Bob Dylan: Fallen Angels review – easygoing charm

(Columbia)The meeting of grizzled musical icon and great American songbook has yielded variable results, but Dylan got it right with last year’s Shadows in the Night, his take on songs once sung by Frank Sinatra. He shows the same sure hand and musician’s affection here for a collection of standards by writers such as Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen. His vocals are engaging, the arrangements are sensitive and spare – gently brushed drums and steel guitar on Polka Dots and Moo...

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