Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Bob Dylan - Fallen Angels

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:16
Size: 85.3 MB
Styles: Standards, Pop/Rock
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[2:54] 1. Young At Heart
[2:50] 2. Maybe You'll Be There
[3:31] 3. Polka Dots And Moonbeams
[3:59] 4. All The Way
[2:53] 5. Skylark
[3:24] 6. Nevertheless
[3:01] 7. All Or Nothing At All
[2:13] 8. On A Little Street In Singapore
[3:58] 9. It Had To Be You
[2:50] 10. Melancholy Mood
[3:02] 11. That Old Black Magic
[2:36] 12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

You can go all the way back to the beginning of “What the fuck is Bob Dylan doing now?” and find jazz. “Peggy Day” from Nashville Skyline—his first detour into melodic crooning—is snappy Western swing; following that was Self Portrait’s notorious take on Rodgers and Hart’s “Blue Moon,” and New Morning’s hepcat pastiche, “If Dogs Run Free.” Dylan’s earliest Frank Sinatra tribute dates back five decades and only found its first official release in 2014: the addled Basement Tapes-era riff on the Johnny Mercer classic “One for My Baby (One More for the Road).”

None of this, however, made the advent of his Standards Period last year any less of a surprise. Some of the initial shock was the result of the growing stigma around the aging-rocker-does-the-American-songbook format, not the fact that Dylan would offer his own version. As he himself acknowledged in his labyrinthine Musicares acceptance speech last year, this sort of record has become a convention—a profitable one. At this point, any new release in this vein scans as something more sordid than a stocking-stuffer: an empty money grab.

Dylan’s particular, oddball point in bringing up the trend was to illustrate the absurd degree to which he was still viewed as a man apart. Why did people pore over Shadows in the Night any more than Rod Stewart’s latest compilation? “In their reviews no one says anything,” Dylan demurred. “In my reviews, they’ve got to look under every stone and report about it.” ~Winston Cook-Wilson

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