New cover: Hope Waits

The upcoming self-titled debut album by LA-based singer/songwriter Hope Waits includes a cover of Ring Them Bells.
The album, produced by Peter Malick, will be released on 9/18 by RadarProof Records.
Thanks to Michael Tearson


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Dylan Covers Forum: Week 1

It's been a week since I opened The Dylan Covers Forum. So far there isn't much activity, but a few people have registered. One thread has received over 100 views, so there must be some unregistered readers, too.
Please consider joining the Forum if you want to ask a question, or maybe answer one, express an opinion, review an album, start a discussion, post some Dylan cover news, or anything else on your mind.
My hope is for the Forum to become more interactive, with other members starting topics and participating in discussions.
Otherwise, I'll just be talking to myself :)

URL: http://dylancover.freeforums.org
There is a link to The Dylan Covers Forum on the right-sidebar of this page, and also on the DylanCover.com main page.

New: Alan Lorber's Dylan Covers

Iris Music Group has release another mini-album of Dylan covers, this one a compilation of tracks produced by legendary Boss-town Sound producer Alan Lorber, simply titled Dylan Covers. (There is also a Beatles Covers for those interested.)
While they are advertised as "full-length" albums, most of the releases in the series have only a few tracks and clock in at under or barely over 20 minutes (yet are priced at $15.89!) This one has only 7 tracks.
The first track is titled Dylan Epitaph/Dylan Overture by the Alan Lorber Orchestra, I'm guessing an instrumental medley? Lorber also covers Lay Lady Lay, the only other new-to-me track.
The remainder are 1966-70 covers One Too Many Mornings by Erik, I Shall Be Released by Kyle Garrahan and It Takes A Lot To Laugh by Phluph, with the exception of 2004's All Along The Watchtower by the Michael Packer Blues Band.
The "album" has been added to Dylan Cover Albums HERE.
The album is available from the Iris Music Group Store.

Apparently this series is now available on physical discs, I don't know if they're CDs or CD-Rs, so I have moved last year's Alan Lorber Orchestra release from the Downloads page to the Instrumental pages HERE.
This release is available from the Iris Music Group Store, and also from various download vendors such as eMusic.
The just released Dylan Covers will likely be available from download sites also.

New cover: Hank Shizzoe

Swiss band Hank Shizzoe & The Directors cover Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread on their upcoming album Headlines.
To be released September 14.
Thanks to dirk Krah for the tip
Pre-order from: amazon.de

Mitch Ryder Guide updated

The Mitch Ryder at Rockpalast DVD has been added to the Mitch Ryder Collector's Guide. The compilation DVD includes a 1979 performance of Wicked Messenger, and From a Buick 6 and Subterranean Homesick Blues, both from a 2004 appearance on the German television program.
Thanks to Dirk Krah for the tip
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New in the DylanCover.com collection: Glen Garrison

I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (2:12)
Glen Garrison
single b/w You Know I Love You
45: Imperial 66300; 1968 (US)

This country version of I'll Be Your Baby Tonight by Arkansas-born Glen Garrison did not appear on If I Lived Here: The Country Soul of Glen Garrison, his only Imperial LP, also from 1968.

NEW: DylanCover.com Forum

I have added a Forum page to DylanCover.com.
If you want to ask a question, or maybe answer one, express an opinion, review an album, start a discussion, post some Dylan cover news, or anything else on your mind, visit the DylanCover.com Forum. A quick registration is required.
Judging by past attempts to make the site more interactive, I doubt the Forum will be very active, but time will tell. After the decline and recent apparent demise of the DylanPool forum, and the general disinterest in Dylan covers at other Dylan related newsgroups or forums I have read, maybe there is a place for it.
I'll drop in a few times daily to see if there is any activity. As of this post, I'm the only member :(

URL: http://dylancover.freeforums.org
There is a link to the Forum on the right-sidebar of this page, and also on the DylanCover.com main page.

Various Various updates

Two updates on the Various Artists pages of Dylan Cover Albums:

• Added a scan and info of the cassette release of The Songs of Bob Dylan on the Start label. Unlike the abridged single CD version, the double MC has all 32 tracks from the double LP.

• Added info of the Canadian issue of Listen To Bob Dylan - a Tribute, with the same catalog number as the US release but adding EMI logos on the discs & back. I did not add another scan since the reddish color is the same as the Australian version, although the artwork crop may be slightly different.
Thanks to Ronald Born for both of these.

New in the DylanCover.com collection: ClearWater Ensemble

Blowin' In The Wind (3:23)
ClearWater Ensemble
Baby Boomer Hits
- New Age Style
CD: Sterling 33752; 2004 (US)

You can call it New Age, easy listening, contemporary instrumental, or elevator music... by any label, it's just another bland instrumental version of Blowin' In The Wind. There are no further credits on this CD, other than an advertisement for a Christmas CD by the same group.
Available from: amazon.com

Dylan Title Tracks: 2 additions

Visit Dylan Title Tracks to see 2 new items added today:

• Mexican EP No Soy Yo Nena (It Ain't Me Babe)
by Las Tortugas (The Turtles). Unusual to see the band name translated.
Thanks to Ronald Born.

• 1986 Spanish 12" maxi-single of She Belongs To Me by Los Nativos, with different artwork than the 7" sleeve previously listed
Thanks to Manuel Garcia Jara.

There are now 1,248 sleeves & albums displayed in
Dylan Title Tracks.

Condolences...

It's with sadness I report the passing of Kevin Kent of South Africa. Kevin was a long-time contributor to DylanCover.com and an avid trader of Beatles & other artists as well as Dylan & Dylan covers. He was my sole contact in that part of the world, keeping me informed of South African Dylan covers both new & old.
My condolences to his wife & family.

I received this rare cover from him in our last trade. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall is from the rare self-titled LP by South African folksinger Rod Bolin, recorded live at the University of Cape Town, in March & May of 1966. (Folk Records LP663)

DylanCover.com is now a CD Baby affiliate

DylanCover.com is now a member of the CD Baby Partner program. Using the CD Baby link in the right sidebar, or other CD Baby links in Blog posts or anywhere throughout the websites will help support DylanCover.com (at no cost to you.)
Any orders placed at CD Baby when entered through these links qualify, not just the specific CDs linked from here. I have tried to update all existing links (they should end with "/dylancover".)
Beginning next month, after the September 1 update, CD Baby links (and also some amazon.com links) will be available on the DataBase's detail views (click the artist name on any item in the DataBase list to see the detail view for that item.)
Thanks to all who have supported DylanCover.com by using my Amazon or GEMM links, and/or made donations via PayPal using the "Make a Donation" buttons.

An evening of Dylan music at Tauranga Arts Festival, NZ

An evening of Bob Dylan music featuring some of New Zealand's finest musicians is scheduled as part of the Tauranga Arts Festival on October 27, 2007.

Featured artists include Kokomo, Barry Saunders, Shona Laing and Nigel Gavin, & the John Michaelz Gospel Trio.
More information at the Tauranga Festival website.

Thanks to Bill Hester.

New in the DylanCover.com collection: Marie Vell

Die antwort weiß ganz allein der wind
(Blowin' In The Wind) (3:13)
Marie Vell
Frei zu sein
CD-single:
Songhouse; 2006 (Germany)

I haven't been able to find any biographical info about Marie Vell. This single is the only release by her I found on-line. Her rather ordinary version of the oft-used Hans Bradtke translation of Blowin' In The Wind is listed as a bonus track on the 3-track CD. The title track and the 2nd track, Ich weiß was ich will, are originals with her lyrics and music by Hinrich Vogt.
Available from: amazon.de

2006 Hollies Sing Dylan

EMI 7243-5-28246-2-5
Released 12/06.
Artwork of original UK LP.
Thanks to Jack

New in the DylanCover.com collection: The Strangers

Knockin' On Heaven's Door (5:07)
All Along The Watchtower (4:19)
The Strangers
Rock Classics:
Rockin' All Night Long
CD: Akasa CD142.386;
2007 reissue (Germany)

This 2007 CD is a re-titled reissue of The Strangers' 2004 CD Strangers Available (Akasa CD 170.208, see cover). The German-based multi-national band's first album was recorded live at the Dr. Jazz club in Düsseldorf on December 5, 2003. Knockin' features Joplin-esque vocals by Eyreen Sue.
the-strangers.com
"Rock Classics" available from: amazon.de

E-mail changes

Due to a recent surge in spam, I have changed the Blog's e-mail and the DylanCover.com contact addresses. blog06@... and mail07@... are no longer valid. The Blog's E-mail link to the right and the mail link on the site's contact page have been updated.
If you have saved either of the above addresses, both at dylancoveralbums.com, please delete them. --DP

New in the DylanCover.com collection: Peter Saltzman

Blowin' In The Wind (4:47)
Peter Saltzman
Things Better Left Said
CD: Peter Saltzman Music PSM-09034; 2003 (US)

Chicago-based Peter Saltzman's collection of originals and standards includes a slow jazz vocal take on
Blowin' In The Wind.
Available from: CD Baby

New in the DylanCover.com collection: Old Man River

I Threw It All Away (2:44)
Old Man River
Trousers
CD-EP: Wu Wei OMR9191; 2006 (Australia)

Old Man River (Australian singer-songwriter Ohad Rein) doesn't stray far from the Dylan original with his solo acoustic version of
I Threw It All Away on this 5-track EP.
Available from: amazon.com / amazon.de

New in the DylanCover.com collection: Sherwin Linton & Cleo Bee

Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather (2:25)
Sherwin Linton and Cleo Bee
with The Cotton Kings
single b/w You'll Be Kissin' Me
45: Black Gold BG 45 7115;
rec. 1968 - rel.1971 (US)

Sherwin Linton is a still active rockabilly & country singer from Bob's home state of Minnesota. His music career dates back to 1956, and he was among the first Midwest artists to cover Dylan, with mid-60s recordings of Girl From The North Country (release info unknown.) This 1968 duet of Boots with Cleo Bee and Sherwin's band The Cotton Kings was recorded in Chicago.
For more Linton-Dylan connections, read the March 2004 entry on his website's "Current News" page.

New in Near-Misses: Saturday Nite Fish Fry

It's been a long time since I've added any albums to the Near-Misses pages of Dylan Cover Albums. The Near-Misses pages are for albums that don't qualify for inclusion on the main pages, but have enough Dylan content to deserve a mention.
This new album by the Canadian group Saturday Nite Fish Fry has 6 Dylan covers among it's 13 tracks, including the title track (the CD has also been added to Title Tracks, see previous post below.)
In addition to Dirt Road Blues, the blues and soul ensemble do the rarely covered 10,000 Men, 2X2, and Lonesome Day Blues, as well as the not-quite-so-rare Blowin' In The Wind :).
Vocals are by album producer & keyboardist Bill King, except 2X2 is sung by Shakura S'Aida, and the 2 singers alternate verses on Lonesome Day Blues.
As a bonus track, It Ain't Me Babe is performed by The Roomies and the Rockit 88 Band (the female background singers on the CD and the rhythm section of Saturday Nite Fish Fry.)
If you like horn-fueled blues and soul, this CD is for you.
Listed at Dylan Cover Albums HERE.

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Dylan Title Tracks: 4 additions

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

• 1966 Australian EP with Like A Rolling Stone by The Young Rascals.

• 1971 Japanese sleeve with Wanted Man by Johnny Cash.
Thanks to Anita Illing for above 2.

• 1970 French sleeve of Love Minus Zero/No Limit by Turley Richards.

• 2007 CD Dirt Road Blues by Saturday Nite Fish Fry (see next post above.)
Thanks to Michael Tearson for the tip.

There are now 1,246 sleeves & albums displayed in
Dylan Title Tracks.

New cover: Bachman Cummings

The Canadian classic-rock legends duo Bachman Cummings (Randy Bachman & Burton Cummings) cover Like A Rolling Stone on their new album Jukebox. The Canadian release is available worldwide, unfortunately at high import prices. I'm hoping for a US release.
Thanks to Mike King for the tip

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I'm Not There soundtrack

Circulating reports of the I'm Not There biopic soundtrack describe it as a double-CD with over 30 covers, and Dylan's own rare recording of the title-track. Looks very interesting.
Scheduled for release 10/30. More details to follow when available.

The unconfirmed tracklist:
All Along The Watchtower - Eddie Vedder & The Million Dollar Bashers
As I Went Out One Morning - Mira Billotte
Ballad Of A Thin Man - Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers
Billy - Los Lobos
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window - The Hold Steady
Can't Leave Her Behind - Stephen Malkmus & Lee Ranaldo
Cold Irons Bound - Tom Verlaine & The Million Dollar Bashers
Dark Eyes - Iron & Wine & Calexico
Fourth Time Around - Yo La Tengo
Goin' To Acapulco - Jim James & Calexico
Highway 61 Revisited - Karen O & The Million Dollar Bashers
I Wanna Be Your Lover - Yo La Tengo
I'm Not There - Bob Dylan
I'm Not There - Sonic Youth
Just Like A Woman - Charlotte Gainsbourg & Calexico
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliot
Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Antony & The Johnsons
The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll - Mason Jennings
Maggie's Farm - Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers
Mama You've Been On My Mind - Jack Johnson
The Man In The Long Black Coat - Mark Lanegan
Moonshiner - Bob Forrest
One More Cup Of Coffee - Roger McGuinn & Calexico
Pressing On - John Doe
Ring Them Bells - Sufjan Stevens
Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power) - Willie Nelson & Calexico
Simple Twist Of Fate - Jeff Tweedy
Stuck Inside Of Mobile With Memphis Blues Again - Cat Power
The Times They Are A Changin' - Mason Jennings
Tombstone Blues - Richie Havens
When The Ship Comes In - Marcus Carl Franklin
Wicked Messenger - The Black Keys
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová

New in the DylanCover.com collection: Robin Dale Ford

You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (2:43)
Seven Curses (3:47)
Robin Dale Ford
Down In My Heart
CD: 10th Planet Records 10-001; 1995 (US)

Down In The Heart melds traditional banjo styles to modern material, except for 2 traditional tunes. Besides the 2 Dylan covers there are 2 originals by Robin and songs by Gene Clark, Jesse Winchester and Bruce Springsteen. The entire album is Robin's solo banjo and clear voice, recorded at her own independent label 10th Planet Records in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Downloads & streams

• A cover of You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go by Italian duo Bruno & Mario is available HERE. The 1985 home recording by Bruno Cattivelli & Mario Di Giammarco had previously been available on the now defunct They All Play On Penny Whistles fan covers website. This new posting is a higher quality mp3.

• A cover of Masters Of War by the Victoria BC, Canada crust punk metal band Iskra is available on their website. The track from their 2003(?) self-titled album is unrecognizable, but the album notes credit Dylan and discuss the song. Not for the faint-of-heart!

• Whole Wheat Radio (WWR) is an Alaska-based, listener-programmed webcast that includes many Dylan covers in its playlist, including the complete Dylan cover albums from Big Brass Bed (listed under Rod MacDonald,) Dennis Heller, Pat Nevins, and Bob Dylan Uncovered (these links to the album details at Dylan Cover Albums.) Several covers available were new to me, including an exclusive WWR house concert performance of The Times They Are A-Changin' by folksinger Johnsmith, and several by Alaskan s/s Larry Zarella. Some other new artists and/or new covers I discovered are from The Co-Dependents, Ray Weaver, Steve Norris, John Vandiver, Garrett & Westcott, Organ Failure and Roger “Hurricane” Wilson.
Free registration is required to request songs. Once registered use the "Make requests" search to search for "Dylan" in the "tags" field. It's a Wiki based system, so the search isn't perfect due to overuse of the Dylan tag for similar sounding artists, but searching for the Dylan tag lists many (though likely not all) of the Dylan covers available.
Once requested, songs are placed in a queue. There is a limit to requests allowed per day per listener, and songs are blocked for a couple days after being requested to avoid overplaying. Low-speed and hi-speed versions of the webcast are available.

New in the DylanCover.com collection: Half Pint

Wanted Man (3:13)
Half Pint
Closer To You
CD: Half Pint Music HP680753; 1999 (Jamaica)

Half Pint's reggae version of Wanted Man is not credited to Bob Dylan, it's labeled only as "adapted," but despite some globalized and reggae-fied lyrics it's obviously a cover of Dylan's song.
"Wanted man in New York City, wanted man in Tokyo, wanted man down in Jamaica, wanted man in Mexico..."
and
"Wherever you may jam tonight you'll find me jammin' too."
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New cover: Ann Wilson

Hope and Glory, the debut solo album by Heart’s Ann Wilson, includes A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall, with Rufus Wainwright and Shawn Colvin. To be released on September 11 by Zoe/Rounder Records.




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New cover: Seldom Scene

SCENEchronized, a new album by Seldom Scene to be released August 14th by Sugar Hill records, includes a cover of Tomorrow Is A Long Time.
The new album has been added to the Seldom Scene Collector's page.



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New in the DylanCover.com collection: Stuffy Shmitt

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (4:41)
Stuffy Shmitt
Other People's Stuff
CD: Realistic 6 60662 49202 7; 2003 (US)

As the title suggests, Other People's Stuff is a collection of covers by New York based singer-songwriter Stuffy Shmitt. Several guests appear on the album, including Levon Helm, but this vocal with acoustic guitar version of Don't Think Twice is performed solo by Shmitt.
Available from: CD Baby

Playin' Dead

Boston Grateful Dead tribute band Playin' Dead offers a 2006 live mp3 of Desolation Row on their website playingdead.net (click: Music).

The band has several shows listed at the Live Music Archive, including a recent performance of Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again from their 7/26/07 show (Now available in all formats.)
There are no other Dylan covers in any of their currently listed shows.

New covers at LMA Blog discontinued

Going, Going, Gone...
The New covers at LMA (Live Music Archive) Blog has been discontinued due to lack of readership.
If you're one of the very few who utilized the service, most of the same information can now be found HERE. This new list is derived from the DataBase's Next Update Preview. The list will not be updated daily as the Blog was, but at minimum once per week on Monday mornings, usually several times per week.
Note that recent and future LMA links in the DataBase are now direct to the shows listed. Previously, links were only to the LMA main page. Old links will not be changed.

First-of-month updates for August 1, 2007

The Dylan Covers DataBase has been updated, adding 233 new covers for a new total of 19,479. Click here to view New Additions Only
Also 84 new images were added.

Dylan Covers On-Line added 17 new cover links, for a new total of 781.

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

Covers by these artists were added to the DataBase
during July 2007:
8-Track, Aby The Baby, Back Forty, Erik Balkey (2), Nicholas Barron, Javier Bátiz, Robert Berger (5), Bergfolk, Big Leg Emma, Black Crowes, Blackbirdz, Lee Blake Band, Bloodkin, Blue Lightning, Blueground Undergrass, Bm Impov, BoomBox, Born 53 (2), Breaking and Entering, Brother Dave, Chrome Frequency, Jim Cleveland and Mark Austin, The Co-Dependents, The Code Blue Band, Tom Constanten, Crooked Still (2), Cubensis (5), Daphne Blue, Dark Star Orchestra (3), Dead Weight, Deadwood Revival, Caroline Doctorow, Domino Theory, Die DoubleDylans (10), Dream Syndicate (3), Eclipse, Utah Feltner, Paul Felton (2), The First Days, Donavon Frankenreiter, Jerry Garcia Band (4), Garrett & Westcott, Ghosts of Electricity (4), Goofy Foot (2), Gov't Mule (3), Grateful Dead (5), David Gray, Erik Grip, Theo Hakola, The Homel-Alaniz Band, Hot Buttered Rum (2), Roger Hubbard, Robert Hunter (2), Intelligence, JGB, Johnsmith, Ted Johnson and Brett Dennen, Joker777, Mark Jungers and The Whistling Mules, The Katzenjammers (3), Phil Keaggy & Friends (2), The Kentucky Boys, Dave LaBoone (2), Local 28, Lionel Lodge and Rens Newland, Emily Loizeau, Chet Lott, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds (2), Max Creek, Del McCoury Band, Ronnie McCoury, George McCrae, Kevin McDermott, Pete McDonald (5), Harrison McInnes, Michelle, The Mighty Maytones, Mister, Moose Crossing, Moossa (2), Steve Morgan and the L.A. Boys, Mr. Blotto, Tony Natale with John Mizarolli, New Riders of the Purple Sage (4), Steve Norris, North Mississippi Allstars, Old Crow Medicine Show (2), Organ Failure, The Other Ones, The Outlaws, The Radiators (6), Ratdog (30), Jeff Ray, Refugee, Terry Reid, Chris & Rich Robinson, Rod Ruby, Alex Scorier, Melvin Seals & JGB (2), Justin Shively, The Sinners, Sistah Nedra & The JuJu Band, The Small Stars (4), Doug Spartz (2), Splintered Sunlight (3), Steve & Hage, Los Sugars, Shan Tahir, Peter Thompson, Peter Tork and Shoe Suede Blues, The Twilight Orchestra, Ubiquitone, John Vandiver, Sylvie Vartan, Bob Walkenhorst (4), Wax Fang, Ray Weaver (2), Jim Weider Band (2), Westburyian Driftwood, Jan White, Widespread Panic (3), Cassandra Wilson, Roger ''Hurricane'' Wilson, Steve Wynn, Seth Yacovone Band, Neil Young and Nicolette Larson, Larry Zarella (3), Zero