“Beyond here lies nothin’ but the mountains of the past.”
Mark it down, one of the best songs of 2009 has been released on March 30. Right now at Bob Dylan.com you can stream a new song, “Beyond Here Lies Nothin.” You can also download it there for free TODAY ONLY! So get over there.
This is the first song we’ve heard from Dylan’s forthcoming album, Together Through Life (April 28), and it sounds spectacular. Dylan growls and snarls as horns, an accordion, and a dirty blues guitar back him up and carry this southern-tango into some timeless era on the border between the US and Mexico. The song boasts an energy that we haven’t seen in Dylan since 2001’s “Love and Theft” and it weds a sense of mystery with a menacing playfulness in a way that only Bob Dylan has mastered. It seems that as he gets older, he just gets better. He’s continuing an exploration of American music traditions that has kept him busy for the last fifteen years, proving that no one can conjure up ghosts from dusty American music like him.
April 28th cannot get here fast enough.
