Bob Dylan "Shadows in the Night"

"Dylan's Greatest Hats" lol

xp Ditto, and Dylan seemed to dig it, too. "You actually asked me about music!"

dylan's greatest hats killed me because they got most of the years wrong. give me a break.

Ooh I'm going to see if my dad has this issue yet when I swing by there tonight

"you can have it when i'm done with this tony danza interview, son"

man i saw don jon recently and danza is fucking ripped

Total strike out, I guess my dad last month decided "why am I paying 15 bucks a yr for this?" and canceled his subscription.:(

still the voice of his generation

For once it's Bob following Bruce's lead: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/09/23/health/boss_250.jpg

By the way, how is it Bob Dylan has never named an album "The New Dylan?"

"you can have it when i'm done with this tony danza interview, son"

― tylerw, Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:53 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Has anyone ever done the Elton John joke?

hold me closer?

mm hmm

not a bad interview, but at his age he sort of ends up relating the same anecdotes and opinions for the 23,000th time

"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

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

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.

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.

he's not wrong about the overall uniformity of the arrangements, but like that approach -- really enjoyed this on my first listen.

but I like that approach, is what i meant

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

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.

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.

and certainly at least a handful of tracks on every album since love & theft (maybe even time out of mind) have taken this kind of music as inspiration

and i know that plenty will still complain about his vocals, but SITN really is a showcase for Dylan as a singer.

oh man the lap steel on this!

yeah, was reminding me of friends of dean martinez!

it's 7am and i've been sitting here since 11pm trying to review this, it's great, destroys tempest

In a Mikal Gilmore story from '85, Dylan and the Heartbreakers cover "That Lucky Old Sun."

*according to

yeah they played it at farm aid! i think he may have even done that one back w/ the rolling thunder revue?

it's 7am and i've been sitting here since 11pm trying to review this, it's great, destroys tempest

I told Tyler yesterday it's his best record since Love and Theft.

better than the Xmas record?!

a little. Better material.

ha, i'm not sure i'd go as far as best since love & theft just yet, but i do really like it.

there's a whole disk in the Genuine NET covers bootleg box called "Croonin' In The Night", from the late 80s and early 90s

http://www.bobsboots.com/CDs/cd-g41_6.html

i like modern times a lot too though

but yeah where has this singing been?

i know he was smoking at least fairly recently, i'm wondering if maybe he gave up cigs and tempest was the time period when he was clearing out and now maybe his lungs are a little better? i dunno, it's kinda striking

might be the absence of drums that's kinda letting him open up a bit more?

I can see the Mediterranean from my front step and yet it's going to snow here tonight and so this is the perfect album right now

re: smoking - the main detail my daughter seems to have retained about Dylan is that if you smoke cigarettes for 50 years, you sound like he does on the Xmas record

so he's a cautionary tale, basically

although she likes 115th Dream, cuz it's just a funny story

I don't think there's any Dylan voice I dislike, apart from whatever he was doing on Nashville Skyline (and it's only tough to take on "Country Pie").

I absolutely love Gravelly Bob. Easily my favorite Bob voice/approach after the live 1966 stuff.

wow on "That Lucky Old Sun" I hear a little of 1966 live singing, or "Positively 4th Street": "paradise", "wash all our TROUBLES away", and so on

and that is the best Dylan singing era ever imo

I absolutely love Gravelly Bob. Easily my favorite Bob voice/approach after the live 1966 stuff.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, February 3, 2015 11:46 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it may have been an "approach" to a degree, but -- for example -- "Soon After Midnight" off of Tempest isn't far from a song off Shadows in the Night, but contrast how this sounds like he just physically can't sing some of the notes with how assured he is on the new album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCt9Tfv-Ft4

yeah i mean, the amount of shows he does can't be great for wear and tear on the vocal chords. maybe this one was recorded during an extended break?

Seriously, though, Dylan is 73. Springsteen is 65 and plays shows twice as long with three times as much yelling. Macca is 72 and we're really just starting to hear the cracks, and he goes long and loud, too. Only voice I can think of worse than Dylan's is Leonard Cohen, and he is 80, but he owns his croak a bit better than Bob. Also, Cohen could never really sing to begin with, imo.

what's the deal w/ this some enchanted evening cover? we know what it sounds like from one of the greatest bass voices ever so let's now hear it in dylan's scratchy mumble?

bob felt like doing it

man he looks spooked tho, give the man a guitar to at least hold or something

This is my most played record of 2015 thus far. I truly adore it.

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.

It's a great record for late night listening

gave it a spin sunday and lots of tunes now stuck in my head

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.

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).

"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.

Sounds cool, is it presumably outtakes from Stadows sessions?

is this out or what?

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

was a RSD thing right? album is out in a couple weeks, i think.

was just checking out a recent show: http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=2855

http://exclaim.ca/images/16worst.jpg

^^mentioned in a "worst covers of 2016" listicle... gotta say, it is very uninspired...

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?

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

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