Fallen Angels
Crooning with tender emotion, Dylan floats through the Sinatra songbook on this gently swinging companion to 2015’s *Shadows in the Night*. Like its predecessor, *Fallen Angels* is filled with rootsy renditions of standards (“Skylark,” \"Come Rain or Come Shine\") and some obscure gems (Peter DeRose and Billy Hill’s “On a Little Street in Singapore”). But even when Dylan glides through something as familiar as “That Old Black Magic,” the intimate setting and his effortless delivery make it a refreshing delight.
Following on last year's Frank Sinatra tribute Shadows in the Night, Dylan's latest finds him once again putting his own idiosyncratic spin on a set of standards.
Every now and then, a new-model Bob Dylan comes along to replace the old one, much to the delight or consternation of fans. Some Dylans have been better than others. Most everyone digs the idealistic protest singer, the wild-eyed rock ’n’ roll Picasso, and the reclusive basement taper. Fewer miss the live Bob Dylan At…
Although his impressions of Sinatra give an insight into the music of his formative years and remind of the beauty and genius of that era, they are unlikely to appeal very far beyond hardcore Dylan fans.
If you look at it from a certain perspective, it’s tempting to consider Bob Dylan’s career as little more than a series of…
The restrained picking and creamy pedal-steel guitar of his live band imposes a smooth but demotic country mood behind Dylan’s elegant, world-weary croon
Oh, Dylan. Whether he's going electric, going country, recording a Christmas album or an album of Sinatra standards, it's been made plain: D...