New Morning
Occupation
- Bob Dylan, vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, organ, piano
- David Bromberg, electric guitar, dobro
- Harvey Brooks, E -Bass
- Ray Cornelius, electric guitar
- Charlie Daniels, electric guitar
- Buzzy Feiten, electric guitar
- Al Kooper, organ, piano, electric guitar, horn
- Russ Kunkel, drums
- Billy Mundi, drums
- Hilda Harris, Albertine Robinson, Maeretha Stewart, backing vocals
New Morning is the 11th studio album by American musician Bob Dylan. It was produced by Bob Johnston and published in October 1970 on Columbia Records.
It was published a few months after the controversial Self Portrait - discussed and received much better reviews than its predecessor. Dylan sang no longer croon in the country, but with his well-known voice, which was for their " nasal sound " notorious.
Musically turned Nashville Skyline and New Morning as Self Portrait between country music and rock, this album has also sporadically pop and jazz sounds.
In the UK it reached # 1 on the album charts in the United States rank seventh Man imputed Dylan album to have produced quickly to restore its reputation among critics after the weak Self Portrait. However, Dylan stressed immediately and later in the Chronicles that New Morning had already been done to a large extent, as a Self Portrait was published.
Title list
About the album, some of the songs were known. If Not For You was a single, which also appeared on Dylan's Greatest Hits compilations. The Man in Me was therefore particularly known when he was played in 1998 increased in the Coen Brothers film The Big Lebowski. Father of Night is Dylan's version of the Jewish Eighteen Benedictions and was, among other things was covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band as Father of Day, Father of Night.
It is often speculated that Went to See the Gypsy came after Dylan Elvis Presley hit. Dylan has never expressed about the background of the song, but in 2009 he announced in an interview with Rolling Stone that he had never met Presley.
Reception
Was created in 2009 in Rolling Stone a revaluation, which gave the album five out of five stars. The former Ralph J. Gleason Rezensist wrote about New Morning enthusiastic: WE'VE GOT DYLAN BACK AGAIN!. A few zeitgenönissche Rezensisten placed it even among his works of the 1960s, but hauptmerklich was noted that New Morning was a significant improvement to Self Portrait.
Today's reviews no longer speak at New Morning of a masterpiece and it wins no special place in Dylan's discography. Nevertheless, modern reviews are still positive. Allmusic.com gave New Morning 4.5 out of 5 stars.