“Sounes’s book has the definite virtue of being the last one you’ll ever need to read about Dylan.” - Salon “ offers information that, in sheer quantity, supersedes prior accounts.” - The New York Times Book Review It’s the kind of thing Sounes does well, opening new angles on the enigmatic polyhedron that is Dylan.” - The Nation pieces together testimony and circumstantial evidence into a fairly detailed account of Dylan’s wreck. “Sounes produced fascinating and finely written account of Dylan’s life and times, while managing at the same time to provide interesting evaluations of his music and cultural contribution.” - The New Republic “Many writers have tried to probe life, but never has it been done so well, and so captivatingly.” -Steve Morse, The Boston Globe Candid, refreshing, and written with a sincere appreciation of Dylan’s music and influence, Down the Highway is an essential book for the millions of people who have enjoyed Dylan’s music over the years. He gives inside accounts of the tours, the creation of every album and the most celebrated songs, Dylan’s labyrinthine love life, his life-threatening heart illness in 1997, and more-directly from interviews with girlfriends, family, friends, producers, concert promoters, and fellow musicians. He has obtained exclusive information to provide the clearest picture yet of Dylan’s 1966 motorcycle accident and subsequent “lost years” in Woodstock, New York, and he uncovered the star’s unknown second marriage. His is the only biography to seriously address the past twenty years of Dylan’s life, leading up to the extraordinary recent releases Time Out of Mind and Love and Theft.

Sounes’s prodigious research has resulted in new insights on every aspect of Dylan’s life. This book makes us realize now, while he’s still with us, how valuable he has been to our culture these last forty years.”

from young upstart to grand old man of rock ‘n’ roll. It was praised by The Orlando Sentinel for the insights it offers to Dylan at work. Based on three years of research, new documentary evidence, and interviews with 250 of Dylan’s intimates-many exclusive- Down the Highway has gone beyond the scope of other accounts to become the most complete, authoritative biography of Bob Dylan now in print.

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