Friday, May 01, 2009

Album review: Bob Dylan's 'Together Through Life'

Bob Dylan’s latest album, “Together Through Life” (Columbia), is the work of an artist who knows exactly what he wants to say, and how. He makes art that sounds like a conversation, like friends gathered in a room swapping stories with words and music.

“Together Through Life” marks Dylan’s third self-produced studio release in a row recorded with his road band, each increasingly modest and low-key. Like its predecessors, “Modern Times” (2006) and “Love and Theft” (2001), it presents Dylan’s wreck of a voice in a remarkably warm light. Dylan can’t hit the notes – high, low or in-between – but it almost doesn’t matter.

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