Bob Dylan on covering Sinatra: Frank 'is the mountain'

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Bob Dylan has been thinking about doing an album of songs made famous by Frank Sinatra since he heard Willie Nelson's album Stardust in the late 1970s, he tells Robert Love in AARP The Magazine — an interview Dylan requested, his one and only for the album Shadows in the Night. Longtime fans shouldn't be surprised by his Sinatra album, Dylan said, because he's played most of the standards over the years.

"To trash those songs would be sacrilegious," he tells Love. "And we've all heard those songs being trashed, and we're used to it. In some kind of ways you want to right the wrong." He continues:

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.