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''Together Through Life'' is the thirty-third studio album by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on April 28, 2009, by Columbia Records. The album debuted at number one in several countries, including the U.S. and the UK. It is Dylan's first number one in Britain since ''New Morning'' in 1970.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Bob Dylan Beats the Enemy to Number One )〕 Dylan wrote all but one of the album's songs with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, with whom he had previously co-written two songs on his 1988 album ''Down in the Groove''. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Dylan commented on the collaboration: “Hunter is an old buddy, we could probably write a hundred songs together if we thought it was important or the right reasons were there... He's got a way with words and I do too. We both write a different type of song than what passes today for songwriting.” The only other writer Dylan has ever collaborated with to such a degree is Jacques Levy, with whom he wrote most of the songs on ''Desire'' in 1976. Rumors of the album, reported in ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, came as a surprise, with no official press release until March 16, 2009—less than two months before the album's release date. Dylan produced the record under his pseudonym of Jack Frost, which he used for his previous two studio albums, ''Love and Theft'' and ''Modern Times''. The album was rumored to contain "struggling love songs" and have little similarity to ''Modern Times''.〔 In a conversation with music journalist Bill Flanagan, published on Bob Dylan's official website, Flanagan suggested a similarity of the new record to the sound of Chess Records and Sun Records, which Dylan acknowledged as an effect of "the way the instruments were played." He said that the genesis of the record was when French film director Olivier Dahan asked him to supply a song for his new road movie, ''My Own Love Song'', which became "Life is Hard" - indeed, 'according to Dylan, Dahan was keen to get a whole soundtrack's worth of songs from the man'〔Clinton Heylin, ''Behind the Shades: The 20th Anniversary Edition'' (London 2011) p. 837〕 - and "then the record sort of took its own direction." Dylan is backed on the album by his regular touring band, plus David Hidalgo of Los Lobos and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.〔 Dylan commented on Campbell's guitar work in his interview with Flanagan: “He's good with me. He's been playing with Tom for so long that he hears everything from a songwriter’s point of view and he can play most any style.” 〔(Beyond Here Lies Nothin' Songfacts )〕 "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" was available as a free download for one day on Monday, March 30, 2009, via Dylan's (official site ). "I Feel a Change Comin' On" was released for streaming on Monday, April 6 on The Times Online website, as well as the third installment of his interview with Bill Flanagan.〔Flanagan, Bill. ("Bob Dylan on Barack Obama, Ulysses Grant and American Civil War ghosts" )"Times Online", 2009-04-06. Retrieved on 2009-04-08〕 In the interview with Bill Flanagan, Dylan discusses the only known outtake to "Together Through Life", "Chicago After Dark". Apparently, this song was in the running to be on the album but was left off the final version, as Flanagan talks about the song as if it is on the album. The song is not circulating among collectors. The album received two Grammy Award nominations in Best Americana Album category and "Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance" category for "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'". The album also is significant as the only album by Dylan to top the US and UK charts consecutively. The album's cover photo is the same as that on the cover of American author Larry Brown's short story collection, ''Big Bad Love''. ==Sources and quotations== As with some of Dylan's albums before ''Together Through Life'', Dylan has adapted lyrics from other songs and incorporated them into his own lyrics—if with perhaps a 'slightly diminished use of the light-fingered lift', compared with 'Dylan's lyrical approach from recent albums'.〔Heylin, p. 838〕 The phrase "If you ever go to Houston, you better walk right" is taken from the folk song "Midnight Special": Dylan played harmonica on Harry Belafonte's 1962 recording of the song. 'The one time he overtly used someone else's song as a springboard for his own - Billy Joe Shaver's "Ain't No God in Mexico", a clear template for "I Feel a Change Comin' On" - he openly acknowledged the debt to historian Douglas Brinkley'.〔 Several lyrics in "Jolene" also originated in songs, including "Rolene," recorded on Mink DeVille's album ''Return to Magenta''.〔Goon Talk. ("Vive le Vol: Bob Dylan and the Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway." ) July 21, 2013. (Retrieved 9-19-2013.)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Together Through Life」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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