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)
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 April 2016 14:42 (eight years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 April 2016 14:49 (eight years ago) link
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
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 April 2016 19:43 (eight years ago) link
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.
― dow, Thursday, 28 April 2016 23:56 (eight years ago) link
good observations itt!
― niels, Friday, 29 April 2016 11:03 (eight years ago) link
It's out
― niels, Saturday, 21 May 2016 12:41 (eight years ago) link
just look what you'll derive from being alive
― j., Saturday, 21 May 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
Heard it on the npr first listen thing. I like some of it
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 May 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link
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
― dow, Friday, 10 June 2016 01:55 (eight years ago) link
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
― niels, Friday, 10 June 2016 05:38 (eight years ago) link
I can't get excited about this.
― Duke, Friday, 10 June 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link