New Bob Dylan Album "Fallen Angels" Soon, With Japan/US tour

I'm curious about his Japanese fan following. He's got 16 shows lined up at different concert halls in Japan! Do they really love him over there? I'm curious how his music effects them.

was over there recently, loved the posters for the tour in the metro, very red dead redemption

yeah seems like he's got a pretty serious japanese fanbase.
looks as though mavis staples is opening the US dates? Think I'll go to the red rocks show ...

So any news on what kind of album this is?

He and Mavis Staples and playing Ravinia (similar to Tanglewood, etc.) this summer.

rumors are that the new one is a sequel to shadows in the night

I hope so!

Didn't know he'd be at Ravinia with Mavis, what a great bill. I'm seeing her again next week, but that seems like the way to go.

Dylan gets ideas from Japan, remember:

On his last album, “Love and Theft,” a fan spotted about a dozen passages similar to lines from “Confessions of a Yakuza,” a gangster novel written by Junichi Saga, an obscure Japanese writer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/arts/music/14dyla.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0

rumors are that the new one is a sequel to shadows in the night

― tylerw, Monday, March 7, 2016 10:03 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so more covers? :/

yeah that's no good

i think it's ok! i really like shadows in the night ... maybe not as exciting as an album of originals but the dude has written a lot of songs.

no, i need more

All mel torme this time

here's this record store day single that has a few tracks from the upcoming album
http://www.recordstoreday.com/Photo/418457278796:284

i did like shadows, it was good! i just want more new songs

TBH i kinda want Dylan to "blow it up" a bit and ditch everything, feel like he's in a rut....too many blues vamps with hardly any changes, maybe get a new band, new producer or something

i actually feel the same way about The Fall lately

though I would like The Fall to do a Sinatra covers album

dylan and mark e smith could switch bands

that would be dope actually

can obama do an executive order on his way out?

he's going to announce it during his sxsw address, along with a decree commanding a husker du reunion

speaking of record store day, definitely gonna wake up early to get the dylan and this ethan hawke single
https://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_thumbnails/534/418457259534/418457259534%3A360.jpg

Yeah, I'd like him to roll out something differently, unexpectedly customized, but meanwhile, and back in the day, like I said in P & J, "Love and Theft is the best Tom Waits album ever", which still seems about right, and Shadows In The Night certainly works as an empathetic Sinatra homage---but at the same time, they're both Dylany as hell, and not in self-imitative ways.
Make of this what you will.
Oh yeah, and speaking of Shadows, "Why Try To Change Me Now" is by Cy Coleman, a songwriter's-songwriter-type Broadway guy, who lived and worked well into the 60a, maybe 70s, but never ever went rock---yet somewhere I still have a promo of a Cy Coleman tribute by this-century-active rock etc. artists, and it's pretty damn edutaining, if I remember half-way right; gotta find that.

Oh yeah, here it is:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/The_Best_Is_Yet_to_Come_The_Songs_of_Cy_Coleman.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Is_Yet_to_Come:_The_Songs_of_Cy_Coleman

Look who does "Why Try To Change Me Now"---tellin' it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2xBaX5awlc

this is great

Definitely excited for the album.

who is playing guitar on that?

think it's charlie sexton? could be the other guitarist in his band, blanking on his name ...

sounds great, happy it seems to be going for a different vibe than Stadows (which was great, but I'm always curious to hear something new)

some interesting recent additions to Tidal's Dylan catalogue:

http://i.imgur.com/WmYU3xq.png
the Tom Petty one is 2 hours 40 mins

N1 "Stadows."

tidal in the bootleg biz...

info from Amazon (which also says Shadows got to #7 in US Top 10, and that this is #1 in their Folk sales):

Track Listings

1. Young At Heart
2. Maybe You'll Be There
3. Polka Dots And Moonbeams
4. All The Way
5. Skylark
6. Nevertheless
7. All or Nothing at All
8. On a Little Street in Singapore
9. It Had to be You
10. Melancholy Mood
11. That Old Black Magic
12. Come Rain or Come Shine

Product Details
Audio CD (May 20, 2016)
Original Release Date: May 20, 2016
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Columbia
Run Time: 38 minutes

tidal in the bootleg biz...

― tylerw, Friday, April 8, 2016 9:00 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait, do you mean that lovin' bob album isn't an approved release?!?!

Wow, that voice is a strange blend of his 70s narrative singing and his desiccated, spectral 21st century tones. He must have rested up from touring before the sessions.

damn first time i've wanted a tidal account

Loving Bob is the new Life of Pablo

Wow, that voice is a strange blend of his 70s narrative singing and his desiccated, spectral 21st century tones. He must have rested up from touring before the sessions.

― MatthewK, Monday, April 11, 2016 8:14 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i saw speculation somewhere that he kicked smoking between tempest and shadows, it's the only reasonable explanation for his voice suddenly improving after so many years of declining

maybe bob just vapes now

and speaking of speculation, rumors are-a-flying that his recent studio sessions were for an entirely different album made up of "mostly original contemporary songs"
http://stephenkpeeples.com/news-and-reviews/bob-dylan-fallen-angels-tracks-from-same-sessions-as-shadows-in-the-night/#.Vwv9LhMrLEa

Loving Bob appears to be another collection of early-60's loose ends :/

maybe bob just vapes now

― tylerw, Monday, April 11, 2016 3:36 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Basement Vapes

So, I turned on the radio last night, heard what I sure thought might be an advance track from Fallen Angels---turned ot it was by Freddie Cole, brother of Nat. Will have to check more of his stuff.

the first time he quit smoking:

WENNER: I’m sure you read the reviews of “Nashville Skyline.” Everybody remarks on the change of your singing style...

DYLAN: Well Jann, I’ll tell you something. There’s not too much of a change in my singing style, but I’ll tell you something which is true... I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn’t believe it myself. That’s true. I tell you, you stop smoking those cigarettes (laughter)... and you’ll be able to sing like Caruso.

haha

i love that interview. they should do a sequel so dylan can troll jann some more.

i sort of hope this is going to be like good as i've been to you/world gone wrong, where 2 covers albums serve as the jumping off point for a new era for dylan...as much as i've loved the post love & theft era, i think it's been great, i felt on tempest it was starting to tire, esp. the bluesier numbers where they would literally just ride on riff & a turnaround for like 5 minutes (which works for lungfish but hey)

yeah, i like tempest, but there is definitely a kinda reined in feeling instrumentally ... i think one of the songs might even be a loop? can't remember.
will be interesting to see if he has any new tricks up his sleeve. not even sure what i'd like him to do. maybe something with his piano to the fore? he plays it so much live these days.

just something that has a little more movement in terms of chord changes and melody, like a good example might be "workingman's blues #2" off modern times, i think he could sing this song better now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPPbQexwTR4

The last two tracks aside, think most of Tempest aims to prove he ain't mellow, and succeeds---"So much," he sneers, "for the wasted years." Still growlin' at his old lady, though maybe there's been enough offstage "answer songs" that he figured shifting to classy covers was the better part of valor, for a while. But he's still the old soldier of love and theft, slogging through the moonlight. But yeah, hope this portends at least a stylistic shift in forthcoming albums of originals, like the country blues collections did, good call.

good observations itt!

It's out

just look what you'll derive from being alive

Heard it on the npr first listen thing. I like some of it

A recent show, appealingly described: not all from the Sinatroid albums, but lots.
http://nodepression.com/live-review/bob-dylan-sings-sinatra-chateau-ste-michelle-woodinville-washington

album seems to be generating next to no interest... can't say I've heard it more than twice myself, which is the first Dylan alb released on my watch that's happened to... I'll get around to it eventually, concerts sound nice

I can't get excited about this.