“As an encore at almost every show on his North American tour last fall, Bob Dylan performed an unlikely ballad: "Stay With Me," recorded by Frank Sinatra on a 1964 single and written for a 1963 film, The Cardinal, about a young priest who ascends to a post in the Vatican. Sinatra cut the song, a prayer for guidance, as if from on high, in orchestration as grand as papal robes. On this quietly prov”
“Bob Dylan's 36th studio album is a collection of old jazz crooner standards most closely associated with Frank Sinatra. While it may prompt some exasperated debates, Shadows in the Night represents a lifelong appreciation for Sinatra, and Dylan is toasting a very specific era in pop songwriting.”
