Bob Dylan "Shadows in the Night"

Been some mention of this on the Dylan nominations thread but probably needs its own thread. The album title is not yet confirmed but looks that way from the splash screen on bobdylan.com, which is also streaming new song "Full Moon and Empty Arms" (cover of a song previously sung by Frank Sinatra).

Pat Benatar cover!

blue note-style cover suggests bob's gone hard bop??? *fingers crossed*

I joked on the Dylan poll thread that this was recorded by Rudy Van Gelder; but that's something that should definitely happen.

wait so that cover image is real?!

http://www.shadowsofknight.com/homepage/SOKadps.jpg

Squinting hard in the serious moonlight, he means it man and ma'am. Okay, but what I like best, so far: the 40s-appopriate, mainland-Hawaiian steel guitars.

appropriate, too.

​"This track is definitely from a forthcoming album due later on this year," a spokesperson for the singer tells Rolling Stone. While the rep wouldn't confirm an album title, Dylan posted an image of himself with the phrase "Shadows in the Night." With its distinct vertical bars and crisp, minimalist text, the image appears to be in the style of graphic designer Reid Miles' iconongraphic covers for jazz label Blue Note.

Dylan doesn't stray too far from Sinatra's original track, though his version replaces the string section with guitars. "Full Moon and Empty Arms" was written by Ted Mossmann and Buddy Kaye and based around Sergei Rachmaninoff's 1901 composition "Piano Concert No. 2 in C Minor." The song has been covered by everyone from Robert Goulet to The Platters, but Sinatra's rendition remains the most famous. Dylan's last few albums were strongly inspired by popular music from this era.

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this one is apparently on the album (which has been pushed back to early 2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceosVcHvuvE
i like it!

Wishing that was a Faces cover.

A Dylan-obsessed cinephile friend tells me it's the theme from Otto Preminger's The Cardinal.

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.’”

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.

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

obvious horns

obvious 5 horns

we've been jamming the Christmas album so I'm stoked for this one, hoping for a related vibe

should've called the album NIGHT OF THE LIVING SINATRA w/ a zombie Frank on the cover.

this is such an awesome move. like it smacks of just acting on impulse to me. rad as hell.

My most anticipated release of 2015. I love the Christmas record and I expect this'll sound a lot like it.

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.

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

Shut up is that real??

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).

I so wish that was real.

Seriously! Maybe Dylan will see it and say "hey wait a minute, scrap whatever we had planned before."

bob dylan's phlegm sings the frank sinatra songbook

love the blonde on blonde vibe

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

Very cool! Bob's surprisingly political here.

http://i.imgur.com/iwuBSa4.jpg

I love that AARP magazine now looks like an old issue of SPIN.

that was one of the better dylan interviews i've read in a while

"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?"

Merle, on FB today:

Bob Dylan I've admired your songs since 1964. "Don't Think Twice" Bob, Willie and I just recorded it on our new album.

It's not half as mean in context. But who cares about that?

i read the context. it's still pretty churlish. oh well.

when will the never-ending tour end? when the heroin runs out

haha why don't people say that about… tom waits… or leonard cohen… or lou reed…

uh bob

Don't think anyone's linked the whole transcript yet:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-grammys-2015-transcript-of-bob-dylans-musicares-person-of-year-speech-20150207-story.html#page=1

It seems weird that someone who has received as much critical acclaim as Dylan has over the years should still remember and seem bothered by ancient slights. I guess no matter how much praise you receive as an artist it's never enough. Still seems a bit petty. The story about Billy Lee Riley was genuinely touching though.

The whole thing isn't nearly as bitter as ppl are making it out to be. There are a lot of really poignant parts, weird parts, goofy parts, mean parts, very dylan I guess.

A good and slightly boring album.

The speech is pretty consistent with that last big Rolling Stone interview, where he hit some of the same petty grievances. Difference this time is naming so many names. (And weird ones, too -- I would've figured him for a Tom T. Hall fan, but maybe he never listened deeper than "I Love.") Anyway, hard to be surprised that the guy who wrote "Positively 4th Street" 50 years ago has grown into a surly old man.

Well, he's got Bob Lefsetz on his side, so...

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.

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?

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.

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

Kiki otm

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)

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.

I want more score-settling with fellow musicians for perceived slights.

Dylan needs to do series of McConaughey-style car ads were he throws other musicians out of said cars.

Merle Haggard just knows what you need
But Buck Owens knows what you want

follow up to the musicares speech
www.bobdylan.com/news/conversation-bill-flanagan

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?

(xp obv) thanks for link for weekend reading

Bob Dylan has second album of standards, says Daniel Lanois

stadowing e-40 on the day shift

I'll take another volume. I love this one.

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

good video, needs more davi

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

still laughing at that video, especially bob's period-appropriate hair styling

kind of violent though (again)

still disappointed this isn't called Stadows in the Night

what do you mean, it is

I thought it was Saddos in the Night

This is a pretty cool performance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=157&v=u_djZiswcrQ

yeah sounded great...
he added autumn leaves to his set on the most recent neverending tour jaunt.

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