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Together Through Life – Bob Dylan

He maybe hitting the septuagenarian decade in a couple of years from now, it still doesn’t feel as if Bob Dylan is old. Part of the reason for this could be the fact that he has always been worldly wise with that grim roughed out voice of his which have sung verses filled with truths of life hardly ever seen in that perspective. ‘Together Through Life’ therefore comes as no surprise. Dylan gets back to working with old time chum Robert Hunter, the essential Jerry Garcia companion, who helped the Grateful Dead pen some of their most memorable lyrics. The natural affinity present between the canvas of work created by both Dylan and Hunter individually serves to just make this coming together work like magic. There may not be much in terms of instrumentation; what you listen to are standard bluesman songs, but then each of them is played to perfection on lyrics which make you realize why Dylan is still the modern man’s Bard. Love, that ephemeral feeling, the companionship of which is what helps you go through life – Dylan realizes and eulogizes this in words like no one else could.