Monday, August 31, 2009

Nobody Sings Dylan #29

Volume 29: Time is a Jet Plane has been added to the Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan series page of Dylan Cover Albums.

Links to the BitTorrents of all 29 volumes at dimeadozen.org are available on the page, and artwork for all volumes can be found HERE.

Aufray Chante Dylan - 2007 & 2009 reissues info required

Details of the 2007 "Limited Edition" and 2009 reissues of Aufray Chante Dylan would be appreciated. Label & number, bonus tracks if any, description of packaging and artwork, etc.

Friday, August 28, 2009

The Beatles play Bob Dylan

I've had some difficulty deciding what to do with The Beatles play Bob Dylan, a newly circulating bootleg LP. I don't normally list bootlegs on the site, and despite the title this LP isn't really a "Dylan cover album," with only 5 of 21 tracks being Dylan songs, and three of those are only short fragments (Blowin' In The Wind, Please Mrs. Henry, All Along The Watchtower.)
George performs the other two Dylan songs solo, approximately 2 minutes each - I Threw It All Away and Mama You Been On My Mind.
The LP, issued on blue vinyl, is Volume 3 of "The Beatles Sweet Apple Trax" series.
All the tracks are from the January 1969 Get Back/Let It Be Sessions.
I have had a few readers suggest the album, so ultimately I decided to list the LP in the Near Misses section.
Thanks to Ronald Born for the scan & info.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

The Village includes 6 Dylan covers

429 Records has brought together a stellar roster of artists for a project titled The Village: A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village - “a musical homage to an influential scene that thrived during an incomparable era in the history of rock music...”
Full tracklist and more info

The project includes 6 Dylan songs (covers)
Lucinda Williams - Positively 4th Street
Shelby Lynne - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Rocco DeLuca - Ballad of Hollis Brown
Rickie Lee Jones - Subterranean Homesick Blues
Mikey Powell - Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
The Duhks - It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding

To Be Released 11/3/09
Thanks to Michael Tearson for the tip

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Thank You...

...to all who have made donations to DylanCover.com this summer, you've helped offset the costs of keeping the 'site on-line. It's heartening to see a few new names in addition to the "old timers" who have always been very generous. Donations are especially appreciated this year, as earnings from affiliate links have declined sharply due to the economy and reduced traffic to the website.
Thanks to: Dr. Hanns Peter Bushoff, Jean Fernandez, Dirk Krah, Lars M. Banke, Joseph Pohlschneider, Steve Ehli, Matthias Wagner, Bill Hester, Bert Fehlow

Toli Morilla now at CD Baby (again!)

Diez Cantares de Bob Dylan N'Asturianu by
Toli Morilla
is now back in stock at CD Baby. Easy international shipping.
Ordering via this link helps support DylanCover.com - Thanks

Monday, August 03, 2009

R.I.P. Billy Lee Riley

Billy Lee Riley, the Sun Records rockabilly artist best known for the classics Flying Saucers Rock and Roll and Red Hot has died at age 75.
Riley included 3 Dylan instrumentals on his 1966 album Funk Harmonica!: Like A Rolling Stone, Blowin' In The Wind and Mr. Tambourine Man. In recent years he guested on two albums by Doug Spartz, playing - and singing! - on 2 more Dylan covers: Love Minus Zero/No Limit (2006) and Ring Them Bells (2007).

Funk Harmonica! is available as a "CD-R on demand" from amazon.com

Saturday, August 01, 2009

8 New in Dylan Title Tracks

Dylan Title Tracks has been updated with 8 new items, for a new total of 1,557.
Included is this 1966 Turtles No soy yo nena (It Ain't Me Babe)
EP from Mexico. A later reissue (previously listed in Title Tracks) has the photo reversed!
Thanks to Manuel Garcia Jara and Ronald Born for their submissions to Title Tracks this month