Bob Dylan - Shadows in the Night (2015) FLAC Beolab1700

Bob Dylan - Shadows in the Night (2015) FLAC Beolab1700



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Bob Dylan - Shadows in the Night
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Artist...............: Bob Dylan
Album................: Shadows in the Night
Genre................: Folk-Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2015
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 41 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
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Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 30/01/2015


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Tracklisting
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1. Bob Dylan - Some Enchanted Evening [03:27]
2. Bob Dylan - Autumn Leaves [03:00]
3. Bob Dylan - Full Moon and Empty Arms [03:25]
4. Bob Dylan - What'll I Do [03:19]
5. Bob Dylan - Where Are You? [03:36]
6. Bob Dylan - The Night We Called It a Day [03:23]
7. Bob Dylan - Why Try to Change Me Now [03:37]
8. Bob Dylan - Stay with Me [02:55]
9. Bob Dylan - That Lucky Old Sun [03:35]
10. Bob Dylan - I'm a Fool to Want You [04:50]

Playing Time.........: 35:13


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It’s obviously up against some stiff competition from lingerie adverts and festive albums that came with free Christmas cards, but there’s an argument that Shadows in the Night may be the most improbable moment yet in Bob Dylan’s latterday career. By releasing a collection of standards from the Great American Songbook, Dylan, presumably inadvertently, joins in a trend begun 14 years ago by Robbie Williams. Ever since Williams proved that you could sell 7m copies of Swing When You’re Winning to an audience who’d never previously evinced much interest in the work of Cole Porter or Johnny Mercer, the Great American Songbook album has become a kind of sine qua non among rock stars of a certain vintage. They’ve all been at it, from Paul McCartney to Carly Simon to Linda Ronstadt. Rod Stewart seemed to treat the whole business less like a canny career move than a terrible endurance test to inflict on the general public. By the time he released his fifth Great American Songbook collection, you got the feeling that even the most indefatigable fan of the jazzy standard was on the floor tearfully pleading for mercy, and in danger of developing a nervous twitch brought on by the opening chords of Mack the Knife.

However, Dylan has latterly made a career out of doing the exact opposite of what most of his peers do. They dutifully tour their big hits, or perform classic albums in order; he takes to the stage and either brilliantly reinterprets his back catalogue or wilfully mangles it beyond repair, depending on whether you’re the kind of critic who gets whole paragraphs out of a change of syllabic emphasis in the lyrics of All Along the Watchtower or an audience member who’s heard three-quarters of Like a Rolling Stone without realising it’s Like a Rolling Stone. They make albums that cravenly attempt to conjure up the atmosphere of their best-loved classic works; he makes albums that conjure up a world before Bob Dylan existed – filled with music that sounds like blues or rockabilly or country from an age when pop was as yet untouched by his influence.

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