Derek Trucks Band covers Down In The Flood

The Derek Trucks Band is releasing a single of Down In The Flood through digital music services on November 4. The track is from their upcoming album Already Free, to be released in January 2009.

R.I.P. Merl Saunders

Merl Saunders has died at age 74.
As a leader, Merl covered Meet Me In The Morning on his 1976 LP You Can Leave Your Hat On, and again on his 2000 live album Struggling Man. He also often performed Dylan songs with Jerry Garcia, as a duo or in a group, notably on the Live At Keystone albums.

Zimming Point singles

Zimming Point offers free mp3 downloads of their new singles If I Don't Be There By Morning and Don't Ya Tell Henry at zimmingpoint.com

New & Old Julie Felix

Julie Felix has released a new CD, Highway of Diamonds, with five Dylan songs: Forever Young, Ain't Talkin' (as Mystic Garden), What Was It You Wanted, (Man In) The Long Black Coat and My Back Pages.
Available exclusively from the Julie Felix website.
Thanks to Anton Bohnen



Also released recently is First, Second & Third: The Complete Three Decca LPs 1964-1966, which includes Julie's 3 earliest Dylan covers: Masters Of War, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right and When The Ship Comes In.
Available from: amazon.co.uk

Both CDs have been added to the Julie Felix Collector's Guide

The Colorblind James Experience

The Colorblind James Experience, a Rochester NY based band, performed an annual Dylan Birthday show for many years. Highlights of their 1991 and 1992 shows are available on-line as mp3 podcasts. 17 Dylan covers, featuring numerous guest performers, are contained in the two Absolutely More! podcasts.
Episode 9 is the 1991 show, and Episode 8 is the 1992 show.
1991:
From A Buick 6 / Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie / Queen Jane Approximately / It's All Over Now, Baby Blue / Golden Loom (partial) / Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 / You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go / You Ain't Goin' Nowhere / Knockin' On Heaven's Door / Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
1992:
From A Buick 6 / Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine / This Wheel's On Fire / Everything Is Broken / Dear Landlord / Dark Eyes / Solid Rock
Thanks to Anton Bohnen

Note: Depending on your download method, your downloads may be mp3 or zip files. If you get zip files, simply rename the file (for example, rename Episode8.mp3.mp3-zip.zip to Episode8.mp3)

Tangled Up In Blues again... almost

Recently released by KRB Music in the U.S. is Contemporary Blues Interpret Bob Dylan, a CD that includes 9 of the 12 tracks from the 1999 Tangled Up In Blues (a.k.a. All Blues'd Up!) CD, with Susan Tedeschi's Don't Think Twice, It's All Right added.
The 10-track CD is part of a new "Blues on the Rocks" series that mirrors the original House of Blues series, and is budget priced (only $5.00 at my local Wal-Mart!) Several on-line sellers (including amazon.com, CD Universe) have listed the CD, typically with "Blues on the Rocks" as the artist.
The 3 tracks from the original release that are not included are Issac Hayes, R.L. Burnside, and John Hammond.
Since it's not a straight reissue of the earlier CD, I've listed it separately in Dylan Cover Albums HERE.
Thanks to John W. Bakke for the tip

Miscellaneous ramblings...

• Listen-only cover of Po' Boy by SuitCase on MySpace

• Zimming Point has added If I Don't Be There By Morning to their MySpace player

• Ernst Molden of Austria includes a German translation of Billy (as Willi) on his new album Foan. The disc is also available in a limited edition paired with his album Wien.

• Swiss singer Martin Hauzenberger includes the new Liebi minus null/Gränzelos (Love Minus Zero/No Limit) on his latest album Früecher Hütt Gäng, a collection of new & archive recordings. Also included is We D'se gsehsch (If You See Her Say Hello) from his 1985 LP Verreise.
Thanks to Dirk Krah

• British singer Adele releases Make You Feel My Love as a CD-single later this month, it's the 4th single from her debut album 19.

More LP scans in Forum

10 rare LP scans have been posted in the Forum HERE, including this Deutsche Hitparade collection of anonymous covers including Blowin' In The Wind.
scans courtesy of Ronald Born

Collector's Guides updates

• Graeme Allwright: added his new studio CD Des inédits... pour le plaisir with Soufflé par le vent, his own French translation of Blowin' In The Wind. Allwright first recorded Blowin' (in English) 35 years ago on his 1973 live LP A L'Olympia.
Thanks to Jean Fernandez

• James Last: several new LPs added, including this 1970 Happy Dancing 4 LP by older brother Robert Last with Wigwam as part of a medley.
Thanks to Ronald Born

• Holiday albums: added the German CD Folky Christmas, with Precious Angel.
Thanks to Dirk Krah

New/Old Fotheringay

The never released 2nd album by British folk-rock band Fotheringay, abandoned when the band split in 1970, has been mixed and completed after 38 years by the band's surviving members. Fotheringay 2 includes the Trevor Lucas vocal
of I Don't Believe You.
Correction: I Don't Believe You features vocals by Trevor Lucas, not Sandy Denny as previously reported.

Available from: amazon.com | amazon.co.uk | amazon.de

Complete unknowns

Here are a few translations that are credited to Bob Dylan on the records but cannot be identified by the title. Maybe someone out there has heard these and can identify the songs:

• Henri Dès - La Mariée (French) - LP: Enregistrement Public (1975)
• Giorgos & Nikos Tzavaras - Otan Arhizis (Greek) - LP: Pou Tha Pas (1982)

Thanks to Dirk Krah for these answers:
• Edi Ginseng änd The Roots - "Mach kes gstürm" is a translation of Don't Think Twice (Swiss/German)- CD: Jurafuess (1997)
• Martin Hauzenberger - We D'se gsehsch (Für M.) is a translation of If You See Her, Say Hello - (Swiss/German)- LP: Verreise (1985)
• Daniel Schmidt & Orchestrion - "68" is a translation of Blowin' In The Wind (Swiss/German)- LP: Rösslispil (1978)

First-of-month updates for October 1, 2008

The Dylan Covers DataBase has been updated,
adding 215 new covers for a new total of 23,346.
Click here to view New Additions Only
28 new images were added.

Dylan Title Tracks
added 17 new items, for a new total of 1,416.
Thanks to Ronald Born and Manuel Garcia Jara for this month's Title Tracks additions.

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

Click "Comment" for a list of artists who had covers added to the DataBase during September 2008.