On his latest groundbreaking album (1997), Bob Dylan was perhaps the first artist rooted in the 1960s to dare to talk about aging. Growing flaws, disillusionment and the approaching death were until then taboos in pop and rock music and you will still not encounter with contemporaries like and (feigning eternal youth) . After Dylan seemed to have dealt with this, he returned to his youth, almost
… changed, with albums that include blues, early rock 'n' roll and music. For example, in Together Through Life he quotes blues composer musically in Beyond Here Lies Nothing (Who's Been Talkin ') and My Wife's Hometown (I Just Want To Make Love To You). Aided by the melancholy accordion playing of David Hildago (Los Lobos) and the mandolin of , there are also cautious texmex influences. But with his almost unearthly gurgling and raspy voice and primary, sulking and illusionless lyrics, the almost seventy-year-old Dylan keeps the atmosphere above all dark. Again a record full of dignified old man music. (MR)more
