New Morning

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New Morning
Studio album by Bob Dylan
Released	October 21, 1970 (1970-10-21)
Recorded	June–August 1970
Studio	Columbia 52nd Street (New York City)[1][2]
Genre	Country rock[3]
Length	35:21
Label	Columbia
Producer	Bob Johnston
Bob Dylan chronology
Self Portrait (1970) New Morning (1970) Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II (1971)
Singles from New Morning
"If Not for You" / "New Morning" Released: 1971

New Morning is the eleventh studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on October 21, 1970^[2][4][5] by Columbia Records.

Coming only four months after the controversial Self Portrait, the more concise and immediate New Morning received a much warmer reception from fans and critics. Most welcome was the return of Dylan's familiar, nasal singing voice. While he has a slightly nasal tone to his voice on "Alberta #1" from Self Portrait, this was the first full album with his familiar voice since John Wesley Harding in 1967, when he began singing with a country croon. In retrospect, the album has come to be viewed as one of the artist's lesser successes, especially since the release of Blood on the Tracks (1975) which is generally regarded as the fuller return-to-form, but is otherwise still well-received, and is still considered a major improvement over its predecessor.

It reached No. 7 in the US, quickly going gold, and gave Dylan his sixth and last UK number 1 album until Together Through Life in 2009. The album's most successful song from a commercial perspective is "If Not for You", which also was recorded by George Harrison, who played guitar on a version of the song released on 1991's The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3, and was also an international hit for Olivia Newton-John in 1971.