New Morning

New Morning
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 21, 1970 (1970-10-21)
RecordedJune–August 1970
StudioColumbia 52nd Street (New York City)
Genre
Length35:21
LabelColumbia
ProducerBob Johnston
Bob Dylan chronology
Self Portrait
(1970)
New Morning
(1970)
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II
(1971)
Singles from New Morning
  1. "If Not for You"
    Released: 1971

New Morning is the eleventh studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on October 21, 1970 by Columbia Records.

Coming only four months after the controversial Self Portrait, the more concise 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.

New Morning reached No. 7 in the United States, quickly going gold, and gave Dylan his sixth and last UK number 1 album until Together Through Life in 2009. The album's most commercially successful song is "If Not for You", which was also 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.