It’s an event worth noting. Rolling Stone magazine takes Dylan at face value. He’s not playing games, lying, shape-shifting, or merely donning another mask. David Fricke got one of the “first listens” to Christmas In The Heart and reports thusly:

Sincerity — that’s Bob Dylan’s present to you on his first-ever Christmas album. Based on a preview of six tracks from Christmas in the Heart — a set of traditional hymns and popular holiday songs to be released October 13th — held at the Sony Music offices this week, Dylan truly means it when he gets to the famous closing line of “The Christmas Song,” co-written by singer Mel Tormé and first cut in 1946 by Nat King Cole: “Although it’s been said many times many ways, Merry Christmas to you.”

Wow.

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Addendum: Fricke also confirms that the album is self-produced, i.e. by “Jack Frost”. (I admit I had begun to wonder if maybe Bob had succeeded in dragging the ninety-eight year-old Mitch Miller into the studio.)

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