2009 holiday release, the first Christmas album from the legendaryFolk/Rock singer/songwriter. Christmas In The Heart is Dylan's 47th album and follows the worldwide success of his album Together Through Life. In a commitment to ending hunger, all of Bob Dylan's U.S. current and future royalties from sales of Christmas In The Heart will be donated in perpetuity to Feeding America, guaranteeing that more than four million meals will be provided to over 1.4 million people in need in this country during this year's holiday season. 15 tracks including 'Here Comes Santa Claus', 'Winter Wonderland', 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' and many others.

I heard a few clips recently. Horrifyingly bad.

so wrong

47 albums!?!?

Jeez alou.

I want to thank him for putting this out, if only for the collective comments in this thread.

Those cops in Jersey will know his name for sure after this hits the streets...

Also I love the Citibank tie-in.

Dat Bob, still goofing on the unwashed masses.

Selling his most beloved songs to banks is definitely a hilarious goof.

Man, I don't know if my fanhood cane make me listen to this.

He sold his music to Victoria's Secret for a commercial for... Christ's... sake. He has gone to lands no man has known. He is completely removed from needing you or your approval. He has always been about being in a space his art demands... that is what amuses him.

And, his last couple of albums have been invocations of the Tin Pan Alley american pop music tradition... and what could be more appropriate than our own Irving Berlin, covering (so to speak) us with a very White Christmas.

I would probably go further and say that not only does he not need your approval, he really doesn't want it.

I just find it annoying that he gets a pass for anything because he's the voice of a generation...oh that rascal Bob, his genius has taken him above and beyond self-actualization, he's beaten Jesus at his own game, spoken the word of god and lived past 27. He'll probably start doing street mime and never sing or play a word of music again and he'd still be praised as a musical genius...."you can't even hear the words anymore, he physically moves them through the ether"

When what he should be doing is donating a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape to every sweater wearing wanker with a tasteful abode and a penchant for terribly amusing dinner parties.

This post is beginning to reveal it's brilliance.

was everyone too afraid to tell him this was a bad idea

So, cut to the quick... do you think he is uniquely important, significant? Or is just a singer/songwriter?

I am checking this out, thanks D

Of course he's important and significant, but I'll subtract the 'uniquely' adjective because that's precisely what I personally find irritating about Dylan. I'm an fan of his music but the cult of Bob, his own self-created mythology and by extension Dylanology is complete bullshit in my opinion.

Basically, if he had died in that motorcycle crash, the only things we would have missed were Before the Flood and The Last Waltz - you can basically have everything else back.

I won't be listening to this, unless Bloor and I decide to have "Garage and Garden Hose" Christmas Party.

And the basement tapes and blood on the tracks

If there even was a motorcycle crash .

But yeah, he should have been died tragically, falling down the stairs in Woodstock saving Richard Manual from tripping over a gas can. After finishing what became of The Basement Tapes of course.

so on first listen, weirdly funny, bizarre, run of the mill, yes it will be played at the mall, but I can't hate it, its just christmas music

One could say this about any sacred cow singer or band with any kind of longevity, including singers/bands with cults to which any of us belong to.

That said, i'm curious as to how bad this is.

Yeah I guess but you have to admit, Dylan has, and for this I'll use the term, 'unique' followers who have hung on his words like they came from on high, speculating and debating their meaning. Perhaps that speaks to how special he is, or maybe it's just people who are susceptible to finding heightened meaning in words. Like I said I'm a fan, I've heard all the records and like the majority but c'mon it's bullshit that he gets a pass for selling his technically most important song to a bank and others to lingerie companies and releasing novelty records simply because he's <awed hush>... Bob Dylan.