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Track Listings
1 | Beyond Here Lies Nothin' (Explicit) |
2 | Life Is Hard |
3 | My Wife's Home Town |
4 | If You Ever Go to Houston |
5 | Forgetful Heart |
6 | Jolene |
7 | This Dream of You |
8 | Shake Shake Mama |
9 | I Feel a Change Comin' On |
10 | It's All Good |
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2009 release from the Rock legend. Together Through Life was recorded late last year and features 10 new songs including 'Life Is Hard', 'Beyond Here Lies Nothin' and 'It's All Good.' This album is the 46th release from Dylan, and follows 2006's platinum-selling album Modern Times, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 and reached the top of the charts in seven additional countries and the Top 5 in 22 countries around the world. Bob Dylan's three previous studio albums have been universally hailed as among the best of his storied career, achieving new levels of commercial success and critical acclaim for the artist.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 4.97 x 5.6 x 0.49 inches; 4 ounces
- Manufacturer : Legacy Recordings
- Item model number : 5232384
- Original Release Date : 2009
- Run time : 45 minutes
- Date First Available : March 13, 2009
- Label : Legacy Recordings
- ASIN : B001VNB56I
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #38,698 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #870 in Folk Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #922 in Blues Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,244 in Pop Singer-Songwriters
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Few of them provide any laughs, though.
The era evoked on "Together Through Life," while not strikingly contemporary, sounds much closer at hand. In the song "If You Ever Go to Houston," we hear that the narrator almost died in Houston in the Mexican War, and we are offered the advice that we'd best have our gun-belts on tight if we ever visit that no-nonsense Lone-star town. The guy singing the song, one feels, died awhile back. But he didn't predate the founding of Houston.
All of the lyrics to the songs, except for "This Dream of You," were co written with Robert Hunter, and it is likely this collaboration helped lighten the mood. ("This Dream of You" is captivating & its music is haunting-- but it is on the sadder side of wistful.)
Another reviewer at Amazon noted that academics inclined to do so probably won't get too excited at "Together Through Life"'s lyrics. The words strike few ponderous, evasive, or menacing notes. But they're pretty good.
Some samples:
"In a cheerless room from a curtain gloom, I saw a star from heaven fall, I turned to look again, but it was gone."
"There's a moment when all old things become new again, but that moment might have come and gone,"
"The door has closed forevermore, if indeed there ever was a door."
How much better does Bob Dylan get? To me Bob Dylan's music gets more and more entertaining as time goes on.
I see the album as a concept album. The concept is that he's sung about Jesus, God,and the quest for the eternal through this world of folly and woe-- but people don't enjoy hearing about that stuff as much as they do the hard-knocks, bruises, and heartbreaks of this world. So, in this record he delivers a collection of tunes that people can tap their feet to and jump around and be merry as he celebrates people's brightest worldly hope and object of admiration-- romantic love. The kind that brings the world suddenly alive, or makes one long to end it all in a moment. And even some of the best love, it turns out, can be good for a laugh. The album opens with "Beyond Here Lies Nothing" (our love is about as good as it gets), somewhat in the mood of "Black Magic Woman" and ends with "It's All Good," which plays unholy havoc with the popular catch-phrase of tenderness for the world as it is. Between, the music is hypnotizing and the words very entertaining.
The amazing performances and musical ideas on this album rank among the best ever heard on a Dylan record. The use of the accordion, multiple guitars (one wafting plaintive Hawaiian-style guitar notes through "This Dream of You" and "Life is Hard), bass, mandolin, banjo, trumpet & drums is dazzling. (Violin also is in there it sounds to me.) I've never heard anything like it. It is some beautiful music. The bands that he has put together on his last couple of albums have been among the most accomplished ever assembled. The band on this album is not necessarily that much more skilled-- but they have lots of heart and they have been put to far better, more imaginative, use. (Which is saying a lot.) If it were an instrumental album sans Bob Dylan singing it would still be an engaging, enchanting album. The keyboards, which are credited to Dylan, figure in significantly to the overall sound.
There are a lot of nice touches. Dylan breaks out into laughter, chuckling, & perhaps even cackling at several places in the album. At about the album's close, nearing the last verse of of the send-out, "It's All Good," he lets out a hell-bent "Whoah!" In "Shake Shake Mama, the way he chuckles on hitting the last three words in "we could have some real fun" sounds like the fun has begun already. One notes, that given the surfeit of gloomy songs he's crooned (the kind that often are warmly welcomed in academia) a dash of laughter is a welcome sound.
For dancers of a certain type: there are some dynamite dance songs here. Starting with "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'."
"Together Through Life" did not pounce on me during the first few listens. I began a bit biased against it based on the blase near-dismissals of it that I had read. It did sound more like rock and roll record than any he'd made in awhile, which I thought was a point in its favor. Then on further listening I found a record that picks up where "Blonde on Blonde" left off. It's a fabulous record.
TweedleDum: "Uh...yeah...he's a songwriter, right?"
TweedleDee: "I guess he writes the songs, I think his main duty is leading his band. Sort of a bluesy, rootsy sort of thing..."
TweedleDum: "Huh? I thought...I mean... wasn't Bob Dylan the guy that wrote all those protest songs, and was the voice of a generation, and then died?"
TweedleDee: "Well, I don't know about any of that, I know he's been around for a while, but he can't be dead because he just released a new album called "Together Through Life"...it doesn't sound like its protest music...and the only generation this Bob Dylan could be a spokesperson for is the grizzled old barflies generation."
TweedleDum: "So, you're saying that this guy named Bob Dylan just released a new album as an old man. What are the songs about...re-living the glory years?"
TweedleDee: "I have no idea what the songs are about! I don't really care. I think they are just renditions of old standards or something...to be honest I don't think the lyrics are what this guy is about, I think Mr. Dylan is really just trying to create a genuine mood with his music; it is almost as if the sound of the music is more important than the actual songs. Kind of like Brian Eno...do you know who that is?"
TweedleDum: "Yeah, he is the guy that made the music that makes going to airports more comfortable."
TweedleDee: "Thats true. He also made installation-art music...music created to match the atmosphere or feeling of an object or place, like a museum, or, like you just mentioned, an airport. He even created music to identify the feelings and impressions invoked by images of the moon."
TweedleDum: "So, what are you trying to say?"
TweedleDee: "Well, if you went into a dive bar at 3:00 in the afternoon on a hot and muggy day, as stale smoke filled your nostrils and flies buzzed in your eyes, what would you expect to hear coming from the jukebox?"
TweedleDum: "Music"
TweedleDee: "Right, but what kind?"
TweedleDum: "Whatever they had on the jukebox."
TweedleDee: "Oh, Dummy, you don't get it. Aesthetically, there is a certain kind of music that would be more befitting of that scene than any other kind. Something American, something bluesy, rootsy, unrefined, speaking of heartbreak, wandering, and times gone by."
TweedleDum: "So this guy, Bob Dylan, released an album thats supposed to, as you say, "match the atmosphere" of a dirty dive-bar?"
TweedleDee: "Well, not technically. I don't know if that is what Dylan set out to do. But what has been created is something that, rather than tell you the story, creates the mood, the atmosphere, the setting of the story, with subtle personifications of the story in the form of lyrics. But more important is the sound created by the band. I think the producer, Jack Frost, has a lot to do with that aspect. This Jack Frost guy really knows how to distance the instruments from one another...he knows when to turn something down, how to make something sound raw, and how to create ambience out of five minute songs. Frost also produced the last few Dylan albums, they all seem to have this Americana-ambience, but nowhere near as fluid as on this album."
TweedleDum: "I guess what I'm putting together is that Dylan's band plays regular blues/rock songs and then this Frost character tweeks them to make them sound like something else? Something atmospheric?"
TweedleDee: "Well, thats not what I'm saying is happening on "Together Through Life", I am saying that is what I hear. A recording that sounds like the embodiment of American grit. The music that naturally accompanies a lonely drive, a hot summers day spent alone, listening to an old man talk about his life."
TweedleDum: "But, is Bob Dylan still writing songs?"
TweedleDee: "No. He is painting audio pictures."
Amazon's description of a five-star rating is that five-stars represents "loving" the product as opposed to "liking" it (four-star rating). After a week of repeated listening I can honestly say that I love Bob Dylan's "Together Through Life".
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il tutto è arrivato in perfette condizioni.
grande bob
内容は言うことなし。
ディランが多くの人に聴かれるのは良い事だと思う。