Miscellaneous ramblings...

• Barb Jungr's new album, her first for Naim Label, includes You Ain't Going Nowhere (thus breaking her streak of at least 2 Dylan songs per album!) The Men I Love: The New American Songbook is scheduled for release March 8 in the UK, May 11 in the US.
Pre-order from amazon.com

• New covers from Down Under:
1) Jay Howie (Melbourne) performs All Along The Watchtower on his 6-track EP Live (available digitally from amazon.com + others, availabilty of physical CD unknown)
2) Olivia Pipitone (Sydney) covers Simple Twist Of Fate on her new CD Dirt Drenched Soul (CD Baby)

• Furthur, the latest project of the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, continues to tour. Many of their shows feature a Dylan song or two.
Soundboard recordings on CDR or downloads are available from furthur.net
Audience recordings of most shows are available at the Live MusicArchive.
Since December 9 they have performed Dylan covers at least 17 times, of 9 different songs: Hurricane, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Maggie's Farm, Queen Jane Approximately, Señor (Tales of Yankee Power), Silvio, Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, When I Paint My Masterpiece

• Missouri americana band Barefoot Jones covers Simple Twist Of Fate on their CD The Way You Make Me Feel (CD Baby). The track is also available for (free!) download on their website barefootjones.com

Jef Lee Johnson

See March 3 update

DataBase update: +100

Today's DataBase update added 100, new total 28,767.
Click the "UPDATE" link in the right sidebar to browse the new additions.

Miscellaneous ramblings...

• Swedish pop/country singer Jill Johnson covered What Good Am I? on her 2009 CD Music Row II
Thanks to Anton Bohnen

• Austrian band Monti Beton (who released a Dylan cover album in 2006) perform I Shall Be Released on their 2009 CD Best of Live Vol.2. montibeton.com

• Rhino is set to release a new Peter Paul & Mary CD that matches archival live vocal tracks from the last 20 years to newly recorded symphonic backing. The project was begun before Mary's passing. The Prague Sessions include Blowin' In The Wind.

• Intermittent Animals, a self-described "folkadelic psycho grass" band from Columbus Ohio has 2006-07 rehearsal and live recordings including nine Watchtowers and two Tom Thumb's Blues for free downloading on their website ia.padd.com (also follow links to 2006 sessions.)
Recently the band has been added to the Live Music Archive, with another Watchtower available HERE.

• My Boot Heels, a Dutch band fronted by Wouter Driessen, has several mp3s available on their webpage mybootheels.com: Most Likely Yo Go Your Way, Nettie Moore, Tangled Up In Blue.
The band's MySpace page has listen-only Like A Rolling Stone and Highway 61 Revisited.

• The 1990 recordings by Superelvis are available from the 16RPM label at the Internet Archive. Included are the Spanish band's Girl From The North Country and two versions of I
Want You.
16 RPM is a reissue netlabel based in Spain.
Thanks to Anton Bohnen

2nd Annual Battle of the Dylan Cover Bands

The 2nd Annual Battle of the Dylan Cover Bands presented by DylanRadio.com has begun.
Complete details and registration rules are located at dylanradio.com/battle

4 added to Dylan Cover Albums

I usually wait until I have the CDs in hand before officially adding albums to Dylan Cover Albums, but due to a backlog caused by a series of release/shipping delays and/or CDs missing in the mail I've added these four pending titles to the site today.
Click the titles to find the albums on the site.

Cinzia Tedesco
Like A Bob Dylan
Italian jazz vocalist Cinzio Tedesco presents a 10-song live album. This is not easy-listening jazz, almost every track starts slow but builds to a big finish that will shake your windows and rattle your walls. Note: most published tracklists, including the CD itself, reverse the last two tracks but shown here is the actual play order.
My CD is lost in the mail somewhere, but I've heard the album from iTunes.
Lay Lady Lay / Mr. Tambourine Man / Make You Feel My Love / I Shall Be Released / Just Like A Woman / Knocking On The Heaven's Door (sic) / Like A Rolling Stone / Meet Me In The Morning / Blowin' In The Wind / Hurricane (instrumental)
More info and ordering at CNI Music (Italy)
Available from iTunes


Swamp Dylan
Bliss Motel
This third album from Swamp Dylan can be heard on-line at SwampDylan.com
Current availability unknown. I was told the album was not "officially" released yet, and have received no furthur notice.
Had A Dream About You, Baby / Dreamin' Of You / Floater (Too Much To Ask) / Huck's Tune / Moonlight / Red River Shore / Po' Boy / Make You Feel My Love
Also on the album is Miss The Mississippi And You and Blood In My Eyes.


Sfuzzi East/West
Return of the Reluctant Prophet
Now received, the listing has been updated.
The US/Italy collaborative returns with a follow up to their well-received 2008 album of early Dylan tunes. On the new disc the band samples all of Dylan's song catalog.
It Takes A Lot To Laugh (It Takes A Train To Cry) / I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine / Everything Is Broken / Someday Baby / Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues / John Wesley Harding / I Pity the Poor Immigrant / Born In Time / Most of the Time / Ballad of A Thin Man / John Wesley Harding (Redux)
More info at Cello Room Productions
CD & mp3s available from CD Baby
Note: Also new from Sfuzzi East/West is "Songs for the other Bob" - the songs of Bob Marley.


various artists
Blowin' In The Wind: 20 versions
German release with 19 covers and a Dylan live version of BITW. Most of the versions are well know '60s recordings. Surprisingly missing is Peter Paul & Mary. Released Feb.5.
See March 1 update
Dionne Warwick / The Hollies / Cher / Bob Dylan (Live) / Duke Ellington / Marie Laforet / Marc Bolan / Edwin Hawkins Singers / Dr. Mock & The Flocks / The Seekers / Trini Lopez / Marianne Faithful / Bobby Darin / Johnny Rivers / The Ventures / Marlene Dietrich (Live) / Lester Sterling Group / Stanley Turrentine / Stan Getz / Joan Baez (Live)
Order from amazon.de

Final Sale

Final offering of the remaining items on my Rare CD+LP page. Save 10% on any one item, or 15% on 2 or more. All items will be withdrawn at the end of this month.

New from Sfuzzi East/West

Sfuzzi East/West has released Return Of The Reluctant Prophet, a second CD of Dylan covers.
The album will be added to Dylan Cover Albums soon.
More info at Cello Room Productions
Available from CD Baby


Thanks to Jean Fernandez for the tip.
Thanks to Jeff Winston.

The tracklist:
It Takes A Lot To Laugh (It Takes A Train To Cry) / I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine / Everything Is Broken / Someday Baby / Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues / John Wesley Harding / I Pity the Poor Immigrant / Born In Time / Most of the Time / Ballad of A Thin Man / John Wesley Harding (Redux)

New in the DylanCover.com collection: João Lopes

Blowing In The Wind (3:10)
João Lopes
Bicho Do Paraná Acústico
CD: Villa Biguá Artes VBA 0012 (Brazil - 2005)

The otherwise Portuguese album closes with BITW in English.
Available from: amazon.com

World Wide Dylan: Another New Morning

Another installment of Michael Tearson's World Wide Dylan is available at Radio That Doesn't Suck. This one is called Another New Morning, an alternate version of the album as cover versions plus a couple Self Portrait covers.
Go to radiothatdoesntsuck.com, open the Listen On Demand player and choose Michael's show in the pop-up window.

Kingston Trio page updated

This rare Japan-only 1972 LP with Blowin' In The Wind has been added to the Kingston Trio Collector's Guide. The album contains 1970 recordings made in Tokyo by the trio, known then as The New Kingston Trio.



Info and image courtesy of The Kingston Trio Place.
mp3 and more information is available there.

DataBase update: +151 - including 90+ free mp3s!

Today's DataBase update added 151,
for a new total of 28,536.
Click the "UPDATE" link in the right sidebar to browse the new additions.

NOTE:
This update includes links to 90+ free mp3s. After many hours of research, I have uploaded a summary page with annotations and links to this large group.

Swamp Dylan #3 to be released soon

Swamp Dylan will soon be releasing their 3rd album, Bliss Motel. The album includes 8 Dylan songs plus 2 songs Dylan has covered (Miss The Mississippi and You, Blood In My Eyes.)
The CD is not yet available, but the album can be heard on-line at SwampDylan.com
The album will be added to Dylan Cover Albums when it is released.

The Dylan covers:
Had A Dream About You, Baby / Dreamin' Of You / Floater (Too Much To Ask) / Huck's Tune / Moonlight / Red River Shore / Po' Boy / Make You Feel My Love

20X B.I.T.W.

To be released this week in Germany is Blowin' In The Wind.One Song, a CD with 20 versions of BITW! I do not yet have a complete tracklist, but many of the usual '60s covers are included: Cher, Bobby Darin, Johnny Rivers, Marlene Dietrich, etc.
The CD will be added to Dylan Cover Albums when complete details are available.
The collection is the latest in a series of similar releases by BuschFunk, earlier CDs include Summertime, Mack the Knife, House of the Rising Sun, and Satisfaction.
Thanks to John W. Bakke for the tip
CD available from amazon.de

11 New in Dylan Title Tracks

The first-of-month update of Dylan Title Tracks added 11 items, for a new total of 1,626.
Shown here is the rare 1965 UK sleeve with The Talismen's Masters Of War on the B-side.

Thanks to Ronald Born, Manuel Garcia Jara and Anton Bohnen for their submissions this month