Wednesday, August 08, 2007

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.

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