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 Post subject: [2016-05-20] Bob Dylan "Fallen Angels" YACA of standards (Columbia)
PostPosted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 11:56 pm 
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Fallen Angels is the 37th studio album from Bob Dylan. Featuring twelve classic American tunes written by some of music's most acclaimed and influential songwriters including Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Sammy Cahn And Carolyn Leigh the album showcases Dylan's unique and much-lauded talents as a vocalist, arranger and bandleader. The Jack Frost-produced album marks the first new music from the artist since his 2015 release, Shadows In The Night, which also showcased Dylan's interpretations of classic American songs. That album reached the Top 10 in seventeen countries, including #7 in the U.S., with #1 debuts in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden and Norway.

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1. Young At Heart
2. Maybe You'll Be There
3. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
4. All The Way
5. Skylark
6. Nevertheless
7. All Or Nothing At All
8. On A Little Street In Singapore
9. It Had To Be You
10. Melancholy Mood
11. That Old Black Magic
12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DTE41NK/?tag=imwan-20

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 Post subject: [2016-05-20] Bob Dylan "Fallen Angels" YACA of standards (Columbia)
PostPosted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 11:57 pm 
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From WMGKFM.com:

Bob Dylan is returning to the Great American Songbook for his next album.

Engineer Al Schmitt tells Billboard magazine that Dylan is back in Hollywood's Capitol Studios working on a sequel to last year's Frank Sinatra-themed Shadows in the Night, a standards collection that's up for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at tonight's (February 15) Grammy awards.

Attending the Recording Academy's Producers & Engineers Wing tribute to Rick Rubin, Schmitt says that Dylan "sounds great. His mood in the studio is fabulous. We're having a good time. We're like two old shoes together now, we're so comfortable with one another now."

Schmitt did not reveal any of the song selections but added that Dylan is "extraordinarily smart and he's so aware of everything that's going on, so he knows what's happening at every moment." There's no word on when the album will be released.

Dylan is again producing and recording with his touring band. "Shadows in the Night" debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and NO. 1 in the U.K.

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 Post subject: [2016-05-20] Bob Dylan "Fallen Angels" YACA of standards (Columbia)
PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 4:09 pm 
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At some point in the past week or two (the post mentioned February 1st) I also encountered an online blurb that said that Dylan was recording in Nashville.

The other big--but far less substantiated--Dylan rumor is that the 1994 Supper Club concerts are set for release this year.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 4:13 pm 
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Stumpy Joe wrote:
The other big--but far less substantiated--Dylan rumor is that the 1994 Supper Club concerts are set for release this year.

I hope this is true as the Supper Club boots are among my favorite from that period.

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 Post subject: [2016-05-20] Bob Dylan "Fallen Angels" YACA of standards (Columbia)
PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 1:08 pm 
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From Uncut Magazine:

Bob Dylan is set to release a new album, Fallen Angels, this summer.

The album – Dylan’s 37th studio full-length – will be the follow-up to 2015’s Shadows In The Night, a set of covers of Frank Sinatra classics.

Dylan will tour the US in June and July, supported by Mavis Staples on all dates. The majority of dates are offered as a package including Fallen Angels. Dylan’s website states: “For every pair of tickets purchased, you will receive a redemption code to receive a Compact Disk of Bob Dylan’s forthcoming album Fallen Angels. (Not available for Indianapolis and Boston.)”

Bob Dylan plays:

Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Woodinville, WA (June 4, 5)
Cuthbert Amphitheater, Eugene, OR (7)
Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA (9)
Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA (11)
Humphreys Concerts By The Bay, San Diego, CA (13, 14)
Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA (16)
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO (19)
Starlight Theatre, Kansas City, MO (21)
Pinewood Bowl Theater, Lincoln, NE (22)
Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, IL (24)
Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn at White River State Park, Indianapolis, IN (25)
Carl Black Chevy Woods Amphitheater, Nashville, TN (26)
Fraze Pavilion, Kettering, OH (28)
Toledo Zoo Amphitheatre, Toledo, OH (29)
Artpark, Lewiston, NY (30)
Tanglewood, Lenox, MA July 2)
Foxwoods Resort Casino, Mashantucket, CT (3)
Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA (5, 6)
Forest Hills Stadium, Queens, NY (8)
CMAC, Canandaigua, NY (12)
The Mann Center, Philadelphia, PA (13)
Blue Hills Bank Pavilion, Boston, MA (14)
Thompson’s Point, Portland, ME (16)
Bank Of New Hampshire Pavilion, Gilford, NH (17)

Read more at http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/bob-dylan-a ... gels-73025

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I didn't know until just recently that Dylan and Mavis once were an item, and that Dylan actually proposed to her. Mavis says she turned him down because she felt she was too young.
This will be a must see for me.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:22 pm 
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Bump: Sony have scheduled the album for May 20th, and we now have the cover image up in the first post. The Amazon pre-order link is not yet active, but should be soon.

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Now we have the tracklist in the first post, and the pre-order link is active. Have a listen to "Melancholy Mood":


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I like standards, but most of the songs on here I don't need to hear anyone do again, ever.

I think this album will suck.

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"All The Way":


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 Post subject: [2016-05-20] Bob Dylan "Fallen Angels" YACA of standards (Columbia)
PostPosted: Sat May 14, 2016 1:33 pm 
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In anticipation of the album's release this coming Friday, the pre-order price has been reduced to $9.99:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DTE41NK/?tag=imwan-20

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 Post subject: [2016-05-20] Bob Dylan "Fallen Angels" YACA of standards (Columbia)
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Here's a favorable review of the album from USA Today:

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With Bob Dylan's last album, 2015's Shadows In the Night, one of our most revered and enduringly cool singer/songwriters championed the increasingly undervalued art of interpretive singing, covering pre-rock standards delivered in the past by Frank Sinatra, among many others.

It would have been a momentous achievement for its statement alone, even if the results had been embarrassing, or meh — and they were anything but.

Investing his personal and creative experience into gems by Cy Coleman, Irving Berlin and Rodgers and Hammerstein, Dylan gave us readings that were, if not pretty, profound; he served the material with reverence, wistfulness and wisdom while retaining the quirks and nuances that make him one of rock & roll's most distinctive voices to this day.

With the follow-up Fallen Angels, (* * * ½ out of four stars), out May 20, Dylan digs back into the treasure trove that is the American songbook. The focus here is generally on breezier fare than, say, Some Enchanted Evening or That Lucky Old Sun, to name two classics included on Shadows. This is not Dylan licking his wounds in the wee small hours of the morning, or losing himself in romantic rapture, for that matter.

There is a loose, playful quality to much of the singing here, and to the tracks, which Dylan produced under his nom de studio, Jack Frost. Polka Dots and Moonbeams begins as a dreamy, tangy instrumental, with the vocals drifting as if after a reverie, all grainy enchantment; That Old Black Magic is jazzier, the tempo sped up like a beating heart.

Even Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer's robustly bittersweet Skylark takes on an almost jaunty air, with animated acoustic guitar and whimsical viola heeding a gently buoyant pace.

But the lean, rootsy arrangements can also accommodate a distinct sense of melancholy. Subtly dissonant guitar chords introduce Young at Heart's promise of everlasting exuberance with a tinge of irony, and there is a pronounced sense of hope against hope both on a delicate Maybe You'll Be There and a more ominous Come Rain Or Come Shine.

Dylan's subdued ambivalence on the latter highlights the debt to the blues that he shares with composer Harold Arlen; it also lends a different kind of poignance to Mercer's pining lyric.

"Don't ever bet me/'Cause I'm gonna be true if you let me," Dylan sings, with implicit emphasis on the "if." Without raising his voice or adjusting his phrasing conspicuously, this pop vet, who turns 75 on May 24, captures how time can lower our expectations — though not, hopefully, our capacity for desire.

This is what a seasoned performer can do with words and music, whether his own or someone else's. Dylan deserves thanks for reminding us of that, again.

Playlist: Come Rain Or Come Shine, Skylark, On A Little Street In Singapore


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PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2016 7:58 am 
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I'm enjoying the arrangements on this album.


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