Bob Dylan's last album, 2006's Modern Times, topped all kinds of critics' polls. Since then, we've seen a resurrection of Dylanology via stuff like I'm Not There, Todd Haynes' impressionistic Dylan biopic (and star-studded soundtrack), and the rarities collection Tell Tale Signs. So a new Bob Dylan album is a big deal, but don't expect him to announce it to great fanfare like, say, U2 or the Rolling Stones. That is not The Dylan Way.
As Rolling Stone reports and Dylan's publicist confirms, Bob Dylan will release his follow-up to Modern Times next month. Beyond that, details are characteristically scarce. The ten-song album has no title, release date (beyond "late April"), or cover just yet.
According to Rolling Stone, Dylan recorded the album after filmmaker Olivier Dahan requested a song for a movie. When Dylan finished that song, "Life Is Hard" (which will appear in the movie My Own Love Song, starring Renée Zellweger), he just kept recording. Fricke reports that Dylan produced the album under his Jack Frost pseudonym and that David Hidalgo of Los Lobos might play accordion on it.
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As Rolling Stone reports and Dylan's publicist confirms, Bob Dylan will release his follow-up to Modern Times next month. Beyond that, details are characteristically scarce. The ten-song album has no title, release date (beyond "late April"), or cover just yet.
Rolling Stone's David Fricke says... "it has a seductive border-cafe feel (courtesy of the accordion on every track) and an emphasis on struggling-love songs." Sample song titles: "I Feel a Change Coming On", "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'", "If You Ever Go to Houston", "This Dream of You", "My Wife's Home Town", "It's All Good". Sample lyric: "I'm listening to Billy Joe Shaver / And I'm reading James Joyce / Some people tell me I got the blood of the land in my voice." Yeah, sounds like a Bob Dylan album.
According to Rolling Stone, Dylan recorded the album after filmmaker Olivier Dahan requested a song for a movie. When Dylan finished that song, "Life Is Hard" (which will appear in the movie My Own Love Song, starring Renée Zellweger), he just kept recording. Fricke reports that Dylan produced the album under his Jack Frost pseudonym and that David Hidalgo of Los Lobos might play accordion on it.
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