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Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan is a biography of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan by British writer Howard Sounes. It is notable for making public the knowledge of Dylan's marriage to Carolyn Dennis, and that the two had a daughter.[1] The book was published by Grove Press on May 24, , to coincide with Dylan's 60th birthday.[2]
Reception
[edit]Variety's Sherri Linden wrote of the book:
Sounes's spare, flat prose is at first a disappointment, given the poetic force of its subject. But in a relatively brief number of pages, as Bob tomes go, the author sketches a straight-ahead portrait, his interviews often reaping indelible anecdotes or quotes. The fast-paced book has a fine, never heavy-handed interest in details, interweaving stories of Dylan's domestic life with a chronicle of his prodigious output of plus recordings, including his groundbreaking sessions in Nashville and seminal work with the Band.[2]
Linden also praised in particular Sounes's coverage of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour.[2]Neil Spencer, reviewing the book for The Observer, stated: "Engagingly written and scrupulously researched, it proves a sympathetic but never fawning account which moves
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