Bob Dylan - Shadows In The Night flac album

Shadows in the Night is the 36th studio album by Bob Dylan, released by Columbia Records on February 3, 2015. The album consists of covers of traditional pop standards made famous by Frank Sinatra, chosen by Dylan. Speaking of his intention behind the album, Dylan stated: The album garnered acclaim from critics, who praised its song selections as well as Dylan and his band's performance and arrangements

Its songs are old and Shadows in the Night is appropriately a defiantly old-fashioned album: a record the way they used to make them, long before Dylan had a recording contract of his own. Archaic though it may be - it's a mere ten songs lasting no longer than 35 minutes, just like all the long-players of the '50s - it's hard to call it musty, not when Dylan invested considerable energy in adapting these songs to the confines of his five-piece road band.

Shadows in the Night (2015). 1. I’m a Fool to Want You. 2. The Night We Called it a Day. 3. Stay with Me.

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Is Bob Dylan trolling us? His 36th studio album, Shadows in the Night, is a collection of old jazz crooner standards most closely associated with Frank Sinatra  . In other words, Shadows in the Night represents a lifelong appreciation for Sinatra, but more than that, Dylan is toasting a very specific era in pop songwriting.

Shadows in the Night" is an album that's best appreciated when heard with intention, while sitting still, with volume and focus. It's Dylan upending expectations once again, another left turn in a career filled with them, sharing his wisdom and defining himself through the lines of others. He's done that both as a historian and a thief of American music, playing with context and blurring intentions in innumerable songs.

Shadows in the Night. Covering romantic pop songs once sung by Sinatra, he finds a new way into rock history. But Dylan’s need is immediate, even carnal, and he pleads his case with a survivor’s force, in a deep, shockingly clear voice that sounds like rebirth in itself. In stripping the song to pure, robust confession, Dylan turns Stay With Me into the most fundamental of Great American Songs: a blues

Shadows in the Night was released by Columbia Records on February 3, 2015. Just prior to its release, a Dylan publicist announced that 50,000 free copies of the CD would be given away to randomly selected readers of AARP The Magazine, a bi-monthly periodical that focuses on issues related to aging. Dylan's representatives also reached out to Robert. Partridge also observed, "Dylan has always loved American mythology and all things archaic, and his best songs on recent albums have been rooted in pre-rock.

Shadows in the Night (Columbia). Shadows in the Night (Columbia). Despite his late entry in the standards album game, Bob Dylan actually proposed such an endeavor 35 years ago in the wake of Willie Nelson's Stardust. Then-CBS Records president Walter Yetnikoff refused to pay for it. A questionable business decision, but one that probably saved Dylan's take on the so-called "saloon songs" of Frank Sinatra from the horrors of Eighties production. AARP tie-in aside, Shadows neatly sidesteps.