Tombstone Blues, slowed to a spectral recitation, sounds like it was written the same day as Murder Most Foul, but a day that’s hard to place in either 2020 or 1965. Hackett’s right leg had to be amputated after Eddie Nace, the Bon Bon Club operator, pushed her down the staircase. A soundtrack album, Shadow Kingdom, was released on June 2, 2023, [8] and the full-length film was released four days later as a rental and digital download. Bauer also claimed that the album "stands as a good retort for all the naysayers who have argued, seemingly from day one, that Dylan can't sing.

The album's setlist includes 13 original songs handpicked by Dylan plus the closing instrumental, "Sierra's Theme. sarà anche solo un colonna sonora, ma tutte le volte in cui si può sentire qualcosa dal nostro capitan America(e se vi chiedete il perché io affibbi un tale titolo a Dylan, beh, fatevene una ragione Capitan America è definito la leggenda vivente e ditemi voi se c'è qualcuno che ha avuto una vita più leggendaria di lui.Dylan has long treated his songs as standards, so compositionally robust as to be infinitely malleable, but the gravitas here is striking; as if the removal of the beats has removed the song from linear time. Sodomsky also discussed director Alma Har'el's "knack for visualizing the haunted barroom production that Dylan has favored on his modern studio albums: As he sings in dusky rooms filled with cigarette smoke and lamplight, mannequins and Western characters, the whole thing takes on a surreal, ghostlike quality". The performance of " Forever Young" from Har'el's film was released as a standalone video on June 2, 2023.

Sung in an acoustic sertting, with a 'one-take' feel, they are, as you'd expect, noticably different from the originals.Shadow Kingdom presents Dylan performing revelatory 21st century versions of songs from his storied back catalog – including fan favorites like “Forever Young” and “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” and deep catalog gems like “Queen Jane Approximately” and “Wicked Messenger. This means that the sound is close to Tex-Mex with its use of acoustic guitars and an accordion to add colour it is a very gentle sound and Dylan's voice is relaxing presence.

Shadow Kingdom the album, then, turns out to be an extremely useful addition to the Dylan catalogue, and very much of a piece with his current manoeuvres. Shadow Kingdom presents Dylan performing revelatory 21st century versions of songs from his storied back catalog – including fan favorites like "Forever Young" and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," and deep catalog gems like "Queen Jane Approximately" and "The Wicked Messenger. The film features Dylan and a group of masked musicians performing 13 songs from the first half of Dylan's career in an intimate club-like setting. Drawn from a 2021 live stream with Dylan revisiting his past through the prism of his current sound.Shadow Kingdom consists of new recordings of 13 songs from the first half of Dylan's career plus a new instrumental song titled "Sierra's Theme".