Tag: Shadows in the Night
'Bob Dylan Releases Noir Music Video for 'The Night We Called It a Day,' Daniel Lanois Says More Sinatra to Come
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'For the Old Folk: Bob Dylan Gives Away 50,000 Copies of Sinatra LP 'Shadows in the Night' to AARP Subscribers
For skeptics of Dylan's recent measure of work, his recent Frank Sinatra cover album, Shadows in the Night, has bode well with critics and fans alike. And in addition to the aging crooners release, too, he will also be giving away 50,000 albums to random AARP the Magazine subscribers. -
'From 'Basement Tapes Complete' to Christmas Lights, Is There Any Truth Behind Dylan?
It seems that with Dylan, there is an unhealthy obsession with deciphering the genius — cracking what is probably the Dylan Code. With his latest release, "The Basement Tapes Complete," and upcoming Sinatra cover album, "Shadows in the Night," it is a wonder if his talent can be taken as strictly musical. If you have read the first — and arguably only — installation of his autobiography, "Chronicles: Volume 1," even his own words are subject to a scavenger hunt to unveil that he ultimately lifted phrase, lines, even complete concepts from obscure texts, including one from Asia about a Mafioso — or hit man, by some accounts. But, as Joe Levy at Medium indicates, "The Basement Tapes" are of another dimension, another time and space occupied outside the realm of judgment. It was a big jam session, there were no clocks and there was no pressure of limitation. This pressure to unveil the "truth" of Dylan's iconography has stretched beyond fandom and poured into obsession. I mean, there was even a satirical write-up about his Christmas lights. There could be a "truth" hidden in the lights, absolutely.
