“Fascinating and finely written.… The strength of [Down the Highway] is to penetrate behind the music so as to provide a sense of [Dylan’s] life.”
—The New Republic
“Wonderfully surprising.”
—The New York Review of Books
“With little sensationalism, the inscrutable and intensely private Dylan is dissected, measured, and categorized.”
—Esquire
“Many writers have tried to probe [Dylan’s] life, but never has it been done so well, and so captivatingly.”
—The Boston Globe
“Sounes appears to know every nuance of every track Dylan has ever recorded—and the inspirations for famous songs.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“Irresistible … What Dylanphile wouldn’t want to sift through what Sounes has dug up?”
—Detroit Free Press
“Sounes … open[s] new angles on the enigmatic polyhedron that is Dylan.”
—The Nation
“Magnificently realized.”
— Mojo
“Sounes’s book has the definite virtue of being the last one you’ll ever need to read about Dylan.”
—Salon.com
“[Down the Highway] must stand as the definitive work…. [and] the best psychological profile anyone is likely to produce for some time.”
—St. Paul Pioneer Press
“By far the best Bob Dylan biography.”
—Rock & Rap Confidential
“[This] fast-paced book has a fine interest in details [and is] rich with the observations of new witnesses.”
—Variety
“The music book of the year…. [Sounes‘] meticulously researched book (drawing on 250 original interviews) is the most persuasive portrait of Bob Dylan—the teenage Robert Allen Zimmerman’s invention—ever presented.”
—Uncut