Dead Wasp Sting is now available

Zimming Point's new album Dead Wasp Sting is now available for download from zimmingpoint.com. While there see how you can win a deluxe promo-CD copy of the album.

Guru Monkey added to Dylan Cover Albums

Some Trains Don't Pull No Gamblers by the Japan-based band Guru Monkey has been added to Dylan Cover Albums HERE.
You can hear a few tracks and get more info about the band and the album on MySpace.



The tracklist:
Quinn The Eskimo / Wagon Wheel / Seven Days / It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry / Bob Dylan's 115th Dream / I Threw It All Away / Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? / Tryin' To Get To Heaven / Silvio / Cry A While / Tombstone Blues / Idiot Wind / Bob Dylan's Dream / I'm Not There (1956) / Series Of Dreams / Percy's Song

New J.M. Baule added to Dylan Cover Albums

John Wesley Hardin (no "g" is intentional!) is the latest album of translations by J.M. Baule of Spain. The album of Castellano translations (and Knockin' in Catalán) is J.M.'s 5th full album of Dylan translations. Some of the tracks can be heard at MySpace.
The album has been added to the Dylan Cover Albums Translations section.

The tracklist (Castellano translations except KOHD):
John Wesley Hardin
Dignidad (Dignity)
Compadezco al pobre inmigrante (I Pity The Poor Immigrant)
La fuga del delincuente (Drifter's Escape)
La orilla que he de cruzar (Red River Shore)
Nacidos a la vez (Born In Time)
Maria y el soldado (Mary and The Soldier) (traditional)
¿Postitivamente? ¡En ello estamos! (Positively 4th Street)
Soñé que vi a San Agustin (I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine)
Séries de sueños (Series Of Dreams)
Billy
bonus tracks:
Nacidos a la vez (Born In Time) (Bandoneón version)
Trucant a les portes del cel (Knockin' On Heaven's Door) (Catalán)

Zimming Point promo-CD promotion

Review one song from Zimming Point's 3 albums and you could receive a deluxe promo-CD version of their new album Dead Wasp Sting and access to four unreleased on-line out-takes.
The ten most reasoned out song reviews submitted will be awarded the prize.
More info and instructions to participate at: zimmingpoint.com

Dead Wasp Sting will be available via download on 5/30.
This will be Zimming Point's final album, as for various reasons the project comes to an end.
Thanks to JB Heinink for keeping me well informed of the band's recordings over the past few years, I wish him and the other band members well in any future endeavors.

New Dennis Heller EP added

The new Dennis Heller EP Don't Think Twice, It's All Dylan has been added to the EPs page.
The 5-song EP is available from
CD Baby
The tracklist: Like A Rolling Stone / Tangled Up In Blue / Just Like A Woman / I Want You / Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

Dennis' 2003 CD Dylan in my Soul is also available
from CD Baby

How Many Roads re-released

The 2008 How Many Roads CD From Broadway To The Milky Way has been re-released in wider distribution by the Sonia label of DA Music, and is now available from Amazon.de
The new release adds "A Tribute To Bob Dylan" to the CD cover.
The album's listing at Dylan Cover Albums has been updated HERE

Yet another BobFest reissue

Thanks to all who have reported this CD (and DVD) available from many major retailers, however Tribute to Dylan is yet another abridged reissue of the 30th Anniversary Concert, a.k.a. BobFest. I have added it to the BobFest page along with all the previous unofficial and semi-official versions released by various minor labels, but I will only make additions to the main site page if Sony/Columbia reissues the concert.

More Dylan Mania info

The Dylan Mania CD has several tracks not listed on the download version at Amazon, it's unknown at this time if these are exclusive to the CD or just missing from the download tracklist. Additional tracks are All Along The Watchtower by Jehro, and Bryan Ferry's 1973 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall. Also included as hidden tracks are the Hurricane instrumental by Vitamin String Quartet from 2003's String Quartet Tribute to Bob Dylan, and Apothecary, Dylan's own spoken-word passage from No Direction Home ("I’m looking for a place that will, collect clip bath & return my dog. Cigarettes and Tobacco," etc...)
Ferry's track seems like an odd choice for this collection, the next oldest track being VSQ's Hurricane from 2003!
The tracklist reported earlier has been amended.

Thanks to Jean Fernandez for the added information

Coming attractions... UPDATED 5/26

Dylan covers projects in the works:
• Hugues Aufray (France): The New Yorker. French translations. Duets with Johnny Hallyday, Eddie Mitchell, Francis Cabrel and others. Scheduled: 9/14/09
• Toli Morilla (Spain): Diez Cantares de Bob Dylan N'Asturianu. 10 Asturian translations. End of May '09. MySpace
Please advise if you know of others

• Guru Monkey: Some Trains Don't Pull No Gamblers. Added to Dylan Cover Albums 5/26/09.
• J.M. Baule: John Wesley Hardin. Added to Dylan Cover Albums 5/22/09.
• Dennis Heller: Don't Think Twice It's All Dylan (EP). Added to Dylan Cover Albums 5/15/09.
• Zimming Point (Spain): Dead Wasp Sting. Added to Dylan Cover Albums 5/7/09.
• various artists: Dylan Mania. Added to Dylan Cover Albums 5/7/09.

The Last Waltz Ensemble

Easy Chair, a new album by The Last Waltz Ensemble includes Like A Rolling Stone, You Ain't Going Nowhere, Meet Me In The Morning, and Wagon Wheel.
Available from CD Baby.

Dylan Mania

Dylan Mania, the new various artist collection from France, will be available for download from Amazon-mp3 on 5/11. CD sales appear to be limited to Europe (Amazon.fr) so far.
The 20 covers (*3 are available only on the download version) were selected by Béatrice Ardisson. The CD is from the Naïve label of Paris, more info at their website. Most of the performers are from France, with a few from the U.S and elsewhere.
The album has been added to Dylan Cover Albums HERE.

The tracklist:
Medi and The Medicine Show featuring Charlie Winston : Like A Rolling Stone
Magnet featuring Gemma Hays: Lay Lady Lay
Vandaveer: The Man In Me
Jehro: All Along The Watchtower
Minuscule Hey: Subterranean Homesick Blues
Kim: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
The French Connection 3: I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Minimatic: Just Like A Woman
Automatiq: I Want You
Grand Panda featuring Dawn: Ballad of a Thin Man
These United States: To Ramona
Bryan Ferry: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Slumcats: Subterranean Homesick Blues
Kumisolo: Mr. Tambourine Man
*GRS Club: The Times They Are A-Changin'
*Hi Fi Klub: Tombstone Blues
Sheraff: Blowin' In The Wind
*Grand David: Like A Rolling Stone
Antony & The Johnsons: Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Vitamin String Quartet: Hurricane (2003 instrumental - hidden track)
Bob Dylan: Apothecary (hidden track - spoken word from N.D.H.)

Zimming Point: Dead Wasp Sting

Dead Wasp Sting by Zimming Point will be available soon as mp3 downloads from the Spanish band's website. The 16-track album includes 14 Dylan songs, plus Further On Up The Road and Richard Manuel's Basement Tapes song Orange Juice Blues.
Artwork and audio links will be available HERE on 5/30.
The album has been added to the Download Album page of Dylan Cover Albums.
Thanks to JB & Zimming Point

The tracklist:
If I Don't Be There By Morning / Clothes Line Saga / On the Road Again / Open the Door Homer / Catfish / Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast) / Don't Ya Tell Henry / New Orleans Rag / Further On Up the Road / Fur Slippers / Down Along the Cove / Champaign, Illinois / The Wicked Messenger / Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love?) / Spanish Harlem Incident / Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)

Vlada Živanović: Live in Studio

Live in Studio by Vlada Živanović (from Serbia-?) is an album of 13 Dylan covers (+ 2 Dylan-related songs) recorded in 1995, available as a free download via RapidShare. I have no information regarding the origins of this album, whether it was ever released officially or if this download is it's first appearance. Pending evidence to the contrary I've listed it on the Download Album page of Dylan Cover Albums.
The download is a 90MB rar file that includes the 15 224kbps mp3s and artwork. RapidShare link and limited info is also available HERE.
Thanks to Anton Bohnen for the tip

The tracklist:
Blowin' In The Wind / Girl Of The North Country / Baby Let Me Follow You Down / A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall / Don't Think Twice, It's All Right / Tomorrow Is A Long Time / The Times They Are A-Changin' / Ballad Of Hollis Brown / When The Ship Comes In / Billy / Down In The Flood / Tangled Up In Blue / Song To Woody / It's All Over Now, Baby Blue / House Of The Rising Sun

50 Best Dylan Covers of All Time

Paste Magazine has published a 50 Best Bob Dylan Covers of All Time list. Jimi is no surprise at #1, but some of their other top selections provide fodder for argument.
Thanks to Michael Tearson for the tip

6 new in Dylan Title Tracks

Dylan Title Tracks has been updated with 6 new items, for a new total of 1,512.
Included is this rare 1967 LP from Colombia (the country, not Columbia the label!), Ellos estan cambiando los tiempos by Los Young Beats.



Thanks to Manuel Garcia Jara and Ronald Born for their additions to Title Tracks this month.