“I mean, I’m not one of these Dylan … … what do they call them … ‘Dylanologists’ to get on chat lines and discuss every lyric and everything. “With a catalog like Dylan’s, there’s so much there,” Hynde says. “When I saw Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder doc on Netflix, I had no idea was that crazy during that time.” “I just love always discovering new Dylan stuff and discovering old albums,” Walbourne says, on a break from learning the chords to the Infidels-era outtake “Blind Willie McTell” on the piano. And they interpreted the gentle “Sweetheart Like You,” from Infidels - the album Dylan was touring on when Hynde joined him at Wembley - and made it sound sparse, with just guitar, piano, and Hynde’s voice.
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They took the gospel-tinged Time Out of Mind number “Standing in the Doorway” and opened the windows on it, making it into something more uplifting. They made Blood on the Tracks’ “You’re a Big Girl Now” sound a little more country and contemplative.
I love working with him.”Īfter she was pleased with the finished product, she started picking more songs. “Then we sent it to Tchad Blake, who is out in the wilds of Wales, to mix it.
“I sent James a rhythm track on my phone, he added to it, and I put a vocal to it,” she says, explaining their quarantine-era methodology. Hynde and Walbourne toughened it up a little with some forceful acoustic guitar, a lusher chorus, and an organ replacing some of the harmonica, as she hung onto his words to fit them to her voice. In late April, Hynde and Walbourne released the first installment of what they dubbed their “Dylan Lockdown Series,” “In the Summertime.” Dylan’s version of the track, which appeared on his 1981 LP Shot of Love, was a mid-tempo, harmonica-soaked nostalgia piece. She’d seen Dylan live a few times with the band’s lead guitarist, James Walbourne, and had remarked to him she would love to cover some Dylan songs. Hynde had planned on hitting the road this spring with the Pretenders, in support of their hard-hitting new album, Hate for Sale, but now she had an empty diary. “Any singer-songwriter would like to do every Bob Dylan song they can get their hands on, and there’s thousands to choose from,” she says.
She had grown up with Dylan’s music and has had the opportunity to pay tribute to him in the past - she joined him at Wembley Stadium for renditions of “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat” and “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” in 1984, and she sang a stunning rendition of “I Shall Be Released” to him at his 1992 30th anniversary concert - but she has long wanted to do more. I’ve gone to see shows of his and there are grown men, older than me, standing up, like, in tears just because he’s there.”Īfter Dylan released another new song, “I Contain Multitudes,” that she found “fucking devastating,” she realized that now was the perfect time to pay tribute to a man who had inspired her for most of her life. Then I was thinking about Bob and how significant he’s been throughout my lifetime - and everyone’s lives. “I remembered exactly where I was sitting in the sixth grade at my desk when the news came over the Tannoy system. “It brought back my whole childhood and my past,” she says. So with no outside distractions, the song teleported her back to her youth. Like everyone, she was in what she describes as an “odd frame of mind” due to the pandemic-related lockdowns that had gone into effect a few weeks earlier. “It really knocked me sideways,” she tells Rolling Stone. Kennedy and surprise-released in late March, she was caught by surprise. When Chrissie Hynde heard Bob Dylan’s “Murder Most Foul,” the 17-minute elegy he had recorded about John F.
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