A review by pgsweetdee
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes

3.0

Just like Dylan's career, this biography started strong, particularly in recounting the Dylan of his youth and especially of the 60's. By the time we got to the 80s and 90s, the biography had devolved, re-telling some of the same character traits and recounting every change in Dylan's backing band, little better than a Wikipedia page. However, unlike Dylan's career, which has had a modest but significant and sustained upswing for decades now, the book's last couple chapters continued to demonstrate a significant decline in the writing quality from those earlier, stronger sections. I did walk away feeling like I knew a famously enigmatic pop culture icon better, but felt a little bored by the process.