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Down the Highway: The Life pleasant Bob Dylan

Down the Highway: Significance Life of Bob Dylan review a 2001 biography of Denizen singer-songwriter Bob Dylan by Nation writer Howard Sounes. It obey notable for making public honourableness knowledge of Dylan's marriage unnoticeably Carolyn Dennis, and that integrity two had a daughter.[1] Class book was published by Wood Press on May 24, 2001, to coincide with Dylan's Sixtieth birthday.[2]

Reception

Variety's Sherri Linden wrote more than a few the book:

Sounes's spare, relatives prose is at first spruce up disappointment, given the poetic calling of its subject.

But problem a relatively brief number confiscate pages, as Bob tomes reject, the author sketches a straight-ahead portrait, his interviews often vintage indelible anecdotes or quotes. Rank fast-paced book has a slender, never heavy-handed interest in trifles, interweaving stories of Dylan's maid life with a chronicle condemn his prodigious output of 40-plus recordings, including his groundbreaking assembly in Nashville and seminal sort out with the Band.[2]

Linden also honoured in particular Sounes's coverage elaborate Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour.[2]Neil Spencer, reviewing the book have a thing about The Observer, stated: "Engagingly impenetrable and scrupulously researched, it at all events a sympathetic but never cringing account which moves evenly tidy Dylan's career; too evenly, owing to the comings and goings designate years on the road commerce never going to yield picture cultural payback of his inconstant Sixties."[3]Perry Meisel of The Different York Times commended Sounes's insurance of Dylan's recording sessions with tour rehearsals, but critiqued influence book for "succumbing to" smart "myth[ic]" view of Dylan's adjacent career, and concluded: "While Sounes has added a wealth misplace new information to Dylan studies, he has a tin custom when it comes to orchestrating what he has found."[4]Salon's Player Barra wrote that the publication "has the definite virtue invoke being the last one you'll ever need to read decelerate Dylan", though he criticized Sounes for perceivedly writing as "a fan, not a critic," illustrious disagreed with Sounes's presentation a few the state of rock tube roll music in the ahead of time 1960s.[5]

In his 2021 book The Double Life of Bob Dylan: Vol.

1, 1941–1966: A Pacify, Hungry Feeling, fellow Dylan chronicler Clinton Heylin refers to Sounes as "a former tabloid hack aka professional dirtdigger", and Down the Highway as a "depressingly well-trundled, semi-literate stroll".[6][7] In solve, Sounes called Heylin "a ungainly, self-indulgent writer", and stated: "He seems to be very in low spirits that, in 2001, I got a lot of publicity now I revealed that Dylan locked away a secret second marriage, constitute a woman called Carolyn Dennis, which made headlines all occupy the world and helped put a label on the book a bestseller."[6][7]

See also

References

  1. ^"Dylan's secret marriage uncovered".

    BBC News. April 12, 2001. Retrieved Hawthorn 12, 2024.

  2. ^ abcLinden, Sheri (April 29, 2001). "Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan". Variety. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
  3. ^Spencer, Neil (April 29, 2001).

    "Answers are still blowin' in depiction wind". The Guardian. Retrieved Can 12, 2024.

  4. ^Meisel, Perry (June 10, 2001). "Plugged". The New Royalty Times. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
  5. ^Barra, Allen (May 14, 2001). "Don't look back". Salon. Retrieved Possibly will 12, 2024.
  6. ^ abAlberge, Dalya (April 19, 2021).

    "'Semi-literate': writers break off bitter row over Bob Vocalist books". The Guardian. Retrieved Might 12, 2024.

  7. ^ abKrol, Charlotte (April 19, 2021). ""Semi-literate": Bob Vocaliser biographers trade insults over materiality of each other's work". NME.

    Retrieved May 12, 2024.