By Patrick Luce Mar 18, 2009, 15:28 GMT
Music icon Bob Dylan is scheduled to release his latest studio album, ‘Together Through Life,’ on April 28th from Columbia Records. The album is Dylan’s first new studio release since 2006.
‘Together Though Life’ was produced by Jack Frost, and was recorded in 2008. The album was spurred by the writing of a new song, “Life Is Hard” – which was penned for the upcoming film by French director Oliver Dahan (La Vie En Rose).
The new album will be Dylan’s 46th release and comes on the heels of 2006’s Platinum success ‘Modern Times’ - which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 and reached the top of the charts in seven additional countries and the Top 5 in 22 countries around the world.
Dylan’s past three studio albums have been considered as among the best of his iconic 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.
His most recent studio work, ‘Modern Times,’ became one of his biggest albums worldwide, selling more than 2.5 million copies and earning Dylan two more Grammys.
Those three studio albums fell within a ten-year creative span that also included an Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning tune, “Things Have Changed,” from the film Wonder Boys, in 2001, a worldwide best selling memoir, Chronicles, which spent 19 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List, in 2004, a Martin Scorsese-directed documentary, No Direction Home, in 2005, and several volumes of the best-selling Bootleg Series, which culminated in last year’s highly-acclaimed Tell Tale Signs.
Dylan 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 Kennedy Center Honors in 1997, the French Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 1990, Sweden’s Polar Music Award in 2000 and numerous other awards and accolades.
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