Columbia Records announced today that Bob Dylan’s new studio album,
Tempest, will be released on September 11, 2012. Featuring ten new and
original Bob Dylan songs, the release of Tempest coincides with the
50th Anniversary of the artist’s eponymous debut album, which was
released by Columbia in 1962.
Tempest is available for pre-order now on iTunes and Amazon.
The new album, produced by Jack Frost, is the 35thth studio set from
Bob Dylan, and follows 2009’s worldwide best-seller, Together Through
Life.
Bob Dylan’s four previous studio albums have been universally hailed
as among the best of his storied career, achieving new levels of
commercial success and critical acclaim for the artist. The
Platinum-selling Time Out Of Mind from 1997 earned multiple Grammy
Awards, including Album Of The Year, while “Love and Theft” continued
Dylan’s Platinum streak and earned several Grammy nominations and a
statue for Best Contemporary Folk album.
Modern Times, released in 2006, became one of the artist’s most
popular albums, selling more than 2.5 million copies worldwide and
earning Dylan two more Grammys. Together Through Life became the
artist’s first album to debut at #1 in both the U.S. and the UK, as well
as in five other countries, on its way to surpassing sales of one
million copies.
Those four releases fell within a 12-year creative span that also
included the recording of an Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning
composition, “Things Have Changed,” from the film Wonder Boys, in 2001; a
worldwide best-selling memoir, Chronicles Vol. 1, which spent 19 weeks
on the New York Times Best Seller List, in 2004, and a Martin
Scorsese-directed documentary, No Direction Home, in 2005. Bob Dylan
also released his first collection of holiday standards, Christmas In
The Heart, in 2009, with all of the artist’s royalties from that album
being donated to hunger charities around the world.
This year, Bob Dylan was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. He was awarded a special
Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for “his profound impact on popular music and
American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic
power.” He was also the recipient of the French Commandeur des Arts et
des Lettres in 1990, Sweden’s Polar Music Award in 2000 and several
Doctorates including the University of St. Andrews and Princeton
University as well as numerous other honors.
Tempest is available for pre-order now on iTunes and Amazon
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Tuesday, 17 July 2012
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