Miscellaneous ramblings...

» Blues guitarist Albert Castiglia includes the rarely covered 'Til I Fell In Love With You on his upcoming album Keepin On, to be released 8/10.
Thanks to Michael Tearson

» Country star Dierks Bentley releases a bluegrass album on 6/8. Up on the Ridge includes Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) featuring Chris Thile with the Punch Brothers.
[amazon.com]
Thanks to Michael Tearson

» The Electric Waste Band celebrated Bob Dylan's birthday (5/24) by playing six Dylan songs in their show, available at Live Music Archive:
The Mighty Quinn / I Shall Be Released / Maggie's Farm / Knockin' On Heaven's Door / Tangled Up In Blue / All Along The Watchtower

» Athens, Ohio band Duke Junior and The Smokey Boots performed three Dylan songs at their April 22 show in their hometown, available at Live Music Archive:
Simple Twist Of Fate / Odds and Ends / If You Gotta Go, Go Now
The band has often played Walkin' Down The Line and/or You Ain't Goin' Nowhere in other shows available at LMA.

» Philadephia jam band Steal Your Face performed four Dylan songs at their May 25 show in Philadelphia, torrent available at bt.etree.org:
Tangled Up In Blue / Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues / It's All Over Now, Baby Blue / Knockin' On Heaven's Door

» Melvin Seals and JGB played three Dylan songs at their May 12 show in Oregon. Due to long track lengths, none of the three are available individually but a full-show download can be purchased from livedownloads.com:
Tough Mama / Knockin' On Heaven's Door / Tangled Up In Blue
AUD recordings of JGB shows are usually llisted at LMA, but this show has not yet appeared.

» John Mayer played Don't Think Twice at several shows during his recent tour in Australia and Japan. Free full-show downloads can be found at tryjm.com
- Newcastle, NSW Australia - 5/7/10
- Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney Australia - 5/8/10
- JCB Hall, Tokyo Japan - 5/11/10
At several earlier shows in the US, Mayer performed part of Just Like A Woman as part of a medley.

» Pearl Jam has closed some recent shows with All Along The Watchtower. Audience recordings available from bt.etree.org. Official release of the shows will be available on CD or download from pearljam.com
- Hartford CT - 5/15 [bt.etree.org][pearljam.com]
- Newark NJ - 5/18 [bt.etree.org][pearljam.com]

» CD Baby dis-cover-ies:
All Along The Watchtower - Oakland-Turner (string harp + guitar new-age instrumental)

DataBase update: +87

Today's DataBase update added 87, new total 30,087.
Click the "UPDATE" link in the right sidebar to browse the new additions.

NEW in Video: Dylanfest 2009

Now available is a DVD-R of The 19th Annual Dylanfest 2009. The 7-hour event hosted by Andy Hill and Renee Safier with their band Hard Rain was held May 30, 2009 in El Segundo, California, and featured more than 50 musicians performing over 50 Dylan songs.
Included on the DVD are 15 full performances, all but one featuring Hard Rain fronted by Andy and Renee or several guest vocalists (see list below for details.) Also included are 2 montages with clips of other performances and commentary by Andy and Renee.

The DVD has been added to Dylan Cover Albums' Video page.

For more info about Hard Rain, future Dylanfests (the 20th Annual Dylanfest 2010 was held earlier this month,) and ordering the DVD visit andyandrenee.com

The tracklist:
Blowin' In The Wind / Mr. Tambourine Man / Emotionally Yours / Shelter From The Storm / Things Have Changed / Black Diamond Bay / It Ain't Me Babe (with Karen Nash) / Pressing On (performed by The 8-Tracks) / It's All Over Now, Baby Blue / Blind Willie McTell (with Fuzzy Thurston) / Highway 61 Revisited (with Bob Malone) / Subterranean Homesick Blues / Like A Rolling Stone (with Joel Gilbert) / All Along The Watchtower / Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

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Battle of the Dylan Cover Bands - Voting now open

DylanRadio.com's Battle of the Dylan Cover Bands tournament round has begun. Vote for your favorites in the 25 head-to-head contests. Sign-in or free registration required to vote.
More info

Miscellaneous ramblings...

» Live in Tokyo 1983, a new CD (and separate DVD) by The Band includes I Shall Be Released. The Cate Brothers Band joins the Robbie-less The Band for this September 2, 1983 concert.
[amazon.com]

» Recent "Oldie" discoveries:
- Blowin' In The Wind (instrumental) - Byron Lee and The Dragonaires - LP: Plays Jamaica Ska (1964 - Jamaica) Still performing! byronleemusic.com
- Lay Lady Lay - Steve Logan - LP: My Kind Of Life (1969 - US)
- Blowin' In The Wind - Twin Polio - LP: I Love You (various artists - 1969 - Korea)

» Covers by Native American artists:
- All Along The Watchtower - Greg Serrato - CD: Live At The Coach House (2005) - blues-rock guitarist from California
[CD Baby]
- I Shall Be Released - Tonemah - CD: Welcome to Your Rainy Day (2007) - Album won the 2007 Native American Music Award for Best Folk Recording
[CD Baby][website]

» Italy's Shady Grove Band performed 4 Dylan covers at their May 12th show in Venice, available at the Live Music Archive.
Like A Rolling Stone / Million Dollar Bash / Love Minus Zero/No Limit / From A Buick 6

» The Last Waltz Ensemble performed 4 Dylan covers at their May 17th show, available as a Bit Torrent at bt.etree.org.
Like A Rolling Stone / Don't Think Twice, It's All Right / Tangled Up In Blue / You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

» The quartet of Kris Gloer / Benji Shanks / David Fish / Kevin Rutschman performed 4 Dylan covers at their May 13th show in Atlanta, available as a Bit Torrent at bt.etree.org.
Forever Young / It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry / You Ain't Goin' Nowhere / Down Along The Cove

New in the DylanCover.com collection:Brother James

One Too Many Mornings (4:01)
Brother James
Days
CD: Black Candy BC007 (Italy - 2004)

Mini-album (30:21) from Italian "noise" band Brother James offers a droning slow-paced cover of One Too Many Mornings. Recorded in March 2003, released in 2004.
Fans of this type of music might disagree, but I don't think this song works well in this style.
I doubt the album artwork won any awards!
Album info at: blackcandy.it / CD available from: amazon.com

Danny Roberts cassette

The listing for the Danny Roberts Los Exitos de Bob Dylan album has been updated with the addition of the scan and details of the cassette version. The Spanish cassette has the same 10-tracks as the LP.
Thanks to Ger Hemel

Lord Brynner: I Shall Be Released

It's confirmed that this 1968 Jamaican single by Lord Brynner is Dylan's I Shall Be Released. (Hilary LB-405)
Thanks to Dr. Hanns Peter Bushoff

Dylan events

I hope anyone attending any of the numerous worldwide Dylan events being held over the next few days has a "whopping good time!"

Tom Jones covers What Good Am I?

Tom Jones covers Dylan's What Good Am I? on his upcoming single and album.
The single (listed at Amazon-UK in 7" and digital versions - no CD-single listed yet) is to be released June 7th, Tom's 70th birthday. The A-side/1st track is a cover of John Lee Hooker's Burning Hell.
The album titled Praise And Blame will be released in July 26 or August 10 (sources vary.)
A free download of What Good Am I? can be found at drownedinsound.com

Bob Dylan's Dream: May 24 in Florence

BOB DYLAN'S DREAM
24 MAY 2010
STUDIO THEATER SCANDICCI
FLORENCE ITALY
See the poster

May 24 , in Italy, is the commemoration of an old battle in the First World War, a great debacle for the Italian Army. But everybody knows the date is DYLAN's birthday, celebrated all over the world.

This show, presented for the first time in the Puccini Theatre in Florence 3 years ago, is not just a celebration of Dylan's songs, it is just a little funny musical, handmade with Dylan Songs, but also with four original texts, with the Spanish cover of HARD RAIN, the hidden flamenco thru ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER, the continuing series of many singers on stage.

Acquaraggia - Giuseppe Oliverio, Gabriele Savarese, Aldo Viti, Domenico Arcuri - is the local-band in this show, but other musicians will sing and play.

It will be a surprising show !!

Michael Tearson on Radio That Doesn't Suck

Radio host Michael Tearson - frequently credited here - has several shows on the playlist of Radio That Doesn't Suck. Several of his shows, some Dylan-cover related, are available for on-demand listening.
Go to radiothatdoesntsuck.com, and click the Listen On Demand player and choose one of Michael's shows in the pop-up window.
Read Michael's bio on the RTDS About Us page.

DataBase @ 30K !

The Dylan Covers DataBase has reached 30,000 !

Today's DataBase update added 64.
Click the "UPDATE" link in the right sidebar to browse the new additions.

Derek Trucks Band: Live Down In The Flood

Roadsongs, a 2-CD live collection by The Derek Trucks Band includes Down In The Flood recorded at one of the band's April 2009 shows in Chicago. To be released June 22.
[amazon.com][amazon.co.uk][amazon.de]

Herbie Hancock covers Times

Jazz keyboard legend Herbie Hancock covers The Times They Are A-Changin' on his new album The Imagine Project, to be released June 22. The track was recorded in Ireland and features Lisa Hannigan on vocals and The Chieftains.
Thanks to Matthias Wagner
[amazon.com][amazon.co.uk][amazon.de]

Battle of the Dylan Cover Bands - UPDATE

The audition phase of DylanRadio.com's 2nd annual Battle of the Dylan Cover Bands is now complete. The list of 50 entrants that will continue into the voting phase is HERE. Many names on the list will be familiar to readers of this blog. The tournament style competition will begin soon.

Miscellaneous ramblings...

» Winston Apple's Alias: Zimmerman! (see April 22 post) is now also available from iTunes

» The British vocal group All Angels sing Blowin' In The Wind on their album Fly Away, the 3rd by the "classical crossover" female quartet.
[amazon.com][amazon.co.uk][amazon.de]

» Kris Kehr and Mike Mizwinski played three Dylan songs at their May 7th show, available at Live Music Archive: Shelter From The Storm / Simple Twist Of Fate / She Belongs To Me

» Splintered Sunlight played three Dylan songs at their May 6th show, available at Live Music Archive: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues / Queen Jane Approximately / All Along The Watchtower

» Masters Of War by Barbara Dane can be heard at Wolfgang's Vault, from a 1967 concert at the Ash Grove in L.A.

» Oldie discovered: One Too Many Mornings - 1967 single B-side by Wisconsin garage band The Hitch Hikers (Cuca 6741,) reissued on the 2006 compilation CD Garagemental!: The Cuca Records Story, Vol. 2
Thanks to Mike Griffiths
(Can use a scan of the 45 label if anyone can provide it)

» More CD Baby dis-cover-ies:
License To Kill - Jon Carroll
I Don't Believe You - Hello Central
Just Like A Woman - Adam Levy & Amber Rubarth
Make You Feel My Love - A Melodic Daydream (download-only single)

Saint Hill: You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere is a free download album of Dylan covers by Florida-based band Saint Hill. The download consists of 13 160Kbps mp3s (59.7MB.)
The album has been added to Dylan Cover Albums HERE.



Available from grandnationalchampionships.com
Thanks to Anton Bohnen

The tracklist:
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere / Let Me Die In My Footsteps / Mama You Been On My Mind / When The Ship Comes In / I Shall Be Released / It Ain't Me Babe / My Back Pages / It's All Over Now, Baby Blue / Queen Jane Approximately / If Not For You / With God On Our Side / Positively 4th Street / Forever Young

R.I.P. Lena Horne

Miscellaneous ramblings...

» Pass The Jar by The Zac Brown Band includes a live I Shall Be Released on the CD portion only of the CD+DVD set.
[amazon.com]

» What Was It You Wanted by Al Diesan and His Band (their entry in DylanRadio.com's Battle of the Dylan Cover Bands) can be heard at al-diesan.it

» I always assumed the CD Greenfields & Other Gold by The Brothers Four was a collection of their '60s recordings, but have been informed that the album is 1996 re-recordings, including Blowin' In The Wind and Don't Think Twice.
[CD Baby]
Thanks to Anton Bohnen for the info.

» In Concert, a 2009 Romanian CD by Ducu Bertzi & Florian Pittis includes Vin la rand alte vremuri (The Times They Are A-Changin')
Thanks to Anton Bohnen

» For you disco fans out there - and who isn't? - Lay Lady Lay by Showdown has been reissued on Meco Presents Camouflage/Showdown. The two LPs by the disco groups were released by Meco - best remembered for his own Star Wars disco remixes - on his Honey Bee label in the '70s. Lay Lady Lay is part of a medley with Gotta Get Into You.
[CD Baby] (mp3 download only)
[amazon.com](CD or mp3)

» Atlanta's Charlie Wooton Project performed three Dylan songs at their March 10 show in Atlanta, available for free listen or download at the Live Music Archive.
Don't Think Twice / She Belongs To Me / Down Along The Cove

» More CD Baby dis-cover-ies:
Knockin' On Heaven's Door - James Avery
Subterranean Homesick Blues - M.E.R.L. (Link is wrong, listen to Track 13)
Along The Watchtower (Live in Berlin (2007) DVD) - Randy Hansen Band
Along The Watchtower (Live 2008 DVD) - Randy Hansen Band
Outlaw Blues - Timecat
As I Went Out One Morning - Porch
It Ain't Me Babe - Dieter Weslowski
She Belongs To Me - Baffle The Cat
Buckets Of Rain - Grievous Angel

“Twisting Bob” at CD Baby

Twisting Bob by Gilbert Hetherwick is now available from CD Baby. The four-track EP was recorded in 2000 and has been available from the artist but never officially sold until now.
The EP is listed at Dylan Cover Albums HERE.

The tracklist:
Subterranean Homesick Blues / Love Minus Zero/No Limit / Outlaw Blues / Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

Battle of the Dylan Cover Bands - UPDATE

DylanRadio.com's 2nd annual Battle of the Dylan Cover Bands is now closed. Details about the contest are HERE.
The 60 entrants are available for listening at DylanRadio.com.
A panel of judges will now decide who advances to the public voting phase of the contest. Once the tournament-style voting begins, I urge all readers to support their favorites. Many of the entrants are friends of this site and have often been mentioned here.
Please note: I've received a few messages assuming that I am involved in the DylanRadio.com contest. I am not. I am posting updates here only as an interested observer and to support all the entered bands. I have no connection to the contest. Please address any questions or comments regarding the contest to DylanRadio.com

4 New in Dylan Title Tracks

The first-of-month update of Dylan Title Tracks added 4 items, for a new total of 1,655.
Thanks to Ronald Born