UK) and are absolutely fascinating.
Disc 3 - DVD in slipsleeve, featuring an interview with Dylan’s first manager Roy Silver, which was taped for the ‘No Direction Home’ documentary but didn’t make the final cut. Included in the interview is the original demo (audio only) of “Blowin’ In The Wind”.
Sticker and poster featuring the album cover image

In a conversation with music journalist Bill Flanagan, published on Bob Dylan's official website, Flanagan suggested a similarity of the new record to the sound of Chess Records and Sun Records, which Dylan acknowledged as an effect of "the way the instruments were played." He said that the genesis of the record was when French film director Olivier Dahan asked him to supply a song for his new road movie, My Own Love Song, and "then the record sort of took its own direction." The song written for the movie is "Life is Hard."
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Mojo's Michael Simmons: "Yet what I heard offered ample proof of an artist steeped in the past but thoroughly living in the present, cognizant of everything, not afraid to point fingers or laugh at fools or fall in love.
"It's a powerful personal work by a man who still thinks for himself in an era of fear, conformity, and dehumanization. That it rocks mightily makes the message even more compelling."

Uncut's Allan Jones: "We now know that the new Bob Dylan album, which unexpectedly will be with us in April, is called Together Through Life. We know also that it was written and recorded quickly.
"Dylan had been asked by the French film director Olivier Dahan, who made the Edith Piaf biopic, La Vie En Rose, which Dylan had apparently liked, to write some songs for his new movie, My Own Love Song. Dylan duly came up with a ballad called "Life Is Hard", and was so inspired the next thing anyone knew he'd written nine more new songs and not long after that - bingo! - here's Together Through Life in all its rowdy glory.
"What's it sound like? Well, early reports have hinted at a mix of Dylan's beloved Chicago blues and the loping border country feel of, say, "Girl From The Red River Shore", the latter courtesy of Los Lobos' David Hidalgo, whose accordion features on every track, alongside Dylan's formidable current touring band and as yet unidentified guest musicians.
"Both musical elements are indeed here, brazenly matched on nearly ever track, Hidalgo either providing lyrical lilting counterpoint to the band's hard driving blues muscle or flinging himself headlong into the fray with pumping riffs, as on the jumping "If You Ever Go To Houston" ("keep your hands in your pockets and your gun-belts tied").
"The broad template for much of the album would appear to be, let's say, "Thunder On the Mountain" and "Rollin' And Tumblin'" from Modern Times, but in truth these tracks are, overall, much punchier, a raucous edge to everything in sight. Only the noble "Life Is Hard" is in the crooning style of something like "Beyond The Horizon" and even here there's a ragged edge to things that wasn't apparent on Modern Times, a rawness - emotional and musical - that separates it from that album and its immediate predecessors, "Love And Theft" and Time Out Of Mind.
"Together In Life gets in your face immediately - with the wallop of the cheerfully-titled "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'", which is driven by spectacular drumming and massed horns, a trumpet prominently featured - and over the course of its 10 tracks doesn't back off, doesn't appear to even think about doing so, Dylan's voice throughout an unfettered roar, a splendid growl.
"The album broadly is preoccupied with themes of mortality, lost love, grief, the passing of time, memory, waning days and lonely nights. The mood of these songs, however, couldn't be more different to the mordant reflection of, for instance, "Not Dark Yet". Together Through Life is a rowdy gut-bucket, by turns angry, funny, sassy, Dylan heading noisily in the direction of that last good night.

Track Listing

Disc 1 - Together Through Life

Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
Life Is Hard
My Wife's Home Town
If You Ever Go To Houston
Forgetful Heart
Jolene
This Dream Of You
Shake Shake Mama
I Feel A Change Comin' On
It's All Good

Disc 2 - Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan: Friends & Neighbors

Howdy Neighbor
Don't Take Everybody To Be Your Friend
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
La Valse De Amitie
Make Friends
My Next Door Neighbor
Let's Invite Them Over
My Friends
Last Night
You've Got A Friend
Bad Neighborhood
Neighbors
Too Many Parties And Too Many Pals
Why Can’t We Be Friends

Disc 3 - DVD: Roy Silver - The Lost Interview

Bob Dylan Interview
Roy Silver Interview
Blowin' In The Wind - Photo Montage
Blowin' In The Wind
Roy Silver Interview

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