BOB DYLAN NEW MORNING C/D

If Dogs Run Free is totally hilarious - a little jazz piano doodling, some dog noises, Dylan mumbling. AWESOME

weirdly, dylan actually plays that song live from time to time.

I had this on my iPod on my way to work today - put me in such a good mood, it's far better than I remembered it being. 'Day of the Locusts' is a great song! I don't actually own the CD anymore, I should pick up that remastered version.

Maybe this has been pointed before on the thread, but it boggles my mind that "Gypsy" features Dylan's only mention of the state of Minnesota

c'est

he talks about duluth on "Something There Is About You"

not entirely related but does anyone remember which ilx thread was the one where someone accidentally posted the album cover of 'empire burlesque' when they meant to post a different image and it turned into a running metajoke?

Aw man this is so nice to hear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV2FFNVmJQI

the electric piano outtake version of "went to see the gypsy" is A++

yeah it's something isn't it? nothing else remotely like it in his career.

wish it were on youtube or something for other folks

Listened to the album on a road trip today!

this record has a sort of The Band vibe, but with a lighter touch

I'll say it again: I love Dylan's piano on this.

wish it were on youtube or something for other folks
i think it was released officially on some kind of itunes comp, but maybe just in the UK?

at this point in my life whenever i'm like 'hey i'd like to listen to some bob dylan right now' i usually go with this or self portrait

"How are you?" he said to me/I said it back to him

^^best dylan lyric ever

if only had to listen to one dylan song for the rest of my life it would easily be "Went To See the Gypsy"

i went down to the lob-beh

that little minnesota towwwwwn

there's some chatter in the dylan community that the next bootleg series is going to be made up of 1969-70 sessions. which is a good idea!

oooh!

he can move you from the rear

charlie daniels kills it on this record

haha awesome:

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pro tip: don't read any other tweets by mr. daniels

wow!

is russ kunkel on twitter

only reference to him on twitter i could find (assuming this is the same dude, glad he's still getting good paying gigs!)

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the kunk! he's got a cool resume. the go-to folk/country/rock session drummer! guess he's been with lovett forever now.

The back cover art of this album is so wtf, with that irrelevent Victoria Spivey photo and the album title in quotes with a kinda used-cars font - it's like he hoped it would be mistaken for a cheap bootleg or something.

yeah it is pretty random, wonder what the thinking was.
i read some essay a long time ago that made the claim that if dylan was bearded on the front album photograph it meant that it was not an actual bob dylan album.

Sounds like a Weberman theory

yeah i don't think it was weberman, but it was along those lines.

My favorite line on this album is "once had a sweetheart she was fine and good lookin / I'd sit in the kitchen while her mama was cookin."

Columbus OH's The Randys tell me their Christmas party set will incl that Brave Combo version of "Must Be Santa" Dylan exuberantly cloned--followed or preceded by "Winterlude"!

(I love both those)

haha m@tt this made me so happy

the man in me will hide sometimes, to keep from being seen

aw bob

Build me a cabin in Utah
Marry me a wife
catch rainbow trout
Have a bunch of kids
who call me “Pa”

That must be what it’s all about

So good. Brighton girls are like the moon.

Jennifer Warnes taking a decent MOR crack at it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlQG1ctPypU

horn overdubs

thinkin bob might have made a mistake there

Heard this -- and Nashville Skyline, and Self Portrait -- for the first time two days ago. Of those three, I like New Morning the best (Self Portrait isn't that bad...some songs are hideous, some are meh, a few are brilliant, most of the arrangements are shit).

I like New Morning a lot, and love some of it, but like I said on the poll thread, I think it's a bit of a head fake. The title (and title track) suggest a level of assurance that the album doesn't actually have. It's like he's trying to will himself into some new phase that hasn't really come into focus yet. You can sense Blood on the Tracks coming a little way off but he's not to that level of self-awareness and renewed confidence yet. And "Father of Night" prefigures the born again years, too.

Good points.
Tarfumes, try Another Self-Portrait, or anyway the 15-track sampler on Spotify: some keepers, though the New Morning outtakes are understandablly that ("Sign On The Window" is more effective without those nice horns). Would have preferred "Working On A Guru"'s inclusion on NM, humorously/wistfully balancing the corn in "Sign", though other original-release tracks balance it better. "If Dogs Run Free" is the genius move there. Hit it Baby.

i don't see why blood on the tracks should be the standard

Not "the standard," it just to me sounds like a guy in mature control of what he's doing and how and why. New Morning is more tentative -- part of its charm, really.

New Morning, at least some of it, was salvaged from an aborted project he was doing with an author.

Archibald MacLeish, I think.

Yeah, but after Nashville Skyline and Self-Portrait, it worked as more of a How I Got This Way: the desperate little Van Morrison-esque outbursts, where he just wouldn't have a clue and it wouldn't ring true, if not for you; the disappointment of "Gypsy", the desolate self=pity of "Sign", the paranoid flight from "Locusts", even, back in the saftey zone, restlessness gradually becoming desperate once again: "Time passes slowly when you're lost in a dream!" So, escapism of those other albums aside, here it's more like he admits, hell, he's (almost) tried everything else. The title song celebrates provisional, historical, get-it-while-you-can new mornings: "Auto-mo-beel, comin' into style"[ the bare dryness of some tracks goes with the bloomin' beauty of others; the randiness and rolling Crumb grooves of "One More Weekend," and "If Dogs Run Free". Dad's tales "Three Angels" and "Father of Night" (little did we know what these were symptoms of). Hiding coz he doesn't wanna turn into some machine is a plausible/characteristic enough alibi too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsx9YBV9EnM&list=RDBsx9YBV9EnM#t=9