Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
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"Beyond Here Lies Nothin" is the opening track of Bob Dylan
's 2009 studio album, Together Through Life
. The title is a quote from the Ancient Roman poet Ovid
. The track was available as a free download on Dylan's official website from March 30 to March 31, 2009, and a photo montage set to the song premiered on Amazon on April 21.
Like much of Dylan's more recent work, the song was produced by himself using the pseudonym, Jack Frost
.
This song was used on the trailer for the second season of HBO's True Blood
and was also featured in the final episode of the second season of the program. That episode was titled Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
. Blue-Tongue Films created a music video for the song directed by Nash Edgerton
and featuring Joel Stoffer
& Amanda Aardsma
in an extreme marital spat.
The song was nominated at the 52nd Grammy Awards
for Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo
.
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
's 2009 studio album, Together Through Life
Together Through Life
Together Through Life is the 33rd studio album by Bob Dylan, released on April 28, 2009, on Columbia Records. The album debuted at number one in several countries, including the U.S. and the UK...
. The title is a quote from the Ancient Roman poet Ovid
Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria...
. The track was available as a free download on Dylan's official website from March 30 to March 31, 2009, and a photo montage set to the song premiered on Amazon on April 21.
Like much of Dylan's more recent work, the song was produced by himself using the pseudonym, Jack Frost
Jack Frost
Jack Frost is a sprite-like character with roots in Viking lore. There, he is known as Jokul Frosti . In Britain and United States, Jack is a variant of Old Man Winter and is held responsible for frosty weather, for nipping the nose and toes in such weather, coloring the foliage in autumn, and...
.
This song was used on the trailer for the second season of HBO's True Blood
True Blood
True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in the state of Louisiana...
and was also featured in the final episode of the second season of the program. That episode was titled Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
Beyond Here Lies Nothin' (True Blood)
"Beyond Here Lies Nothin" is the 12th and final episode of the second season of True Blood and the show's 24th overall. The episode, which was written by Alexander Woo and directed by Michael Cuesta, originally aired in the United States on HBO on September 13, 2009...
. Blue-Tongue Films created a music video for the song directed by Nash Edgerton
Nash Edgerton
Nash Edgerton is an Australian film director and stuntman.-Life and career:Edgerton was born in Blacktown, New South Wales and is the brother of actor Joel Edgerton....
and featuring Joel Stoffer
Joel Stoffer
Joel Stoffer is an American actor credited with performing in a variety of television series and film such as Charmed, The Shield, Judging Amy, Blind Justice, Species III, Cold Case, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation...
& Amanda Aardsma
Amanda Aardsma
Amanda Aardsma is an American actress and former beauty pageant contestant who has competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant.Aardsma won the Miss Colorado Teen USA title, and competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant the following year...
in an extreme marital spat.
The song was nominated at the 52nd Grammy Awards
52nd Grammy Awards
The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards took place on January 31, 2010, at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Neil Young was honored as the 2010 MusiCares Person of the Year on January 29, two days prior to the Grammy telecast. Only ten of the 109 awards were received during the broadcast...
for Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo
Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo
The Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for works containing quality vocal performances in the rock music genre...
.