Bob Dylan releasing second Standards album

Bob Dylan may have enough new recordings of standards to fill another album.

The singer released Shadows in the Night last month, filled with standards from the 30's through the 50's, last month to surprisingly strong sales. Now, producer Daniel Lanois tells The Vancouver Sun (via Rolling Stone) that he's heard another album worth of material.

"He felt that a lot of that music was written not only by great professional songwriters at the time, but a lot of it was written from the heart, from the wartime and [by] people just pining for a lover. He felt there was a lot of spirit in that music. He felt there was a kind of beauty, a sacred ground for him. After having said all that, we then listened to the music, and I felt everything that he talked about. For one of America's great writers to say, 'I'm not gonna write a song; I'm gonna pay homage to what shook me as young boy,' I thought was very graceful and dignified."

On Monday, Dylan released the video for the song The Night We Called It a Day from the Shadows in the Night album.



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