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Product Description Veteran journalist and critic Chris Morris looks back at his intense half-century-long relationship with the music of Bob Dylan, viewing the role the singer-songwriter's work has played in his own life. A candid album-by-album exploration of Dylan's catalog through 2016's "Fallen Angels" examines the powerful personal impact of the musician's art. In 2013, Morris - the former music editor of The Hollywood Reporter and a longtime senior writer at Billboard - hit a psychological roadblock as he worked on his book Los Lobos: Dream in Blue (ultimately published in 2015 by the University of Texas Press). Hoping to get his writing flowing again, he turned to the music of Bob Dylan, whose album catalog had recently been collected in a boxed-set edition, and published his thoughts as posts on the blog site Tumblr. It quickly became apparent to the writer and to his readers that the posts were something more than a critical reconsideration of Dylan's music. Morris writes. "The pieces were not about Dylan and they were not about me; they were about Dylan and me. I found myself reconsidering my past through these records. Where was I when this came out? How old was I? Where was I living? Who was I with? Was I in love? Was I happy? Miserable? Crazy? Was I high? Where was I working? What was my state of mind? How did the music affect me? In some cases the pieces were coolly measured (though never impersonal); in others I found myself plunging into places within me that I hadn't visited for years. I was retrieving a portion of my life, which I had spent almost all of in the company of Bob Dylan's music." Here, Dylan's music is explored album by album, from his 1962 debut as a folksinger to his 2015-16 explorations of the Classic American songbook; the creative highs and lows of his entire 37-title discography are examined. But Morris' take on Dylan's music doesn't merely weigh the quality of the work - it reveals how a gifted artist's creations have the power to engage, incite, alter, and even rescue a listener over the course of a lifetime. Together Through Life occupies a unique space in the vast bibliography of Bob Dylan books. Review Chris Morris's approach is founded on informed passion. As a longtime respected music writer...he knows way more about music than most humans, and throughout the book shares enough facts to frame the story neatly into the context of Dylan's career. But he also brings real passion. Instead of an objective book about Dylan and his history (which has already been done countless times), we get this journey through all of Dylan's albums, from the first onward. Each is wrapped around Morris' feelings concerning each album and their station in his life, colored by the often dark, raw realities of his personal passage. -- Paul Zollo, author of Songwriters on Songwriting, in American Songwriter I can't think of a better guide through the brilliant, complicated and sometimes baffling career of Bob Dylan than Chris Morris. His wise, wild, personal, and often funny takes on Mr. Dylan's gargantuan recorded history are guaranteed to enlighten, inspire and start an argument or two. -- Dave Alvin Too many Bob Dylan books have been written with no emotional connection to the songs; too few have been written by those who heard each album as they were released. At its best, Chris Morris' writing achieves what only Dylanologist Paul Williams did before him: It focuses on the songs rather than the man and brings a personal connection that draws the reader closer. The intertwining of Dylan's best records with the highs and lows of Morris' personal life made me chuckle and cry with empathy. An essential slice of Dylan-based lit. -- Pat Thomas, author of Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 & Did it! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary. One of the best music writers of my lifetime. -- Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone contributing writer and author of Shot in the Heart
