That new Bob Dylan album we have been telling you about will be called ‘Together Through Life’ and it will double as a movie soundtrack.
Dylan says he wanted to make a record that sounded like the 50s, like the classic rock and roll albums from the Chess and Sun studios.In an interview with Bill Flanagan, Dylan said, “the old Chess records, the Sun records. . . I think that’s my favorite sound for a record”.
And you can hear it in the songs. “Some of the things do have that feel. It’s mostly in the way the instruments were played”.
Dylan says there was a sound he was going for on ‘Together Through Life’. “I like the mood of those records - the intensity. The sound is uncluttered,” he says. “There’s power and suspense. The whole vibration feels like it could be coming from inside your mind. It’s alive. It’s right there. Kind of sticks in your head like a toothache.”
About, “My Own Love Song”, the movie it will be used for, Dylan told Flanagan, “The French director, Olivier Dahan, approached me about composing some songs for a film he was writing and directing”.
Dahan was also a video producer. He directed ‘Salvation’ for The Cranberries.
Dylan’s ‘Together Through Life’ will be released next month.
