Separately through life

Music scholar and Dylan expert Michael Gray has finally commented on Together Through Life, and it turns out he likes it even less than I did. In fact, I’ve come to think my own comment on the disc may have been a little too forgiving. Since Gray has just wrapped up his speaking tour “Bob Dylan & The Poetry of the Blues,” which kept him marinated in Dylan’s best work for an extended period, it’s a wonder he didn’t get the bends while making repeated trips between the pressurized creativity of Dylan’s peaks and the lightweight doodling of these recent discs.