Bob Dylan
Shadow Kingdom COLUMBIA/LEGACY
Not over yet, Baby Blue.
One might wonder why Bob Dylan, who has just turned 82, would still want to be singing Forever Young, the lullaby he wrote for his eldest son Jesse that appeared on 1974’s Planet Waves. But intimations of mortality can provide a lease of life.
Out of the blue, in 2021 Dylan filmed a club gig in Santa Monica that was directed by Alma Har’el in a mythical bordello setting, an imaginary dive in Marseilles called Bon Bon Club where indifferent cowboy punters loom like ghosts from an American-noir nightmare, rough but hardly rowdy. That film, subtitled The Early Songs Of Bob Dylan, was initially a shortlived stream, although it’s soon to be available on Apple TV.