Timothée Chalamet Dips Into the Bob Dylan Catalog on ‘SNL’

The Bob Dylan tune selections Timothée Chalamet picked for his “Saturday Evening Dwell” musical look had been… nicely, fully unknown to many of the viewing viewers. The actor’s dip into extra obscure selections delighted many Dylanologists who tuned in, at the same time as his picks defied expectations that he would recreate songs he carried out as Dylan in “A Full Unknown,” which turned out to be the furthest factor from his thoughts.

In his opening monolog as host, Chalamet signaled that viewers wouldn’t get precisely what they is likely to be anticipating throughout his musical section. “You won’t know the Bob Dylan songs I’m performing, however they’re my private favorites,” he instructed the viewers. “I’m so grateful ‘Saturday Evening Dwell’ remains to be doing bizarre stuff like this 50 years in. They’re both very nice for letting me do that or extremely imply and that is all a giant prank.”

It was rapidly obvious that Chalamet meant to carry out in his personal voice — and have some irreverent enjoyable with it — when he launched into two songs again to again for his first musical spot within the present, sporting sun shades and a winter coat with a hood over his head.

For that first look, Chalamet sang a fast, enjoyable and daring medley of “Outlaw Blues” and “Three Angels,” two numbers which can be well-known to critical Dylan followers however have by no means appeared on any greatest-hits album. “Outlaw Blues” does not less than date again to the interval depicted within the film, having appeared on the 1965 “Bringing It Again Residence” album. The second selection, “Three Angels,” could be for inclusion if James Mangold ever makes a sequel — it’s from 1970’s “New Morning” album, when Dylan was settling right into a mellower mode after the explosive mid-’60s interval depicted within the film.

Chalamet took a extra reverent method when he got here again later within the present to sing a 3rd Dylan choice, however he was nonetheless sticking with the catalog — the very deep catalog, on this case. He picked an acoustic guitar to sing “Tomorrow Is a Lengthy Time,” a tune that Dylan first sang stay and demo-ed within the early ’60s however didn’t launch until a long time later. The tune first formally appeared in 2010 on the album “The Bootleg Collection Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos 1962-64.”

Furthermore, in an unannounced camero, Chalamet was joined by the well-known singer-songwriter James Blake for the all-around shocking look, additional delighting eager-eyed music followers.

Chalamet was clearly having time as he usurped expectations with the efficiency, the primary look specifically feeling like an opportunity to chop free and have fun the Oscar nomination he picked up for greatest actor this week, one in all eight nominations the movie garnered.

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