New Morning (Bob Dylan Album)
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19th October 1970 |
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Rock , country rock , country |
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12 |
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35:21 |
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New Morning is the eleventh studio album by Bob Dylan . It was produced by Bob Johnston and was released on Columbia Records in October 1970 .
The album was released a few months after the controversial Self Portrait and received significantly better reviews than its predecessor. Dylan no longer sang in country croon , but in his familiar nasal voice.
Musically, New Morning, like Nashville Skyline and Self Portrait, moves between country music and rock, although this album also features occasional pop and jazz tones .
It peaked at number 1 on the album charts in the UK and number 7 in the US. Dylan was believed to have produced the album quickly to restore its reputation with post- Self Portrait critics . However, Dylan emphasized immediately and later in the Chronicles that New Morning was largely finished when Self Portrait was published.
Track list
- If Not For You - 2:39
- Day of the Locusts - 3:57
- Time Passes Slowly - 2:33
- Went to See the Gypsy - 2:49
- Winterlude - 2:21
- If Dogs Run Free - 3:37
- New Morning - 3:56
- Sign on the Window - 3:39
- One More Weekend - 3:09
- The Man in Me - 3:07
- Three Angels - 2:07
- Father of Night - 1:27
Songs
Some of the songs became known beyond the album. If Not For You was a single that also appeared on Dylan's Greatest Hits compilations. The title The Man in Me became particularly famous because it was played several times in the Coen brothers film The Big Lebowski in 1998 . Father of Night, Dylan's version of the Jewish eighteen petition prayer , was covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band as Father of Day, Father of Night .
There has been much speculation about whether Went to See the Gypsy came into being after Dylan met Elvis Presley . Dylan never commented on the background of the song, but in 2009 he confessed in an interview with Rolling Stone that he had never met Presley.
reception
In 2009 there was a re-rating in Rolling Stone , which gave the album five stars out of five. The then reviewer Ralph J. Gleason wrote enthusiastically about New Morning : WE'VE GOT DYLAN BACK AGAIN! Some contemporary reviewers even placed it under his 1960s work, but the main point was that New Morning was a marked improvement on Self Portrait .
The German music magazine Sounds stated that the album was not perfect, but contained "enough feeling, simplicity, naturalness and warmth to be successful". Dylan is no longer a "hero" as he was in the 1960s, but as a "friend" he is still invaluable.
Today's reviews no longer speak of a masterpiece at New Morning either; it doesn't get a special place in Dylan's discography, but it still gets positive reviews. Allmusic.com gave New Morning 4.5 out of 5 stars.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/neilmccormick/9729738/Bono_versus_Elvis_the_poem/
- ↑ Brinkley, Douglas (5-14-2009) Rolling Stone issue # 1078, pp. 48
- ↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bobdylan/albums/album/99583/review/5944026/new_morning ( Memento from January 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Sounds. Plates 66-77 . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1979, p. 171.
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/new-morning-mw0000204924
