Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan Vol.23

Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan Vol.23 has been added to the Unofficial page of Dylan Cover Albums.
All tracklists and artwork for Volumes 1 through 23 are now complete.

The collections are available on-line via BitTorrent at dimeadozen.org.

New in the DylanCover.com collection: Merrill

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (3:59)
Merrill
Under the Island Sky
CD: HiYo Music HY-M198; 1998 (US)

Another obscure cover without much information available. All I know about Merrill is that he is a singer-songwriter from Florida. In the liner notes he says he's been playing for 20 years. The only contact info on the 9 year old CD is a web link to the now defunct IUMA. I couldn't find a new site for Merrill or HiYo Music, or any evidence of other recordings. On this collection he sings an acoustic Don't Think Twice, pleasant but standard fare. There are 2 originals plus songs by Kate Wolf, John Stewart, John Prine, Tom Paxton, Merle Travis and others.
Found on eBay for 99¢.

Duke Robillard covers Everything Is Broken

Duke Robillard covers Everything Is Broken on his new double-CD World Full of Blues, to be released in the U.S. June 26 by Stony Plain Records, earlier or already released in some European countries.
Thanks to Jean Fernandez



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New covers: Helen Schneider x2

Helen Schneider covers Born In Time and Just Like A Woman on her new album Like A Woman. The album of covers includes songs by Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Emmylou Harris, Dr. John and others.
Schneider has covered Just Like A Woman before, on her 2001 album A Voice And A Piano.

More info at: helenschneider.com
At present, the CD is only listed at amazon.de

New cover: James Alan Shelton

James Alan Shelton, the lead guitarist for Ralph Stanley’s Clinch Mountain Boys band, uses Walking Down The Line as the title track of his ninth solo album, on Sheltone Records. The album is a collection of folk, bluegrass, and country classics.
Available from jamesalanshelton.com


Thanks to Michael Tearson for the tip

New in the DylanCover.com collection: Troy Shaw

Gotta Serve Somebody (3:18)
Troy Shaw
Meadow Creek Collection II
Cassette: Meadow Music - no #; 1998 (US)

The notes decribe this as "a series of songs that are central to the worship experience at Meadow Creek Foursquare Church" (in Issaquah, Washington.) Gotta Serve Somebody is sung by Troy Shaw with The Troyets, and electric guitar by Rick Azim. The album is no longer listed on the Meadow Creek website. Unknown if it was issued on other formats. Found on eBay for 49¢.

New in the DylanCover.com collection: George Hamilton IV

Forever Young (3:42)
George Hamilton IV
George Hamilton IV
LP: Dot MCA-39033; 1985 (US)

This is the second of three versions of Forever Young that George Hamilton IV, "the Ambassador of Country Music," recorded. More well known is the version that served as the title track for his 1979 album, and was also issued as a single.
This 1985 version is from his self-titled first album for Dot Records, produced by Billy Strange.
More recently, his third version of the song appeared on the 2006 CD Heritage and Legacy: 50th Anniversary, available from amazon.com.

NEW in Instrumentals: Jewels and Binoculars: Ships with Tattooed Sails

Now available from the jazz trio Jewels and Binoculars is their 3rd album, Ships with Tattooed Sails. Guitarist Bill Frisell guests on three tracks.

"Third CD from this collective trio focusing on improvisatory, instrumental interpretations of the bard.
Jewels and Binoculars/Michael Vatcher, Lindsey Horner, Michael Moore play music of Bob Dylan, is a collective trio and always has been since its inception in the year 2000. All three members share equally in the responsibilities and artistic direction of the group."

The CD has been added to the Instrumental pages of Dylan Cover Albums HERE.

Released by Lindsey Horner's Upshot Records of New York City. More info including ordering options at lindseyhorner.com
Available from CD Baby

The tracklist:
If You See Her Say Hello
*Blind Willie McTell
Father Of Night
I Believe In You
Cold Irons Bound
*It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding
Spirit on the Water
Jack-a-Roe (traditional)
*Gates Of Eden
Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)
One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
*with guest guitarist Bill Frisell

Swamp Dylan #2 to be released

Swamp Dylan has announced the upcoming release of Roots, their 2nd collection of Dylan covers. You can hear streaming audio of both albums at the Swamp Dylan website.
The original album now seems to be available on CD, so I will be moving it from the Downloads page and adding it with the new album in the Vocals pages.
The tracklist:
Peggy Day
Man In The Long Black Coat
Things Have Changed
If You Belonged To Me (Traveling Wilburys)
Mississippi
Country Pie
Spirit on the Water
Cold Irons Bound

New cover: Curtis Stigers

Curtis Stigers leads off his new album Real Emotional with a cover of I'll Be Your Baby Tonight.
The CD was released in March in the UK. US & worldwide release scheduled for late summer.
Thanks to Flow'r for the tip
UK CD available from:
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New in the DylanCover.com collection: Penny Lang

One Too Many Mornings (3:56)
Penny Lang
Stone+Sand+Sea+Sky
CD: Borealis BCD176; 2006 (Canada)

Penny Lang, "the first lady of Canadian folk," was playing the Toronto folk clubs when Bob was doing the same in Greenwich Village. This, her latest, is a fine folk album with a very nice rendition of One Too Many Mornings.
This is Penny's 3rd Dylan cover that I know of, following 1992's Walkin' Down The Line and 1999's Love Minus Zero/No Limit.
I have added a Penny Lang page to Collector's Guides.
CD available from:
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New in the DylanCover.com collection: Three Bean Salad

Tangled Up In Blue (5:46)
Three Bean Salad
Shut Up and Eat Your Beans
CD: Blue Indian BIR002; 2001 (US)

Los Angeles punk revival band Three Bean Salad recorded this, their first album, in 2001, 14 years after forming in 1987. Some of the other covers on the album, including Ring Of Fire, Gloria and See That My Grave Is Kept Clean, get typical punkish makeovers, but Tangled Up In Blue is a more "normal" version. The lead vocal is a growl, close to latter-day Bob.
Apparently the CD is out-of-print, and the label website is defunct.
Check availability of used copies at:
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Covers from the vaults

Several new releases with (mostly) unreleased covers from the vaults:

1. The US band Green on Red has a previously unreleased version of Billy on their compilation CD BBC Sessions, recorded 1988-1992.
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2. The new 4 CD-box Live at the BBC by Fairport Convention contains several covers, including previously unreleased versions of Down In the Flood, Open the Door Richard (Homer), Lay Down Your Weary Tune, as well as Percy's Song and Si tu dois partir which were previously released on Heyday.
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3. The new DVD by Santana, Hymns For Peace: Live at Montreux 2004, includes covers of Blowin' In The Wind and Just Like a Woman.
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4. Not recent, but new to me, is the Chicago ska band Deal's Gone Bad cover of Masters Of War on their 2005 retrospective The Longest Happy Hour: 1998-2003.
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Thanks to Dirk Krah (1,2,3) and Michael Tearson (4)

New in the DylanCover.com collection: Bill Moss and The Celestials

You've Got To Serve Somebody (4:48)
Bill Moss and The Celestials
Come On The Lord's Side
MC: Jewel JC-0165; 1980 (US)

Possibly the first cover of one of Dylan's "Gospel" songs by a true Gospel performer, Detroit's Bill Moss and The Celestials.
The 1980 LP (Jewel LPS 0165) is hard to find. The track also appeared on a single, as the B-side to Rise Again (Jewel 270.) The image shown is cropped from my cassette version of the album, found for 99¢. As far as I know the album or track has not been released on CD.

Dylan Title Tracks - 4 additions

Visit Dylan Title Tracks to see 4 new items added today:

• 1965 EP from Spain with the instrumental Mr. Tambourine Man by The Village Stompers. The EP has been added to the The Village Stompers Collector's Guide.

• 1966 Italian picture sleeve with Come una pietra che rotola (Like A Rolling Stone) translation by The Juniors con Gianni Pettenati

• 1986 U.S. sleeve with Quinn The Eskimo on the B-side by New Salem Witch Hunters.
Thanks to Ronald Born for the 3 scans above

• 2006 UK CD Wallflower by Dave Easton

There are now 1,228 sleeves & albums displayed in
Dylan Title Tracks.

New in the DylanCover.com collection: Slim & The Supreme Angels

Blowin' In The Wind (3:22)
Slim & The Supreme Angels
SoulLink Live 3:
Man In The Mirror
CD: Blackberry Records BBD-1641; 2006 (US)

This third in a series of all-star Gospel concerts hosted by The Williams Brothers includes performances of several Gospel-ized pop songs in addition to Blowin' In the Wind and My Sweet Lord by Slim & The Supreme Angels, including You've Got A Friend by The Williams Brothers & Hip Boot Joe and Bridge Over Troubled Water by The Christianaires.

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Riff Party artwork now available

Artwork for the Riff Party downloadable album from ZimmingPoint.com is now
available HERE.
The Dylan Cover Albums Download Albums page has been updated.

New covers from: Oh Susanna, Zita Swoon

• Canadian singer-songwriter Oh Susanna (aka Suzie Ungerleider) covers Billy on her new album Short Stories. Released May 1 in Canada and Europe, US release unknown.
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• Belgian band Zita Swoon covers Series of Dreams on their new album Big City.
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New in the DylanCover.com collection: Julia Samms

Knocking On Heaven's Door (3:37)
Julia Samms
single
45: Brown Sugar (no number); 1990 (Jamaica)

Keeping with the Reggae theme from the previous post, here is an obscure Jamaican 45 by Julia Samms, dated 1990.
The B-side is labeled only "Version," and is just the backing track without vocal. I did not list it as a separate cover since it has no discernable KOHD melody.
This 45 has been added to the Reggae Collector's Guide.

60s Hits Reggae Style

You might skip over this UK Castle Pulse label compilation in a store, assuming the tracks to be by some knock-off studio group, but it is original Jamaican recordings from the Trojan and Creole labels.
Included on Disc 1 of the 2 disc set are 5 Dylan covers, all available on other compilations or artist's CDs, but it's covenient to have them all together.
Hearing the 35 other familiar 60's tunes done Reggae-style is cool too.

Blowin' In The Wind - Earnest Ranglin (instrumental)
It Ain't Me Babe - Bob & Marcia (Bob Andy & Marcia Griffiths duet)
Mr. Tambourine Man - Ken Boothe (original single released as by Keith Hudson)
I Shall Be Released - Inner Circle (although credited to his group here, this is the Jacob Miller solo version from his LP Jacob "Killer" Miller)
Lay Lady Lay - Bob Andy

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First-of-month updates for May 1, 2007

The Dylan Covers DataBase has been updated, adding 351 new covers for a new total of 18,519.
The DataBase now lists over 900 covers of All Along The Watchtower and 800 covers of Blowin' In The Wind. These numbers are deceiving... Blowin' has been covered by many more artists, while the Watchtower count includes many multiple performances by the same artists (e.g., 85 by The Grateful Dead and 66 by Dave Matthews, etc.)
Also 123 new images and many new links were added.
Click here to view New Additions Only

Dylan Covers On-Line added 9 new cover links, for a new total of 792.

Thanks to all who contributed to the DylanCover.com websites during April.

Covers by these artists were added to the DataBase during April 2007:
Acoustic Sound Orchestra, The Alarm, The Alpha Band, Dave Alvin, American Beauty Project, Lisa Asher, Back Forty, Joan Baez (5), The Band (2), David Bazan, Bellport High School Rock-Jazz Ensemble, Jason Bennett, Louis Bertignac, Big Leg Emma, Andrew Bird, Bitols (3), Black Crowes, Mary Black, Blueground Undergrass, Boil, Boo Radley, Randy Boone, The Bottle Rockets, Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, David Bromberg (2), Danny Bryant's RedEyeBand, Roseanne Cash, Albert Castiglia & Graham Wood Drout, Catnip, Champale, Eric Clapton, Dave Cloud with The Gospel of Power, Joe Cocker with Eric Clapton, Judy Collins, David Allen Coe (3), Shawn Colvin, Rita Coolidge with Kris Kristofferson, The Country Gentlemen, The County Line Trio, Crooked Still, Crosby Stills & Nash, Cubensis (6), Dark Hollow (3), David & Jonathan, James Davis, Deadwood Revival, Diesel Dog, John Doe, Jerry Douglas Band, Chris Duarte, David Easton, Tommy Eden & The Gospel Choir, PJ Elliott, Estudio Miami Ritmo, Fairport Convention, Bryan Ferry (19), Travis Fite, Flame, Flex Progression (2), Pat Flynn (2), Marc Ford (2), Rex Fowler, Dorit Gäbler, David Gans, Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders, Jerry Garcia Band (18), Ruth Gerson (2), The Gibson Brothers, Mel Gibson, Thea Gilmore, Gov't Mule (2), Grateful Dead (12), Ground Components, Pat Guadagno (9), Guns N' Roses, Sammy Hagar & The Wabos, Half Pint, George Hamilton IV, Randy Hansen, Roy Harper, Oscar Harris & Twinkle Stars (2), P.J. Harvey (3), The Havinga Band (2), Warren Haynes, Robert Hazard & The Heroes, Michael Hedges, Richard Hell with Robert Quine, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Monika Herzig Acoustic Project, Chris Hillman (2), Robyn Hitchcock (3), Hot Buttered Rum (4), Rick Holmstrom, Robert Howell & The Visitors, Robert Hunter (4), Mari Iijima & Akihiro Hase, Inneke23 & The Lipstick Painters, Pinocchio James, Joker777 (7), Wizz Jones, Kage, Kerry Kearney Band, Larry Keel Experience (5), The King Cotton Rounders (3), Bill Kirchen, Jimmy LaFave, Betsy Legg (2), Phil Lesh & Friends, Gordon Lightfoot, Little Feat, Little Voices, Little Women, The Long Ryders, Lost Angels, Lovemongers, Jerry Lynch, Main Street Saints, Mama Cass with Mary Travers & Joni Mitchell, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (3), The Mark, Max Creek (4), Del McCoury Band, Roger McGuinn (5), Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, The Milestones, Miss Jeanie, Ryan Montbleau, The Mood Cultivation Project, Robin Morris, Bill Morrissey, Keuth Moseley, Mountain (5), Mumbouli (2), Elliott Murphy (4), The Mysteries of Life, New Earth Mud, New Riders of the Purple Sage (4), New World Orchestra, Willie Nile, North Mississippi Allstars, Northwoods Band, Louis Nunley, Old Man River, Ralfi Pagan, The Paperboys, Bill Perry Blues Band, Portastatic, Cheryl Porter (2), Betty Pride, Susheela Raman, Randy & Sue, Raq, Ratdog (5), The Rezidudes, Amy Rigby, Jason Ring, Claudia Russell, Julia Samms, Art Paul Schlosser, Lisbeth Scott, Seeker, Seldom Scene, Ron Sexsmith, Dave Sharp and The Acoustic Terrorists, Haley Sheeler, Claude Sirois, Patti Smith, Angel Snow, Solar Circus, Diana Stabel, Staple Singers, The Strangers (2), String Cheese Incident, Alice Stuart, Studio Group, Supreme Angels, Pat Surface with the Boundary Water Boys, Andrew Swann (2), Dave Swarbrick, Susie Tallman & friends, Jeff Talmadge, Terrapin Flyer, Trampled by Turtles, The Tributes, Tony Truant and The Fleshtones, Jeff Tweedy, Marie Vell, Ed Volker, Bob Walkenhorst (3), The Wayword Sons (3), Alan Weeks and Mike Romeling, Dan Whitaker and The Shinebenders, White Stripes (2), Widespread Panic (3), Ray Wilson (3), Johnny Winter (5), Alexander Wolfrum, Stevie Wonder, Nanette Workman, Yonder Mountain String Band (5), Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Zero