This comment is going to sound disingenuous coming after the album's already been released, but I kind of figured Shadows would sound something like it does. Obviously, Sinatra has sang plenty of low-key, downbeat material, and I figured Bob would be smart enough to not try and go the big band route. When he started saying in interviews that it would be a fairly stripped down album, and when I heard the name, the sound of the album started to form in my mind, and it wasn't very different from what we got.
The album is better than I expected, though, and John is absolutely right in calling Dylan's rendition of "Lucky Old Sun" glorious.
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