this one is apparently on the album (which has been pushed back to early 2015)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceosVcHvuvEi like it!
― tylerw, Friday, 31 October 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
Wishing that was a Faces cover.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 31 October 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
A Dylan-obsessed cinephile friend tells me it's the theme from Otto Preminger's The Cardinal.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 31 October 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
And yeah, it's beautiful. Can't wait for the record.
I can't read the thread/album title without thinking of this:
But, the thing was, there’s a lyric on the song where Bob sings, “The leaves cast their shadows on the stones,” and, when he was singing it live, he was reading his lyrics off a piece of paper, and, I guess, for a split-second, he got dyslexic, because on the live take, he actually sang, “The leaves cast their stadows on the stones.” So, the only time I did any editing on that song, was when I heard this word “stadows” go by, I knew he meant shadows, because I had the lyric sheet in front of me. So, when I tried a remix, I took the vocal, and I found a “sh” from somewhere else, and I chopped the “st” out and put that in, so he was singing “shadows,” y’know. And Bob was listening to all these mixes, and he kept saying, “Nah, man, I really wanna use that rough mix.” Finally, I said, “Well, you know, on the rough mix, you don’t sing ‘shadows,’ you sing, ‘stadows.” And he took a long hit on his cigarette, and he kind of looked at me deadpan, and he went, “Well, you know:‘stadows.’”
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 31 October 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
lol yeah, love that story. he's playing tomorrow night in denver and i'm feeling like a jerk for not getting at ticket... pretty pricey though.
― tylerw, Friday, 31 October 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
looks like it's official: http://www.bobdylan.com/us/news/new-album-shadows-night-out-feb-3
Columbia Records announced today that Bob Dylan's new studio album, Shadows In The Night, will be released on February 3, 2015. Featuring ten tracks, the Jack Frost-produced album is the 36th studio set from Bob Dylan and marks the first new music from the artist since 2012’s worldwide hit Tempest.
Upon Columbia’s announcement of the album’s forthcoming release, Bob Dylan commented, “It was a real privilege to make this album. I've wanted to do something like this for a long time but was never brave enough to approach 30-piece complicated arrangements and refine them down for a 5-piece band. That's the key to all these performances. We knew these songs extremely well. It was all done live. Maybe one or two takes. No overdubbing. No vocal booths. No headphones. No separate tracking, and, for the most part, mixed as it was recorded. I don't see myself as covering these songs in any way. They've been covered enough. Buried, as a matter a fact. What me and my band are basically doing is uncovering them. Lifting them out of the grave and bringing them into the light of day.”
As Columba Records Chairman Rob Stringer explains, “There are no strings, obvious horns, background vocals or other such devices often found on albums that feature standard ballads. Instead, Bob has managed to find a way to infuse these songs with new life and contemporary relevance. It is a brilliant record and we are extremely excited to be presenting it to the world very soon.”
SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT TRACK LISTING:
1. I'm A Fool To Want You 2. The Night We Called It A Day 3. Stay With Me 4. Autumn Leaves 5. Why Try to Change Me Now 6. Some Enchanted Evening 7. Full Moon And Empty Arms 8. Where Are You? 9. What'll I Do 10. That Lucky Old Sun
― tylerw, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
obvious horns
― mizzell, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
obvious 5 horns
we've been jamming the Christmas album so I'm stoked for this one, hoping for a related vibe
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 9 December 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
should've called the album NIGHT OF THE LIVING SINATRA w/ a zombie Frank on the cover.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
this is such an awesome move. like it smacks of just acting on impulse to me. rad as hell.
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
My most anticipated release of 2015. I love the Christmas record and I expect this'll sound a lot like it.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
well, most anticipated after The Feelies.
So glad to hear this will feature stripped-down arrangements. And despite the fact that his voice has been shot for years, Dylan can still croon pretty well when he wants to. Expecting something similar to "Return to Me" from the Sopranos soundtrack.
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/1012933_1000745106609325_3787896402328852938_n.jpg?oh=2f5abb8ce8a7223eabfe148277a4f7e5&oe=5506C8E8&__gda__=1426673716_4d49b5dbb9e90eb472ca6c7f53592bbe
― WilliamC, Friday, 19 December 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
Shut up is that real??
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 December 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
Unfortunately no. Drew Friedman posted it on FB this morning, and is doing a limited edition print of it (not in the album cover setting, just the art).
― WilliamC, Friday, 19 December 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
I so wish that was real.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 19 December 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
Seriously! Maybe Dylan will see it and say "hey wait a minute, scrap whatever we had planned before."
― WilliamC, Friday, 19 December 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
bob dylan's phlegm sings the frank sinatra songbook
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 19 December 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
love the blonde on blonde vibe
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Friday, 19 December 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
lengthy, pretty excellent interview ... in AARP Magazine! http://www.aarp.org/entertainment/style-trends/info-2015/bob-dylan-aarp-magazine.html?intcmp=AE-HP-ALRT-BAR-BOBDYLAN
― tylerw, Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
Very cool! Bob's surprisingly political here.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 22 January 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/iwuBSa4.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 22 January 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
I love that AARP magazine now looks like an old issue of SPIN.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 22 January 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
that was one of the better dylan interviews i've read in a while
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
"Dylan's Greatest Hats" lol
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
xp Ditto, and Dylan seemed to dig it, too. "You actually asked me about music!"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
dylan's greatest hats killed me because they got most of the years wrong. give me a break.
― tylerw, Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
Ooh I'm going to see if my dad has this issue yet when I swing by there tonight
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
"you can have it when i'm done with this tony danza interview, son"
― tylerw, Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
man i saw don jon recently and danza is fucking ripped
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
Total strike out, I guess my dad last month decided "why am I paying 15 bucks a yr for this?" and canceled his subscription.:(
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 23 January 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link
still the voice of his generation
― Brad C., Friday, 23 January 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
For once it's Bob following Bruce's lead: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/09/23/health/boss_250.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 January 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link
By the way, how is it Bob Dylan has never named an album "The New Dylan?"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 January 2015 15:13 (nine years ago) link
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― tylerw, Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:53 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Has anyone ever done the Elton John joke?
― Mark G, Friday, 23 January 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
hold me closer?
― tylerw, Friday, 23 January 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
mm hmm
― Mark G, Friday, 23 January 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
not a bad interview, but at his age he sort of ends up relating the same anecdotes and opinions for the 23,000th time
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 23 January 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
"did i ever tell you what fats domino meant to me as a kid?"
Telegraph loves it. Don't know the author though.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/bob-dylan/11366536/Bob-Dylan-Shadows-in-The-Night-review-extraordinary.html
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:37 (nine years ago) link
Here's the full 9,000 word version of the AARP interview:
http://www.aarp.org/entertainment/style-trends/info-2015/bob-dylan-aarp-the-magazine-full-interview.print.html
― Brad C., Tuesday, 3 February 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20190-shadows-in-the-night/
Deusner says, in part:
Shadows in the Night may pose some compelling questions for the Bobophiles who scrutinize every line and every word of every Dylan song, but for the more casual, less obsessive listener, it can be a bit of a snooze. The songs are well chosen and certainly revealing, but Dylan and his band play them all pretty much the same, sacrificing any sense of rhythm for stately ambience. Once they strike a mood on opener "I’m a Fool to Want You", they never stray from it. That gives Shadows a distinctive identity in Dylan’s catalog, but it also has a leveling effect. Each song hits the same tempo and strikes the same tone, so that swoon quickly turns somnambulant. As the album progresses, the songs sound more and more emotionally muted, as though this style of American pop songwriting was good only for providing ruminative ambience rather than sophisticated humor, feisty insight, or infectious rhythm. Say what you want about Sinatra, but at least the man could swing.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
Sounds like he's never actually listened to those slow bummer Sinatra records.
It's a great record. But I loved the Theme Time Radio Hour shows and the Christmas record. This is squarely in that wheelhouse.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
he's not wrong about the overall uniformity of the arrangements, but like that approach -- really enjoyed this on my first listen.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
but I like that approach, is what i meant
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
It’s an idea seemingly as weird as his phlegmy Christmas album
yea there is really nothing weird about dylan doing this album at all! ez snappin otm, this is totally in line with theme time radio hour, it's all part of the dylan picture
― marcos, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link
I don't get the insistence on how Weird This Is. The guy's been covering the songbook in concerts and rehearsals for at least 30 years.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
If he'd done this immediately after Highway 61, THAT would've been genuinely weird. But what Alfred said: Dylan's never made a secret of loving (and covering) standards.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 3 February 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Well, he's got Bob Lefsetz on his side, so...
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 8 February 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
He also takes on two ILM sacred cows, ABBA and Steeely Dan. I don't think he's a fan of them being in the rock and roll hall of fame.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 8 February 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
The song choices were confounding. A track from “Saved”? Another from “Oh Mercy”? Even the most dedicated Dylanologist would not only be disappointed, but would struggle to know the lyrics of these obscurities.
so what kind of Dylan fan would you be if you didn't applaud these choices?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 February 2015 17:40 (nine years ago) link
Kiki from Brooklyn, NY comments in the nytimes:
"Dylan was always just himself."I strongly disagree. Robert Zimmerman has NEVER been himself in public, always appearing in character as Bob Dylan, and, really, that has been a key to his greatness. He plays the character of an idealized, oracular, mysterious poet, ever speaking truth in riddles and indirection. He has acted in movies, but he only plays the Bob Dylan character. He plays is so well, that most people don't even realize he's in character all the time when he's in public. I'm sure if we'd known the inside details of the middle class kid from Hibbing, or the details of where his lyrics came from, it would diminish our ability to take the character seriously. I suspect that there is a highly analytical and ambitious man behind the character, but we'll probably never know.
― calstars, Sunday, 8 February 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
Sam Cooke said this when told he had a beautiful voice: He said, "Well that's very kind of you, but voices ought not to be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth." Think about that the next time you [inaudible].
i just died laughing at this
― example (crüt), Sunday, 8 February 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
Kiki otm
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 8 February 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link
Right. It's not like the clear demarcation between, say, Jim and Iggy.
many lols, especially at
"Y'know I never cared what people thought of my tunes but I gotta say everyone who dug me was outstanding and everyone who didn't was ok at best."― da croupier, Saturday, February 7, 2015 2:05 PM (4 days ago)
― da croupier, Saturday, February 7, 2015 2:05 PM (4 days ago)
― Up the Junction Boulevard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:52 (nine years ago) link
I don't find this boring. I just want more. I'm glad that a Rogers & Hammerstein tune gets play, and I've always been a fan of 'Lucky Old Sun.' Frankie Laine due for some sort of revival. There's something so chill about this album. I had it shuffled with a Buddy Guy antholgoy and the new Father John Misty and it sort of felt like some sort of cranky-classy mdidle ground.
― the captain beefheart of personal hygiene (soda), Thursday, 12 February 2015 02:04 (nine years ago) link
I want more score-settling with fellow musicians for perceived slights.
― Up the Junction Boulevard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 February 2015 02:12 (nine years ago) link
Dylan needs to do series of McConaughey-style car ads were he throws other musicians out of said cars.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 February 2015 02:29 (nine years ago) link
Merle Haggard just knows what you needBut Buck Owens knows what you want
― Up the Junction Boulevard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 February 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link
follow up to the musicares speechwww.bobdylan.com/news/conversation-bill-flanagan
― tylerw, Friday, 13 February 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
or:Holland-Dozier-Holland said Bob Dylan was just an illusion but Bill "Smokey" Robinson said his talent was growing, like the size of a fish that a man claims broke his reel, and we know who America's greatest living poet was, don't we?
― Up the Junction Boulevard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 February 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
(xp obv) thanks for link for weekend reading
― Up the Junction Boulevard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 February 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
Bob Dylan has second album of standards, says Daniel Lanois
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 08:25 (nine years ago) link
stadowing e-40 on the day shift
― j., Tuesday, 3 March 2015 08:36 (nine years ago) link
I'll take another volume. I love this one.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
yeah i think it said early on that he had recorded something upwards of 22 tracks... yeah, i'll take another volume, I'm really enjoying this album. wonder if the stuff he left off of Shadows is different in tone or the same general mellow vibe. new noir-y video (starring robert davi!)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOxy_hy22CA
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
good video, needs more davi
― adam, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
god, both dylan and davi look like they're in warren beatty's dick tracy, but they don't actually need a bunch of makeup/prosthetics
― tylerw, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
still laughing at that video, especially bob's period-appropriate hair styling
kind of violent though (again)
― Brad C., Tuesday, 3 March 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link
still disappointed this isn't called Stadows in the Night
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 17:40 (nine years ago) link
what do you mean, it is
― j., Tuesday, 3 March 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
I thought it was Saddos in the Night
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
This is a pretty cool performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=157&v=u_djZiswcrQ
― niels, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 09:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah sounded great... he added autumn leaves to his set on the most recent neverending tour jaunt.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
man he looks spooked tho, give the man a guitar to at least hold or something
― j., Thursday, 21 May 2015 05:17 (nine years ago) link
This is my most played record of 2015 thus far. I truly adore it.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 5 October 2015 22:41 (eight years ago) link
I guess I should get around to listening to it. The only post-2000 Dylan albums I don't own are this one and the Christmas one.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 01:42 (eight years ago) link
It's a great record for late night listening
gave it a spin sunday and lots of tunes now stuck in my head
― niels, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 08:34 (eight years ago) link
RUMORS!!!!!!!Bob Dylan's next album is called "Fallen Angels." Four-song 7" is coming out for Japanese tour and Record Store Day. Side A: Melancholy Mood, All or Nothing at All. Side B: Come Rain or Come Shine, That Old Black Magic.
― tylerw, Friday, 26 February 2016 17:28 (eight years ago) link
Cool! Forgot to paste this, from Rolling Country 2015 & Nashville Scene ballot comments (now archived on thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com)Bob Dylan's Shadows In The Night tracks a worn but sometimes surprisingly poised, limber, white-bluesy growl---in effect like the later Sinatra's shrewd conservation and investment of remaining resources (look for the 1980s cable concert from Wolf Trap, for inst) through the moonlight, with acoustic bass and steel guitar navigating, Cap'n D always at the wheel. The romantic ritualism could just seem like the "elaborate sentimentality" tag twhich young Nik Cohn applied in passing, but this is the sound of conviction, beyond excuses for getting wasted: the opener, "I'm a Fool To Want You" is spooked realization--this time is like the first time, and now he can't shake the chil. Ditto matter how many times those "Autumn Leaves" have drifted by, and how mellow the sadness they can bring, he dreads the the sign of their coming once more(oops, spoiler, but I never noticed the dramatic climax written in before, maybe because I never listened to the end before, so give the grizzled tones more points for that).And love songs can be like work songs here---another old-school country association---nevertheless, somehow he gets into a drift that gradually spins him around, in his spacey, autumn leafy way---"I go away for the weekend, and leave my keys in the door"---which leads to a happier realization, "I've always been your clown"---happier because, hey "Why try to change me now." He enjoys the quest, the cruise, the growlin' prowl in the blue moonlight (and shadows, yes)! So the second half reflects this, at least 'til "That Lucky Ol' Sun" flips the light on: more work ahead, but he sounds ready for it, even if complaining and jealous of the Sun (can't get too happy, or it wouldn't be country).
― dow, Friday, 26 February 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
"Elaborate sentimentality" tag which young Nik Cohn applied in passing to country music as a whole; in his 60s collection Rock From The Beginning, AKA A Whop-Bop-A-Loo-Bop-A-Lop-Bam-Boom and maybe other titles.
― dow, Friday, 26 February 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
Sounds cool, is it presumably outtakes from Stadows sessions?
― niels, Saturday, 27 February 2016 12:42 (eight years ago) link
is this out or what?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBbyRmtFrcg
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
was a RSD thing right? album is out in a couple weeks, i think.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link
was just checking out a recent show: http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=2855
― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 20:52 (eight years ago) link
http://exclaim.ca/images/16worst.jpg
^^mentioned in a "worst covers of 2016" listicle... gotta say, it is very uninspired...
― niels, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 16:28 (seven years ago) link
From wiki entry for "Amour Fou" (Season 3) episode of the Sopranos:
The music played when Ralph returns home to comfort Rosalie is a Bob Dylan cover of a Dean Martin song, "Return To Me". It was recorded for this episode at Dylan's request, as he is an admitted fan of the series [David Chase mentions this in the DVD/Blu-ray audio commentary for this episode].
this is really odd and I never noticed it before. Was this the beginning of his American songbook phase?
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 March 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link
that one is pretty nice -- he was doing a handful of old crooner tunes throughout the neverending tour, though -- http://www.bobsboots.com/CDs/cd-g41_6.html
― tylerw, Thursday, 16 March 2017 17:27 (seven years ago) link
that's interesting!
there is of course also "Blue Moon" on Self Portrait, really it's probably an interest of his that's been there all along - reading Chronicles it's interesting to see how many artists from different genres (even different art forms) Dylan (at least retrospectively) identifies with
― niels, Friday, 17 March 2017 07:22 (seven years ago) link