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

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.