Fridays Are For Frank: “Full Moon and Empty Arms” (Bob Dylan Cover)
Last night was the third annual Guitar Bar World Record Attempt—and it was awesome.
Bob Dylan played Hoboken in back in 2013, which prompted the Guitar Bar to organize a mass guitar play-along to Dylan’s “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door.”
Obviously moved by the fact that Hoboken united to play Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan returned the favor by recording an album of classic standards made famous by Hoboken’s own Frank Sinatra… at least that’s the theory over here at hMAG.
At any rate, “Shadows in the Night” was released in February, obviously raising a few eyebrows as people wondered about this skinny kid from Minnesota who thought he can cover Frank Sinatra…
We’ll let you be the judge—here’s Bob Dylan singing “Full Moon and Empty Arms”:
And here’s Frank’s version:
Beauty is in the ear of the beholder.