Bob Dylan recently released an album of Frank Sinatra covers called Shadows in the Night, as an homage to the music that was sacred to him as a child.
According to occasional Dylan collaborator, Daniel Lanois, “He felt that a lot of that music was written not only by great professional songwriters at the time, but [also] a lot of it was written from the heart, from the wartime and [by] people just pining for a lover. He felt there was a lot of spirit in that music. He felt there was a kind of beauty, a sacred ground for him. After having said all that, we then listened to the music, and I felt everything that he talked about. For one of America’s great writers to say, ‘I’m not gonna write a song; I’m gonna pay homage to what shook me as young boy’, I thought was very graceful and dignified.”
Dylan’s album Shadows in the Night was released on 3 February and is available on iTunes. Rumour has it that he’ll release a Sinatra sequel album, too. In the meantime, why not watch this video of Dylan’s take on The Night We Called it a Day?
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