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Oh Mercy is the twenty-sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on September 12, 1989, [1] by Columbia Records. Produced by Daniel Lanois, it was hailed by critics as a triumph for Dylan, after a string of poorly reviewed albums.
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Apr 10, 2023 · Like all the tracks on Oh Mercy, ‘Long Black Coat’ was recorded at night and carries a distinctly nocturnal atmosphere. Above a sea of singing cicadas, threads of acoustic guitar drenched in long-tailed delay bounce across the stereo field.
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I feel like all of Oh Mercy is a nighttime album. In my mind other standout after-hours tracks are “Simple Twist of Fate,” “Standing in the Doorway,” & “Things Have Changed.”
The songs on “Oh Mercy” are written by Bob Dylan mostly in a painting room that he arranged in his house in Malibu. After a row of disappointing albums bashed by the critics he came back with...
Jun 23, 2024 · This song from Oh Mercy was performed 286 times by Dylan between 1989 and 2013. The video below starts with a few seconds silence. The lyrics are at first hard to grasp although the chorus line is unmistakable: Not a word of goodbye not even a note. She gone with the man in the long black coat.
Jul 12, 2020 · Instead, the music was spacious yet claustrophobic, like the darkness of a humid summer night. (The record was cut at Lanois’ home studio in New Orleans, which probably contributed to its ...
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May 13, 2020 · Oh Mercy really is a breath of fresh air. After a decade of nothing but disappointments, with the only worthwhile album in his '80s output being a weird reggae-style pop rock album fused with folk, Dylan finally gives us the album we've been waiting for. The true successor to 1976's Desire.
