Chrissie Hynde Announces New Album of Bob Dylan Covers
Standing in the Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan.
The nine-track collection will be released digitally on May 21 and then physically in both CD and vinyl format a few months later on Aug. 20.
Hynde s Dylan covers began as a mostly casual affair for an eight-part YouTube series she launched with Pretenders guitarist James Walbourne. The project was inspired by her being off the road last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, as well as Dylan s latest album, 2020 s
“A few weeks into lockdown last year, James sent me the new Dylan track, ‘Murder Most Foul,’” Hynde said in a statement. “Listening to that song completely changed everything for me. I was lifted out of this morose mood that I’d been in. I remember where I was sitting the day that Kennedy was shot - every reference in the song. Whatever Bob does, he still manages somewhere in there to make you laugh because as much as anything, he’s a comedi