On-Line Covers

• A nice cover of On A Night Like This by King Ring Razz and Spaz with Friends, from the promo-only CD Madhouse Studios Presents is available on The Band website. Vocal by Kim Barsky. [mp3 download]
• A 2007 live cover of Summer Days by The Groove, the NC band led by Rich Lerner, is available at freethemusic.net (mid-page.) [mp3 download]
• The German I'm Not There covers contest is being monitored in The Dylan Covers Forum (registration not required to read the forum.) 21 entries have been listed so far, a mix of download & listen-only tracks.

New album but old tracks

Discovered on several digital music services (iTunes, Rhapsody) is this 10-track Dylan tribute Bob Dylan: It Ain't Him Babe. The artist credit is Tribute Stars, released by Charly Records on July 7, 2006. To my knowledge this album is only available as a digital download.
A listen to the samples reveal these are the same recordings as the 2002 Klone Records CD The Bob Dylan Song Book (also available at iTunes.)
This release has been added to Dylan Cover Albums as a separate item, cross-referenced to the original CD version.
The tracklist:

The Times They Are A Changin' / All Along The Watchtower / Blowin' In The Wind / Like A Rolling Stone / I Shall Be Released / Lay Lady Lay / Mr. Tambourine Man / Just Like A Woman / It Ain't Me Babe / Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Miscellaneous updates...

• The Kingston Trio Collector's Guide has been updated with a scan of their final Decca 45 Babe, You've Been On My Mind, and the additon of The Stewart Years boxset with it's previously unreleased recording of She Belongs To Me.

• Two new items have been added to the Dylan Covers on Non-Dylan Tributes page:
The Johnny Cash & June Carter Tribute Show by Roland Riedberger & Barbara Clifford with It Ain't Me, Babe
The Country Gentlemen Tribute by Bill Yates & Friends with Walkin' Down The Line.
Items #87 & 88.

From the DylanCover.com collection:Kunio Ohta Quintet

My Back Pages (16:08)
Kunio Ohta Quintet
featuring Masamiki Takano
My Back Pages
LP: Three Blind Mice TBM-3002;
1976 (Japan)

This 1976 jazz instrumental of My Back Pages owes a lot (as most subsequent versions do) to Keith Jarrett's 1968 recording. I am not aware of any CD release of this album or track.

German "I'm Not There" contest - a list

I've posted a list of entries in the German covers contest at the Dylan Covers Forum (registration not required to read the forum.)
I'll make updates every few days.

Downloads & streams

• Licencja Na Zabijanie (License To Kill) is now available for download on Sylwek Szweda's list of Polish translations

• Markus Rill of Germany offers an acoustic demo of Not Dark Yet on his wesite markusrill.net [> Sounds]

• The Gospel Chapel Band has added two more listen-only tracks to their MySpace page: Man Of Peace and Pressing On.

German I'm Not There covers contest

There is now a German version of the I'm Not There covers contest, accepting both audio (mp3) and video entries. See the German I'm Not There MySpace page for details. Entries are to be posted in the "Comments" section, and will be accessable from there. Closing date is March 22.
Most of the entries are linked to the performer's MySpace pages, rather than a separate contest list, so the entries will be added to the DataBase as separate MySpace items.

New from The Beards:Dylan and The Band Tribute

Added to the SHARED Page of Dylan Cover Albums is the new live album by The Beards of Italy, Dylan and The Band Tribute. The albums 7 live cuts were recorded during the band's 2006 tour in the USA, at The Pour House in Raleigh, North Carolina on November 31, 2006. Two bonus studio tracks were recorded in May of '06.
More info, audio samples & ordering the digital album available at
The Beard's website.

The tracklist:
Up On Cripple Creek / Open The Door Homer / Million Dollar Bash / Cocaine Blues [Johnny Cash] / King Harvest / Ballad Of A Thin Man / Highway 61 Revisited /
Bonus studio tracks: Million Dollar Bash / This Wheel’s On Fire

Miscellaneous updates...

• The Phantom Engineers (Ireland) have added rough mixes of Hurricane and Tangled Up In Blue to their MySpace page.
• Kokomo (New Zealand) now predict a March release for their Dylan tribute In The Well.
• Collector's Guides for Rick Nelson and BAP have been updated.
• The Dylan Covers at CD Baby list has been updated.
Even if you're not looking to buy, CD Baby's listings offer info and links for the artists and CDs, album reviews, most tracks have 2-minute samples, and many offer links to download services such as iTunes, TradeBit & others. (But buying CDs does help support DylanCover.com!)

New Dylan Cover Album from Australia

Releasing today in Australia is The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan by The Gospel Chapel Band of Victoria. Few details are available at the moment, I have contacted the band and hope to have more details to report here soon.
Meanwhile, you can visit their MySpace page to read about the band and listen several tracks from the CD.

Update: see 3/10 post

From the DylanCover.com collection: Dick Staber

The Ballad of Hollis Brown (3:42)
Dick Staber
Of Graves and Epitaphs
LP: Reba 5056; 1979 (US)

A good song for the mid-winter doldrums.
Obscure Pennsylvania bluegrass LP by Dick Staber.

New in the DylanCover.com collection: King Country

If Not For You (2:56)
King Country
Five Star Dive Bar
CD: Sun Country Records 1514-2; 2003 (US)

If you like your Country covers with that old style twang, here's one for you. Frank Sullivan is front-man of the Nashville-based King Country, this is their first and so far only album. They are described as "the new sound of traditional country." ...More info at kingcountry.com
Available from amazon.com

New boxsets with covers

The upcoming Bear Family boxset For You: The Decca Years 1963-1969 by Rick Nelson includes a previously unreleased performance of Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You, from the same show that yielded the In Concert: The Troubador 1969 album. The high-priced boxset also contains the other Nelson covers from that album, and his earlier Decca singles and album track covers. TBR 2/19/08
Available from: amazon.com | amazon.co.uk | amazon.de

Reaching Back: The Life and Music of Steve Tilston, a 2007 retrospective of the British singer's career, includes a cover of A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall. Recording details for the track would be appreciated if anyone can oblige.
Available from: amazon.com | amazon.co.uk | amazon.de | amazon.ca

Thanks...

Thanks to the Creative Ashes blog for their review of DylanCover.com

First-of-month updates for February 1, 2008

The Dylan Covers DataBase has been updated,
adding 508 new covers for a new total of
21,208.
Included are 153 more entrants from the Dylan07 contest.
Click here to view New Additions Only
149 new images were added during the month.

Dylan Covers On-Line added 166 links, for a new total of 1,131.
Most of the new links are from the Dylan07/MySpace Dylan covers contest.

Dylan Title Tracks added 15 new items, for a new total of 1,286.
Some of the new additions are very rare.
Thanks to Ronald Born, H.P. Bushoff and Manuel Garcia Jara for this month's Title Tracks additions.

Thanks for all submissions & contributions to the DylanCover.com websites during January.

For a list of artists who had covers added to the DataBase during January 2008, click the "comments" link below this post.