Down The Highway - Softcover

"Engagingly written and scrupulously researched." (Observer)

"The benchmark by which all future Dylan biographies will be judged." (USA Today)

"Many writers have tried to probe [Dylan's] life, but never has it been done so well, and so captivatingly." (Boston Globe)

"Blows away more of the fog than anyone else has managed to do." (Barney Hoskyns Independent on Sunday)

"Sets a standard few rock'n'roll chronicles have attained." (Independent)

This new edition of Howard Sounes' classic and definitive biography of Bob Dylan now offers a new chapter that brings Dylan's story fully up to date for his seventieth birthday. First published to international critical acclaim in 2001, it gives a complete picture of the man as well as of the artist and performer. Based on in-depth original research,including hundreds of interviews with Dylan's closest associates, Down the Highway now also contains a fresh section covering the artist's most recent projects.

A compelling, engagingly fast-paced and revelatory life, it takes the reader on a journey from Dylan's childhood in a Minnesota mining town to the status he enjoys today as the leading poet-troubadour of popular song, and one of the most iconic figures of contemporary culture.