LouieB Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 The Sinatra album story made the NBC evening news last night. This is both not news and barely interesting. I guess on some level it is cool he wants to do an album that is done in the old style, no overdubs etc. Maybe it will get the Lady Ga Ga / Tony Bennett crowd. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
froggie Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Bob's next next album, featuring even older songs: The Big, Big Sleep (a.k.a. Songs Nobody Wants to Hear, Least of All By Dylan) 1. Clementine2. Star Spangled Banner3. Hellhound on My Trail4. Camptown Races5. Old Folks At Home6. Oh Shenandoah7. Jelly Roll Blues8. When Johnny Comes Marching Home9. Goodnight Irene i'd enjoy that one!. and he's already recorded Shenandoah back in 1988 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dagwave Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Not to mention "Dixie" in the Masked and Anonymous movie! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 I liked his version of Dixie. Good one. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Help, please. I'm looking for a performance of Dylan's from a tribute concert. All I recall is it's him playing acoustic and singing, it's about a two minute-long performance, and the man being honored, and who wrote the song, is an American songbook/Broadway musical type, like Richard Rodgers or Cole Porter, but not them (apparently). The song is a lesser-known nugget from a musical, called something like Sway or -- shit, I don't know. I am pretty sure a YouTube link is somewhere in this thread but I can't locate it.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Oh and it seemed to be from the early 90s, iirc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
calvino Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Could it be the below: Bob Dylan "SOON" Gershwin-Gala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdJ8Z2A7Jlc Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 THANK YOU CALVINO!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 That was even greater than I remembered it. Thanks again.The song seemed to make decades disappear for him - he could be twenty years old in that clip. He had to have first fallen in love with that song as a kid. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
calvino Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Yeah it's a good one - that "Soon" reminded me of the last time I saw Dylan (this past Oct or Nov in Chicago) where he ended his show with "Stay with Me" (the standard) - That night, I have not seen a more emotional performance by him in long, long time, than during his take on "Stay With Me" - it was really something. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I listened to the song on the Rolling Stone site and it wasn't bad, which is just a polite way of saying it wasn't all that great. I haven't even listened to my new copy of the Basement Tapes yet and this thing is coming down pretty soon. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
calvino Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I finally did get the 2 CD Set of the Basement Tapes from the my library and listened to it --- it is definitely good and I probably will get the complete set at some point. As per usual with his Bootleg Series , the liner notes that come with the 2 CD are great. It was nice to hear a trombone on one of the tunes... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Bring over a computer and you can have all six disks. This is the most bootlegged material in the world; giving it away one more time won't hurt. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
calvino Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Bring over a computer and you can have all six disks. This is the most bootlegged material in the world; giving it away one more time won't hurt. LouieB You are right, if any set warrants it - it is this one - though I have had issues ripping Sony stuff with the software I use (EAC). Haven't tried to rip the 2 cd set, yet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
calvino Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Guess it with his upcoming release, it's fitting that he does an interview with AARP. http://www.aarp.org/entertainment/style-trends/info-2015/bob-dylan-aarp-magazine.1.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I heard from a friend (how reliable is that?) that Dylan is going to send out 50,000 copies of the new album to AARP members. That means I could actually get this without having to pay for it. I was just snarking to the same friend last night that Dylan SHOULD give this album away free and I guess I heard me. It's not like he needs the money. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
calvino Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I heard from a friend (how reliable is that?) that Dylan is going to send out 50,000 copies of the new album to AARP members. That means I could actually get this without having to pay for it. I was just snarking to the same friend last night that Dylan SHOULD give this album away free and I guess I heard me. It's not like he needs the money. LouieB Yep - your friend is correct. Pitchfork, of all places, confirms. http://pitchfork.com/news/58191-bob-dylan-giving-new-album-away-to-50000-aarp-magazine-subscribers/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 That's so fucking funny. I mean I was making a joke about this last night. I said he should just ship the thing to record stores and give them away there, but this is way better. Most of my ggggg-generation doesn't go to record stores anymore and there aren't any in many towns. When I was growing up Sinatra was considered square as can be. He only picked up some cred in his later years. I guess it all comes back around (I mean look at Tony Bennett). LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Let's get a couple things straight in anticipation of the new Bob Dylan album. He is not "covering" Frank Sinatra or anyone else. Frank Sinatra didn't write these songs. You can cover Bob Dylan; you cover someone who has done the song first, but most of these songs were done by numerous people. Dylan is doing a standards album, the same as all older rock musicians like Rod Stewart, Annie Lenox, or Linda Ronstadt have done. A great standards album is "A Little Touch of Schmilson in the Night." Buy a copy of that if you don't have one. It's a great album without any pretense of being anything but what it is. (Plus Harry Nilsson's voice is amazing.) Frank Sinatra had a great voice, but to most people of my generation he was an old, out of touch, has been. He regained his relevance (only somewhat) as he aged. Why not leave this material to people who can do it far better; the cabaret pop, or jazz singers? I am sure there will be partisans who think this is a great thing. Sign me up for a super discounted CD version of this album when it flops. On the heels of the monumental Basement Tapes, this seems like a huge let down. To me, another album of traditional American music and/or blues would be welcome. Why not revisit those songs that influenced him as a young man? Perhaps there was Sinatra in there, but not to the extent that people like Hank Williams influenced him. But I suppose he has one more opportunity to try and remake himself. It just seems like this is a lame attempt, but I know it isn't the first time. LouieB LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
froggie Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Help, please. I'm looking for a performance of Dylan's from a tribute concert. All I recall is it's him playing acoustic and singing, it's about a two minute-long performance, and the man being honored, and who wrote the song, is an American songbook/Broadway musical type, like Richard Rodgers or Cole Porter, but not them (apparently). The song is a lesser-known nugget from a musical, called something like Sway or -- shit, I don't know. I am pretty sure a YouTube link is somewhere in this thread but I can't locate it.... Oh and it seemed to be from the early 90s, iirc. Could it be the below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdJ8Z2A7Jlc 'Soon' was done in 1987, just before the dylan/dead tour Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TCP Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Let's get a couple things straight in anticipation of the new Bob Dylan album. He is not "covering" Frank Sinatra or anyone else. Frank Sinatra didn't write these songs. You can cover Bob Dylan; you cover someone who has done the song first, but most of these songs were done by numerous people. Dylan is doing a standards album, the same as all older rock musicians like Rod Stewart, Annie Lenox, or Linda Ronstadt have done. A great standards album is "A Little Touch of Schmilson in the Night." Buy a copy of that if you don't have one. It's a great album without any pretense of being anything but what it is. (Plus Harry Nilsson's voice is amazing.) Frank Sinatra had a great voice, but to most people of my generation he was an old, out of touch, has been. He regained his relevance (only somewhat) as he aged. Why not leave this material to people who can do it far better; the cabaret pop, or jazz singers? I am sure there will be partisans who think this is a great thing. Sign me up for a super discounted CD version of this album when it flops. On the heels of the monumental Basement Tapes, this seems like a huge let down. To me, another album of traditional American music and/or blues would be welcome. Why not revisit those songs that influenced him as a young man? Perhaps there was Sinatra in there, but not to the extent that people like Hank Williams influenced him. But I suppose he has one more opportunity to try and remake himself. It just seems like this is a lame attempt, but I know it isn't the first time. LouieB LouieB Actually, he's done that. Twice. Also these are songs were popularized and made famous by Sinatra, so it's a "Sinatra cover album" is an apt description as Sinatra is the common denominator on all these songs. What your saying is akin to saying a band performing I Got You is covering Jeff Tweedy not Wilco. Just because Sinatra didn't write these songs, doesn't mean they aren't Sinatra songs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jw harding Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 I've got the album. Best Dylan album to take drugs to since Time Out of Mind. I like his vocals, he seems to connect to the songs. And I'm a sucker for pedal steel, which is really the focus of the album. Nice arrangements of the songs, the band sounds good. Not one of his greatest, not one I'll listen to that often, but not a disaster, or anywhere near that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magnetized Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 I've got the album. Best Dylan album to take drugs to since Time Out of Mind.Like Coumadin? Flomax? Lipitor? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jw harding Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Like Coumadin? Flomax? Lipitor?If taken rectally. Whatever floats your boat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Okay I admit it. Some (but only some) of these songs are by Frank Sinatra or done by him shortly after they were written and therefore are covers. The rest are clearly standards. My bad. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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