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.
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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)