Bob Dylan to release 'surprise' new album in April
Bob Dylan performing in 2006 in New Orleans ... ten new songs are due next month. Photograph: Andrew Goetz/Corbis
Bob Dylan
has announced a "surprise" new album to be released next month. The
as-yet untitled album will be Dylan's first studio release since 2006's
Modern Times.
The album comes just a few months after Tell Tale Signs, a compilation of outtakes, and was itself inspired by a one
-off tune for filmmaker Olivier Dahan. The director of La Vie En Rose asked Dylan to write a song for My Own Love Song, his upcoming movie starring Renée Zellweger. The result was Life Is Hard, a bleak, mandolin-stung ballad. But Dylan didn't stop there – he kept writing and recording with his road band, putting ten new originals to tape.
As always, Dylan served as his own producer, working under the pseudonym Jack Frost.
The album is filled with "raw-country love songs, sly wordplay" and a "seductive border-cafe feel", according to Rolling Stone. Accordion features on every track, thanks to Los Lobos' David Hidalgo.
Besides struggling with love on songs like This Dream Of You and Beyond Here Lies Nothin', Dylan also addresses the dismal state of the world economy. "State gone broke, the country's dry," he sings on My Wife's Home Town. But at least he's got the money from that Co-op advert.
The album comes just a few months after Tell Tale Signs, a compilation of outtakes, and was itself inspired by a one
-off tune for filmmaker Olivier Dahan. The director of La Vie En Rose asked Dylan to write a song for My Own Love Song, his upcoming movie starring Renée Zellweger. The result was Life Is Hard, a bleak, mandolin-stung ballad. But Dylan didn't stop there – he kept writing and recording with his road band, putting ten new originals to tape.
As always, Dylan served as his own producer, working under the pseudonym Jack Frost.
The album is filled with "raw-country love songs, sly wordplay" and a "seductive border-cafe feel", according to Rolling Stone. Accordion features on every track, thanks to Los Lobos' David Hidalgo.
Besides struggling with love on songs like This Dream Of You and Beyond Here Lies Nothin', Dylan also addresses the dismal state of the world economy. "State gone broke, the country's dry," he sings on My Wife's Home Town. But at least he's got the money from that Co-op advert.
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