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Dave Stewart on His Dylan Covers Album, ‘Jam Sessions’ With Bob in the ’80s & What He Thinks of ‘A Complete Unknown’

Dave Stewart talks 'Dave Does Dylan' covers album, "jam sessions" with Bob and what he thinks about 'A Complete Unknown.'

“I had no idea when I started doing this that the ( A Complete Unknown) movie was coming out and the whole outburst of stuff about Timothée Chalamet and about (Bob) Dylan,” Stewart tells Billboard via Zoom from his studio in Nashville. Dylan voiced his support of the project in a statement announcing the album: “Captain Dave is a dreamer and a fearless innovator, a visionary of high order, very delicately tractable on the surface but beneath that, he’s a slamming, thumping, battering ram, very mystical but rational and sensitive when it comes to the hot irons of art forms. Salvation of sorts came from a package sent by a cousin who’d moved to Memphis; it included pairs of Levi corduroy jeans and a couple of blues albums that Stewart, laid up and “bored out of my mind,” began to play incessantly — followed by Dylan.

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