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aliljaded 53F
23949 posts
4/29/2017 4:01 pm
Sitting home listening to new Dylan...

Sitting home listening to New Dylan..

Either you love him or you hate him, I adore Bob Dylan and think he's a God when it comes to lyrics. This album, however, this is him singing Sinatra.. Here is an excerpt from the Rolling Stone article they did on the new album.

Bob Dylan's 'Triplicate' Exudes, Celebrates a Majestic Darkness; Bob Dylan's third foray into songs previously recorded by Frank Sinatra isn't only the largest set of new recordings he's ever released (three CDs, 30 songs), it's also majestic in its own right. Dylan moves through this area – the region of Sinatra, and also of standards songwriters like Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Hoagy Carmichael, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein – as if it's territory for him to chart and command. Indeed, Dylan has now made more successive albums in this idiom than in any other style since his world-changing mid-1960s electric trinity, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde.

When Dylan first decided to sing Sinatra, the idea seemed far-fetched. Did he have a voice left that was possibly up to it? Dylan made plain at the outset of Shadows in the Night, in the opening measures of "I'm a Fool to Want You" – the most defining of all Sinatra songs, and one of his only co-writing credits – he was better than up to it: He did the song dead-seriously, and chillingly. "Smooth" is not a word you would use to describe Dylan's weatherworn voice. But he can wield phrasing as effectively as Sinatra himself.

Dylan uses only a quintet throughout Triplicate, no strings, no big band (though there's a small dance horn section here and there). They re-create the solemn openings to "Stormy Weather" and "It Gets Lonely Early" in all but instrumentation. He's picked his repertoire -carefully and meaningfully here. Of the 50-some albums he released between In the Wee Small Hours, in 1955, and 1970's Watertown, Sinatra made about a dozen exploring loss, masterpieces every one. Dylan culls more than half of Triplicate's songs from those releases – particularly favoring Sinatra's often-overlooked last LP for Capitol, Point of No Return, from 1962.

He closes Triplicate, though, with something Sinatra sang many years earlier: "Why Was I Born," written by Kern and Hammerstein in 1929. It's a torch standard that epitomizes the sort of writing that Dylan killed off, asking the biggest questions – "Why was I born?/Why am I living?/What do I get?/What am I giving?" – on the most personal level. Dylan is no stranger to dejection or hard self-examination. What he understands here is the triumph in surviving that darkness. It's in that survival, and how you put it across to others, that you find out why you were born.

My two favorite albums are Blonde on Blonde and Blood on the Tracks. Here is a link to one of my very favorite tracks off the new album .... ENJOY!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eodRjcfWUh8


"Men need to hunt. She obviously understands this. She’s offering herself as prey. Not easy prey. But willing.”


aliljaded 53F
8847 posts
4/30/2017 3:38 pm

    Quoting DancingDom:
    Well now, I listened to a few this afternoon. Very interesting to say the least. Classic orchestrations with guitars (hollow body archtop) I wonder if many of these songs were ones played by his parents when he was very young? His voice, is clearer than most of his more recent recordings.

    I wonder if he longs for the simpler times of the past?
I agree... Most people that can't listen to him will be able to tolerate his voice on this album because he sounds so different. I love it! (but I am a fan)

"Men need to hunt. She obviously understands this. She’s offering herself as prey. Not easy prey. But willing.”


DancingDom 74M
22475 posts
4/30/2017 2:42 pm

Well now, I listened to a few this afternoon. Very interesting to say the least. Classic orchestrations with guitars (hollow body archtop) I wonder if many of these songs were ones played by his parents when he was very young? His voice, is clearer than most of his more recent recordings.

I wonder if he longs for the simpler times of the past?

"One Big Sky Covers Us All Equally"


DancingDom 74M
22475 posts
4/30/2017 2:04 pm

Thanks for the tip. I have never seen him live. Saw his son's band live, and he was good too. I will take a listen to this new stuff. Singing Sinatra sounds very intriguing.

"One Big Sky Covers Us All Equally"


bustyero 44F

4/30/2017 10:50 am

"Early one morning the sun was shining, she was lying in bed, wondering if she's changed at all, if her hair was still red..." Thanks for your words on Dylan. I'm a bit of a music geek and he's inspired me to write songs and poetry and even to pick up the guitar. I bought a book of his lyrics, just love it. I'll have to check out his new material.


aliljaded 53F
8847 posts
4/29/2017 8:21 pm

    Quoting  :

I've seen him so many times live (w/ The Grateful Dead *original*) and by himself.
(never ending tour) He puts on a great show.

"Men need to hunt. She obviously understands this. She’s offering herself as prey. Not easy prey. But willing.”


aliljaded 53F
8847 posts
4/29/2017 8:17 pm

    Quoting trueslavee:
    I wholehearted agree with you, just bought triplicate on 180 gram vinyl(numbered limited edition version), and am going to see bob, willie, Sheryl, and Jason isbell at the jla in Detroit this summer. these last 3 albums show bob changing his vocals once again and he pulls it off!
Wow... @ numbered limited addition!!! Lucky Man !!!! Play it in good health.

"Men need to hunt. She obviously understands this. She’s offering herself as prey. Not easy prey. But willing.”


trueslavee 63M
81 posts
4/29/2017 5:13 pm

I wholehearted agree with you, just bought triplicate on 180 gram vinyl(numbered limited edition version), and am going to see bob, willie, Sheryl, and Jason isbell at the jla in Detroit this summer. these last 3 albums show bob changing his vocals once again and he pulls it off!


aliljaded 53F
8847 posts
4/29/2017 4:03 pm

This is Bob like You've never heard him .....

"Men need to hunt. She obviously understands this. She’s offering herself as prey. Not easy prey. But willing.”



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