Columbia Records announced that Bob Dylan's new studio album, Shadows In The Night, will be released on
February 3, 2015. Featuring ten tracks, the Jack Frost-produced album is the
36th studio set from Bob Dylan and marks the first new music from the artist
since 2012's worldwide hit Tempest.
Upon
Columbia's announcement of the album's forthcoming release, Bob Dylan
commented, "It was a real privilege to make this album. I've wanted to do
something like this for a long time but was never brave enough to approach
30-piece complicated arrangements and refine them down for a 5-piece band.
That's the key to all these performances. We knew these songs extremely well.
It was all done live. Maybe one or two takes. No overdubbing. No vocal booths.
No headphones. No separate tracking, and, for the most part, mixed as it was
recorded. I don't see myself as covering these songs in any way. They've been
covered enough. Buried, as a matter a fact. What me and my band are basically
doing is uncovering them. Lifting them out of the grave and bringing them into
the light of day."
As
Columbia Records Chairman Rob Stringer explains, "There are no strings,
obvious horns, background vocals or other such devices often found on albums
that feature standard ballads. Instead,
Bob has managed to find a way to infuse these songs with new life and
contemporary relevance. It is a brilliant record and we are extremely excited
to be presenting it to the world very soon."
Bob
Dylan's five previous studio albums have been universally hailed as among the
best of his storied career, achieving new levels of commercial success and
critical acclaim for the artist. The Platinum-selling Time Out Of Mind from
1997 earned multiple Grammy Awards, including Album Of The Year, while
"Love and Theft" continued Dylan's Platinum streak and earned several
Grammy nominations and a statue for Best Contemporary Folk album.
Modern
Times, released in 2006, became one of the artist's most popular albums, selling
more than 2.5 million copies worldwide and earning Dylan two more Grammys.
Together Through Life became the artist's first album to debut at #1 in both
the U.S. and the UK, as well as in five other countries, on its way to
surpassing sales of one million copies. Tempest received unanimous worldwide
critical acclaim upon release and reached the Top 5 in 14 countries, while the
artist's globe-spanning concert tours of the past few years have heavily
emphasized that album's singular repertoire.
These
five releases fell within a 15-year creative span that also included the
recording of an Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning composition, "Things Have
Changed," from the film Wonder Boys, in 2001; a worldwide best-selling
memoir, Chronicles Vol. 1, which spent 19 weeks on the New York Times Best
Seller List, in 2004, and a Martin Scorsese-directed documentary, No Direction
Home, in 2005. Bob Dylan also released his first collection of holiday
standards, Christmas In The Heart, in 2009, with all of the artist's royalties
from that album being donated to hunger charities around the world.
In
recent years, Bob Dylan was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
the United States' highest civilian honor. He was awarded a special Pulitzer
Prize in 2008 for "his profound impact on popular music and American
culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." He
was also the recipient of the Officier de la Legion d'honneur in 2013, Sweden's
Polar Music Award in 2000, Doctorates from the University of St. Andrews and
Princeton University, as well as numerous other honors.
Bob
Dylan has sold more than 125 million records around the world.
SHADOWS
IN THE NIGHT TRACK LISTING:
1. I'm A Fool To Want You
2. The Night We Called It A Day
3. Stay With Me
4. Autumn Leaves
5. Why Try to Change Me Now
6. Some Enchanted Evening
7. Full Moon And Empty Arms
8. Where Are You?
9. What'll I Do
10. That Lucky Old Sun
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