Inside Bob Dylan's Shadow Kingdom I: The Recording
Guitarist Ira Ingber remembers the secret recording sessions
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Bob Dylan’s performance film Shadow Kingdom premiered four years ago this week. To celebrate, I’m sharing two new interviews that go behind-the-scenes on this pandemic project. The first today looks at the recording side; the second will look at the filming side. Because, as I think is well-known by now, not only was Shadow Kingdom not performed live, the musicians who appeared on screen were not the same musicians who recorded the music. There are really two different Shadow Kingdoms—the album and the film—and each has its own supporting cast.
One of the musicians who recorded the music itself, before the filming, is Ira Ingber. We last heard from Ira discussing Empire Burlesque and his other ’80s sessions with Dylan. Shadow Kingdom came up a couple times in passing there (I want to hear Dylan’s aborted Chuck Berry cover!), but, as promised, there was a lot more. So, today, we kick off Shadow KingdomWeek at Flagging Down the Double E’s with the second half of my conversation with Ira, entirely focused on the secret recording sessions that created the music you hear in the film and on the soundtrack album.
If you haven’t read the first half, you might start there. We pick up right where we left off…
if you play one thing here today make it this . . . . . .
Shadow Kingdom - Queen Jane Approximately - Bob Dylan 1986
