Bob Dylan Giving New Album Away to 50,000 AARP Magazine Subscribers

Bob Dylan‘s new album, Shadows in the Night, is composed of covers of songs once sung by Frank Sinatra. This week, Dylan did an interview with AARP the Magazine—his first interview in three years. And it’s also been announced that the album will be sent to 50,000 random AARP the Magazine subscribers. 

As he told AARP‘s Robert Love, “A lot of those readers are going to like this record. If it was up to me, I’d give you the records for nothing and you give them to every [reader of your] magazine.” Wish fulfilled!

In the interview, Love asks Dylan if he thought it was “risky” to do an album of Sinatra covers. “Risky? Like walking across a field laced with land mines? Or working in a poison gas factory? There’s nothing risky about making records,” Dylan says. “Comparing me with Frank Sinatra? You must be joking. To be mentioned in the same breath as him must be some sort of high compliment. As far as touching him goes, nobody touches him. Not me or anyone else.”

Dylan also says “Love Sick” from 1997′s Time Out of Mind is the best song he’s ever written about heartbreak.

Shadows in the Night is out February 3 via Columbia for the rest of us. 

Read Invisible Hits: The Tangled Tale of Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks on The Pitch. 

Listen to “Full Moon and Empty Arms” from Shadows in the Night:

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