CHRISTMAS ALWAYS STARTS WITH DYLAN!
The Story of Bob Dylan's Christmas album from 1965 :: Christmas In The Heart
When Bob Dylan’s Christmas album appeared in 2009, it was both totally unexpected and 44 years overdue. In this instance, we’re glad he waited. Christmas in the Heart features Dylan singing songs you know by heart in a voice without restraint. There’s fun for the whole family, and all for a good cause. It’s enough to make a believer out of anyone.
In 1975, the New Musical Express (NME) published a report on Bob Dylan’s Christmas album. Even then, the story was a decade old.
It went like this: In the fall of 1965, after releasing Highway 61 Revisited, but before beginning Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan recorded a Christmas LP. The album collected Dylan originals, including “Farewell Angelina,” and “She’s Your Lover Now,” alongside Christmas classics, such as “Silent Night,” and “White Christmas.” Dylan sang “Frosty the Snowman,” in an early version of his Nashville Skyline voice and followed it with a reading from the Gospel of Mathew. Rumored participants included Phil Spector, Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, Edie Sedgwick, and a young Ry Cooder.
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