New Bob Dylan track
Yup, just a couple of years after the rather great actually Modern Times, Bob Dylan has made the opening track on his new album Together Through Life available for just twenty-four hours. It’s called
So, what does it sound like? Well, I rate Dylan and if he dipped in the eighties (an accusation that was also levelled at Neil Young and David Bowie, amongst others), he’s certainly still continued to produce great stuff as the years have gone by. He may be of pensionable age, but his talent sure as heck isn’t.
A friend said they thought this sounded like ‘Black Magic Woman’ by Santana, but ‘in a good way.’ I hear an element of this. It’s certainly got quite…well, not a European feel per se , but certainly not just American. According to Uncut’s Allan Jones, “Dylan had been asked by the French film director Olivier Dahan, who made the Edith Piaf biopic, La Vie En Rose…to write some songs for his new movie, My Own Love Song. Dylan duly came up with a ballad called “Life Is Hard”, and was so inspired the next thing anyone knew he’d written nine more new songs and not long after that - bingo! - here’s Together Through Life in all its rowdy glory.”
Oh yeah…
so see what you think of this.
Bob Dylan -’Beyond Here Lies Nothin.’ mp3
Together Through Life is out on April 27.
Well, actually it reminds me just as much of Howlin’ Wolf’s “Who’s Been Talking”. But that’s all right, too - we’re definitely talking about Chess Records here.
Cheers
Martin
Actually Scott, Peter Green’s Black magic Woman
and Bob’s Beyond here lies nothin, both sound
like All your love by Otis Rush and Double
Trouble.
Regards Barbara.
Not so much a piss-take on “Black Magic Woman” as on Otis Rush, which is where Peter Greene and Carlos S. got a heap of their inspiration from in the first place.
Just like to point out that the sound of the song seems to get more of it’s inspiration from something like ‘All My Loving’ by Otis Rush. Check it out if you haven’t heard.
Its amazing that after almost 5 decades the man is still basically writing 12 bar blues. Thats almost as mind blowing as the 639 year performance of As Slow as Possible. A lot of songwriters start of by finding an inspiring chord sequence. Not Dylan. Arf! What a dude.
Got to say, I cant find the Dylan i love in Beyond Here Lies Nothin. And it does sound like Santana, with a kind of a Parisian thing goin on, unless thats my crappy laptop speakers making an organ sound like an accordion.
Long may he prosper tho….
Wow…shoulda posted more Dylan before, I’ve had 950 hits in the last twenty-four hours! Must check out the Otis Rush track.