Another Bob Dylan Album of Frank Sinatra Covers Coming? Producer Daniel Lanois Says Enough Recordings Exist

Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra may not be done yet: Although the folk icon cracked the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 with Shadows in The Night, a collection of Old Blue Eyes covers, a new interview with the Vancouver Sun suggests that a whole other collection of songs exists.

"He came to my house eight or six months ago and spent a few hours...We listened to 21 songs-because he's made two records of this," producer Daniel Lanois said. "He felt there was a lot of spirit in that music. He felt there was a kind of beauty, a sacred ground for him...For one of America's great writers to say, 'I'm not gonna write a song; I'm gonna pay homage to what shook me as young boy,' I thought was very graceful and dignified."

Lanois didn't actually work on Shadows in The Night with Dylan—he has worked with the songwriter before however—so he can't be expected to know what Zimmy plans on doing with the unused tracks. No one else has offered any suggestion however, as Rolling Stone reports that representatives for the performer hadn't responded to calls for comment.

Shadows in The Night featured 10 songs and Lanois stated that he heard a total of 21, so there's more than enough gas in the tank for a second album. Just because Dylan has recordings ready to go doesn't mean that the general public will get them however, as fans of the icon's Basement Tapes series are aware. It's hard to imagine that any performer on Earth has a larger catalogue of recordings that haven't seen the light of day yet, and Dylan is long past the period where he would release multiple records on a yearly basis. His recent release was his first new LP in three years. If the public is to hear the other Sinatra recordings, it could be a while.

Or maybe he's distributing it exclusively to the AARP.

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