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Bob Dylan is set to release his 36th studio album Shadows In The Light in February 2015, which features reintepretations of a number of jazz standards.
First revealed in a flyer inside Dylan's latest Basement Tapes boxset, Shadow In The Light contains ten tracks and is produced by 'Jack Frost' (Dylan himself).
Bob Dylan explained: “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."
The tracklisting that features a number of jazz standards favoured by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Frankie Laine. But Dylan himself insists it isn't a covers album per se. "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 Columba 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."
The tracklisting is the following:
1. I'm A Fool To Want You (Frank Sinatra)
2. The Night We Called It A Day (Sinatra and others)
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
