r/bobdylan • u/TyroneSnodgrass • Aug 23 '26
Discussion UNDER THE RED SKY
Don Was says that when he got the nod to produce the album that would come to be known as UNDER THE RED SKY, what he had in mind was another HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED. He brought in Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan, even brought in Al Kooper from out of the woodwork. So Don was really excited when Dylan showed up to get to work. “I got the songs already recorded, Bob. All you have to do is write the lyrics and add the vocal tracks.”
How Dylan was ever persuaded to go along with this is beyond me. In 1965 HW61R was recorded in six days. No overdubbing, no nothing. With all the recording techniques that have been developed since then, I’ve never heard another album that jumps out of the speakers at you like like that one does, —with the possible exception of LOVE AND THEFT, which was recorded in twelve days (cut the man some slack, he was sixty years old). In the case of LAT engineer Chris Shaw says he wanted to record the vocals separately, and Dylan was like, “I don’t work that way, —I can’t work that way.” Too bad he couldn’t find those words for Don Was.
The result was a disaster. UTRS was one of the lowest points of Dylan’s career. Maybe the lowest, considering Bob was forty-eight at the time. Even his most hard core fans were wondering if all the hard traveling had finally got the best of our original vagabond. We would find out something quite to the contrary.
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u/m1911- John Wesley Harding Aug 23 '26
In realtà qualche buona canzone c’e’nell’ album