In his memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, Bob Dylan wrote, “Things were pretty sleepy on the American music scene in the late ’50s and early ’60s. Popular radio was sort of at a standstill and filled ...

Most Bob Dylan fans gave up decades ago trying to predict where he would go next. So the news that the 73-year-old singer was recording an album of songs originally made famous by Frank Sinatra barely ...

This is no tribute album, neither is it a piece of opportunism, as Dylan has never traded on received ideas or well-tried music business tricks. Even his Christmas album was shot through with irony as ...

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Not for the first time, Newsweek has commissioned a panel of middle-aged dads to review a new album. This time, though, the record in question leans away from "dad-rock" and towards what might ...

For his upcoming 36th studio album, Bob Dylan is doing something he's never done before: tackling the Frank Sinatra songbook. Confirming rumors sparked when he started streaming a cover of Sinatra's ...

Bob Dylan's sojourn into the Great American Songbook for his recent Shadows in the Night LP may end up being more than just a one-time thing. Recalling a lengthy conversation before their private ...

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It’s unclear what other songs will be on the collection, though this week Dylan began ending his live set with “Stay With Me,” a track that Sinatra turned into a hit in 1964. Shadows In The Night will ...