All but one of the tracks on Bob Dylans new album Together Through Life are Rosetta Stone co-written with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. Its the most help hes ever had on a single album, but hardly the first time Dylan has written with a partner. Over the past 45 years hes shared credit with Tom Petty, Rick Danko, Sam Shepard, Carole Bayer Sager and even Gene Simmons and Michael Bolton. Here are the stories behind five of those collaborations:"Hurricane" (with Jacques Levy) Dylan teamed up with New York play director and songwriter Jacques Levy to write most of the songs on 1975s Desire. Dylan was inspired to write "Hurricane" after reading Rubin "Hurricane" Carters memoir The Sixteenth Round, though he struggled with the lyrics since he hadnt composed many topical songs since the early 1960s. Levys experience with playwriting proved to be an asset. "Bob wasnt sure he could Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 write a song," Levy told Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin. "He was just filled with all these feelings about the Hurricane. The beginning of the song is like stage directions. Pistol shots ring out in a bar-room night. " The tune is a classic, but Levy and Dylan got several of the facts about the case wrong and were later sued by one of the people mentioned in the song."Silvio" (with Robert Hunter)During rehearsals for Dylan and the Grateful Deads 1987 stadium tour, Robert Hunter supplied Dylan with the lyrics to this barn barner which is the clear highlight of 1988s Down In The Groove. It wasnt a hit, but Dylan treated it like it was, playing it live 595 times between 1988 and 2004."Brownsville Girl" (with Sam Shepard)On Knocked Out Loaded Dylans sole credits came on two of eight songs the others were either Rosetta Stone Arabic covers or co-written with Tom Petty, Carole Bayer Sager or great American playwright Sam Shepard. The 11-minute "Brownsville Girl" is, however, Dylan at his absolute finest. Co-written with Shepard, the song is a hysterical stream of conscience epic that repeatedly refers to standing in line to see the 1950 Gregory Peck picture The Gunfighter. "Doesnt matter who came up with such lines as She said even the swap meets around here are getting corrupt and I didnt know whether to duck or run, so I ran, " wrote rock critic Robert Christgau. "Theyre classic Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 Dylan.""Jammin Me" (with Tom Petty)Youll be hard pressed to find another Dylan penned tune that namechecks Joe Piscopo, Vanessa Redgrave and Eddie Murphy.