Thursday, September 30, 2010

Polish mystery

This 1960s Polish EP by No To Co Grupa Skifflowa i Piotr Janczerski includes a track credited to B. Dylan and R. Tur (for the translation?) The track title is listed as Ballada bez tytulu (A Ballad Without Title.)
Thanks to Manuel Garcia Jara

Update: Hear this track on YouTube. I don't recognize a Dylan song though, sounds like Universal Soldier to me. Any Polish-speakers out there?
Thanks to Dag on Facebook

Update 2: Based both on the melody and some reverse translating, the concensus seems to be that this in not a Dylan song at all, but merely an error in the writer's credit :(

DataBase update: +124

Today's DataBase update added 124, new total 31,339.
Click the "UPDATE" link in the right sidebar to browse the new additions.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Maria re-issued

Maria Muldaur's Live in Concert - essentially a live version of her Dylan covers album with a few of her own songs added - has been reissued as a 2-disc CD+DVD combination by the UK Retroworld label. Content is the same as the original 2008 US CD and DVD, but with new artwork.
Oddly, the label's own listing reads Live in Concert 1974, although the content is clearly the 2007 concert.
[amazon.com][amazon.co.uk]

The album's listing at Dylan Cover Albums has been updated.
If anyone can provide the catalog number of this release, please advise.
Also if you can clarify the format and region of the DVD. Amazon-US states the DVD is NTSC/Region-O, Amazon-UK does not specify, although both are the same ASIN number, so caution is advised regarding compatibility of the DVD.

Teaterkoncert Bob Dylan

An original cast recording of Teaterkoncert Bob Dylan, an original production staged at Aarhus Teater in Denmark earlier this year is available on CD from the theater's website aarhusteater.dk
The double-CD includes performances of 28 Dylan songs in English. Produced by Peter Hellemann, cast includes Bjørn Fjæstad, Claus Hempler, Ulla Henningsen, Jacob Madsen Kvols, Liv Lykke, Ashok Peter Pramanik and Ole Thestrup.
More info about the album at castalbums.org
The album has been added to Dylan Cover Albums.
Thanks to Lars M. Banke

The tracklist:
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall / Blowin' In The Wind / One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) / It Ain't Me Babe / I Want You / Property Of Jesus / Simple Twist Of Fate / Ballad Of A Thin Man / Desolation Row / I'll Be Your Baby Tonight / All Along The Watchtower / Mr. Tambourine Man / Knockin' On Heaven's Door / Forever Young / Lay Lady Lay / Maggie's Farm / Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 / Just Like A Woman / Man In The Long Black Coat / It's All Over Now, Baby Blue / Everything Is Brokon / Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands / Gotta Serve Somebody / Mighty Quinn / Like A Rolling Stone / I Shall Be Released / The Times They Are A-Changin' / I Threw It All Away

Friday, September 24, 2010

NEW Esteban Páez album

Esteban Páez of Argentina has issued another free album of Dylan covers, his fourth. Three of the ten songs on El refugio de la serpiente eléctrica are performed in English and seven in Spanish (all the titles are listed in English.) Included are several rarely covered songs.
The album is available for free download at estebanpaez.com.ar (click "Descargar gratis este álbum")
The album will be added to Dylan Cover Albums soon.

The tracklist:
Jokerman / *True Love Tends To Forget / Changing Of The Guards / We Better Talk This Over / I Want You / *Oxford Town / Caribbean Wind / Most Of The Time / Maybe Someday / *Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
(*English)

Thursday, September 23, 2010

The Spokesmen on CD!

Reissue labels continue to mine the vaults for vintage records to reissue, both on CD and via download.
The That Philly Sound label has reissued the 1965 album by The Spokesmen, best known for The Dawn of Correction, its title-track answer song to Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction.
Of interest here - of course - are the album's two Dylan covers: Love Minus Zero/No Limit and It Ain't Me Babe.
[CD Baby] [thatphillysound.com]

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Tribute to BIABH

Pitchfork.com has reported that Reimagine Music will be releasing the digital-only various artist Subterranean Home Sick Blues: A Tribute to Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home on October 5.
Tracklist and more info at the Pitchfork link above.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Miscellaneous ramblings...

» Garland Jeffreys provides vocals for Buckets Of Rain on Barefoot and Flying, the upcoming album from NYC string band Ebony Hillbillies
Thanks to Michael Tearson

» The Party Ain't Over, the Jack White-produced album by Wanda Jackson with her cover of Thunder On The Mountain - suggested by Dylan himself - is now scheduled for 1/25/2011 release

» Ireland's Barry Kirwan made To Make You Feel My Love the title track of his new album.
[amazon.co.uk]

» See the DataBase "New Additions" for newly listed covers from Norway by Tore og koret, Anne Engh & Gondorff Brothers, Claudia Scott, Tabula Rasa, Tuva Livsdatter Syvertsen and Hanne Tveter
Thanks to Dag Braathen via Facebook

» First covers in the DataBase in the Occitan language: folksinger Patric performs La Filha del Nord (Girl From The North Country) on his live album Patric en concert: Made In Occitània, recorded in 2005, and (presumably a studio version) on his new album Colors
[MySpace] [iTunes]

» New "Oldie" dis-cover-ies:
- Edna Mae Horton - Precious Angel on 1985 US single - titled as Precious Angels - from gospel album Hymns For Him. Do you have any info about this record? Listed on the single sleeve are album tracks I Believe In You and What Can I Do For You that could be Dylan covers (confirmation required.)
Thanks to Manuel Garcia Jara
- Rocxanne - All Along The Watchtower on 1970's US single. Do you have any info about this record?
- It Ain't Me Babe on 1965 Hit Parader EP#37. This series of US 6-track 7-inch EPs presented anonymous/uncredited covers of hits-of-the-day at a bargain price.

» Recent 2 (or more) cover shows at Live Music Archive:
- Blues For Breakfast 9/17/10: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues + Mighty Quinn
- Garcia Grass 9/11/10: Simple Twist Of Fate + When I Paint My Masterpiece + Tangled Up In Blue
- Max Creek 3/6/98: Don't Think Twice + When I Paint My Masterpiece
- MiZ 9/13/10: Girl From The North Country + You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
- Smooth Kentucky 9/3/10: Positively 4th Street + She Belongs To Me

» CD Baby dis-cover-ies:
- The Blues Disciples - Highway 61 Revisited on Live at The Big Bend Blues Bash
- Clara Rose - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight on A Portrait
- Count To Fire - Man In The Long Black Coat on In Another Life
- Eran Troy Danner - Like A Rolling Stone on Lucky Day
- Larry Kennedy - Highway 61 Revisited on Kentucky Straight
- David Leonard - My Back Pages on The Quickening
- Noteworthy - Make You Feel My Love on No fella a cappella
- Ted Reece - Buckets Of Rain - digital single
- Smoble - Make You Feel My Love on Hits
- Georgia Whiting - My Back Pages - digital single

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DataBase update: +112

Today's DataBase update added 112, new total 31,216.
Click the "UPDATE" link in the right sidebar to browse the new additions.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Ben Sidran / Dylan Different Live

Dylan Different Live in Paris at The New Morning by Ben Sidran European 5et will be released by Bonsai Music in early November. The live album was recorded April 29th.
Further details will be posted when available.
Thanks to John W. Bakke
[amazon.co.uk][.de]

See the promotional video on YouTube

Friday, September 17, 2010

New Hendrix cover - UPDATED

The upcoming Jimi Hendrix boxset West Coast Seattle Boy includes a previously unreleased 1968 recording of Tears Of Rage.
Added:
Tears Of Rage
is also included on the single-CD condensed version of the 4-CD boxset. To be released 11/16/10.
[amazon.com][.uk][.de]

Janet Planet Sings The Bob Dylan Songbook

Janet Planet Sings The Bob Dylan Songbook Vol. 1 has now been added to Dylan Cover Albums HERE.
[CD Baby]

The tracklist:
All I Really Want To Do / Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You / Don't Think Twice, It's All Right / A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall / Boots of Spanish Leather / It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry / Like A Rolling Stone / I Shall Be Released / I'll Keep It With Mine / Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat / Just Like A Woman / Song To Woody / I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

Two EPs added

These two EPs have been added to Dylan Cover Albums:

»
1964 Singapore EP by Jackie DeShannon (Liberty EPS 3704) inludes the three Dylan covers from her debut LP (Blowin' In The Wind / Don't Think Twice, It's All Right / Walkin' Down The Line) plus 500 Miles.




»
1996 promotional-only 4-track CD-EP for Tim O'Brien's Red On Blonde album with Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) / Lay Down Your Weary Tune / Subterranean Homesick Blues / Farewell, Angelina

Thanks to Manuel Garcia Jara

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

THANK YOU


Many thanks to Karl Erik Andersen, Dirk Krah, Steve Ehli, Bill Hester, Anthony Jones, Jean Fernandez, Lars M. Banke and Michael Tearson for their donations towards the website's annual web-host bill, assuring DylanCover.com will remain on-line into our 13th year.

Thursday, September 09, 2010

Miscellaneous ramblings...

» Israeli singer Dafna has released a digital single of Tamid Tzair (Forever Young) in Hebrew
[amazon.com][.uk][.de]
[iTunes][CD Baby]

» The album 13 Most Beautiful: Music for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests by Dean & Britta includes two different versions of I'll Keep It With Mine.
[amazon.com][.uk][.de]
Thanks to Dirk Krah

» The Kruger Brothers perform Don't Think Twice, It's All Right on the various-artist collection MerleFest 2010 Live for The Bluegrass Trust Fund Volume One: Roots available on CD or by download from livedownloads.com

» Esteban Páez of Argentina has released 5 more live covers on En vivo en La Case del Palo Borracho, bonus tracks on his En vivo en Una medida adecuada a todo album. The new Spanish-language tracks were recorded 8/27/10. The entire album is available for free download from his website. Note that the 11/22/09 tracks were previously released on his now deleted album En vivo en la Plaza de los Inmigrantes
Jokerman / No Time To Think / Changing Of The Guards / Caribbean Wind / Shelter From The Storm
[album page at estebanpaez.com.ar]

» The Music Ruined My Life blog has posted several volumes of the Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan series of live ROIO Dylan covers. As of this posting the first four volumes are available. Click the "comments" link under each volume to find the download link (Mediafire.)
For a summary of the entire series go HERE

» Recent LMA 2-fers:
- The Electric Waste Band 8/23/10: Tangled Up In Blue + Mighty Quinn
- Liquid Dead 9/5/10: She Belongs To Me + When I Paint My Masterpiece
- Liquid Dead 9/6/10: When I Paint My Masterpiece + Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
- MiZ Acoustic Trio 9/6/10: Down In The Flood + Tangled Up In Blue

» Several Jerry Garcia Band covers have been added to bt.etree.org, check the DataBase's New Additions page
Forever Young (3) / I Shall Be Released (4) / Knockin' On Heaven's Door (2) / Simple Twist Of Fate (3) / Tangled Up In Blue (4)

» Oldie dis-cover-ies:
- Los Escolares: La respuesta está en el viento (BITW) (Éxitos Latinos - 1966 various artist Spain EP track - Mexican band - Spanish translation)
- Ian & Rose: Love Minus Zero (1976 Belgian single A-side - any info about this duo would be appreciated)
- The Legs: The Mighty Quinn (1978 US single B-side - female punk)
Thanks to Manuel Garcia Jara for 3 above

» CD Baby dis-cover-ies:
- Stephanie Bruce - From A Buick 6 on Whispers From the World Next Door (jazz vocal)
- Grievous Angel Band - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere on Grievous Angel: The Legend of Gram Parsons
- Chuck & Deb McAuley - Forever Young - digital single
- The Sound Sculpture - All Along The Watchtower - digital single

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

NEW: Janet Planet Sings The Bob Dylan Songbook

Jazz vocalist Janet Planet has released Janet Planet Sings The Bob Dylan Songbook Vol. 1.
More info will be posted when available.
[CD Baby]

see 9/17 update

Monday, September 06, 2010

DataBase update: +133

Today's DataBase update added 133, new total 31,104.
Click the "UPDATE" link in the right sidebar to browse the new additions.

I have broken my own ban on YouTube additions by adding 60+ covers by Slovenian singer-songwriter Chris Dylan, and a few others. I will not be searching YouTube for covers, but in future I will add the occasional cover that is reported to me, including those posted by others on Facebook.

Sunday, September 05, 2010

Odetta UK mono LP

The UK issue mono LP of Odetta Sings Dylan (RCA Victor RD-7703) has been added to the album's listing at Dylan Cover Albums.
Thanks to Manuel Garcia Jara

Friday, September 03, 2010

4 added to Dylan Cover Albums

These four recent releases (see previous posts) have now been added to Dylan Cover Albums.
Some details are still unknown, if you can provide them (catalog numbers, playing time, etc.) please advise.


» Gandalf Murphy & the Slambovian Circus of Dreams - The Circus Does Dylan (vocals)
» The Persuasions: Knockin' On Bob's Door (vocals)
» Ernst Jansz: Dromen van Johanna: Ernst Jansz singt Bob Dylan vertaald (translations [Dutch])
» How Many Roads: Black America sings Bob Dylan (various artist)

The Persuasions: Knockin' On Bob's Door

The Persuasions will be releasing Knockin' On Bob's Door, featuring a cappella versions of 14 Bob Dylan songs, on November 9.
See the album listing at Dylan Cover Albums HERE for more info and further links.

The tracklist:

Mr. Tambourine Man / All Along the Watchtower / Like a Rolling Stone / Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right / Quinn the Eskimo / Blowing in the Wind / Positively 4th Street / You Ain’t Going Nowhere / When I Paint My Masterpiece / Lay Lady Lay / Just Like a Woman / Things Have Changed / Forever Young / Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door

Thursday, September 02, 2010

Miscellaneous ramblings...

» Don't Think Twice is the title-track of the debut album by UK band Tamco, a project of vocalist Tammy Payne.
Thanks to Manuel Garcia Jara
[amazon.com][.co.uk][.de].[MySpace]

» More covers by Bj Cooper & The Broken Heart Express Band, on two download-only albums: the title-track of Everything Is Broken and If Dogs Run Free has the title-track plus Political World, Three Angels and Shooting Star.
Their I Shall be Released from earlier this year featured six Dylan songs.
Click on titles to hear samples and get more info at CD Baby.

» Australian singer/songwriter Luke Vassella covers Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You and Mississippi on his new CD All Those Paper Planes Part 1 & 2.
Thanks to Dirk Krah
[amazon.com].[lukevassella.com]

» NYC Dylan cover band The Complete Unknowns have 5 audio and 1 video covers on their MySpace player:
Subterranean Homesick Blues / Things Have Changed / It's All Over Now, Baby Blue / Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues / Absolutely Sweet Marie
video: Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

» Recent LMA 2-fers:
- The Honey Gitters 8/18/10: Yea! Heavy And A Bottle of Bread + If You Gotta Go, Go Now
- Sarah Jarosz Trio 8/14/10: Ring Them Bells + Meet Me In The Morning
- JGB 8/26/10: I Shall be Released + Tough Mama
- The Memphis Strange 8/24/10: One More Cup Of Coffee + Down In The Flood
- Mr. Blotto 9/13/02: Subterranean Homesick Blues + Queen Jane Approximately
- Ratdog 2/9/07: Señor + Masters Of War

» Stan Ridgway covers Lenny Bruce on his new album Neon Mirage.
[CD Baby]

»
More CD Baby dis-cover-ies
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry - The Electric Trains on Put The Track Back
- It Ain't Me Babe - Michele Isam on Songs of A Midwestern Girl
-
Gotta Serve Somebody + Man Gave Names To All The Animals - Just 4 Kicks on Joyful Noise (a cappella)
- It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - The Public on A Night Of Stone (Munich R&R band)
- I'll Be Your Baby Tonight - Mike Stone on Black Swan Nights
- Gotta Serve Somebody - MJ Territo on Down With Love (jazz vocal)

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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

100 Fans can't be wrong

Over 100 people "Like" the DylanCover.com page at Facebook. If you haven't yet, check it out, there is some different content there. The page's purpose is to create more awareness and interest in DylanCover.com and Dylan covers in general. It is not a personal page.
If you're logged-in as a Facebook user click the "Like" button to join the list (not the same as being a "Friend" on my personal page.) Users who "Like" the page can post their own links, videos, images, etc. - so it's not just me!
There is a permanent Facebook button in the sidebar of this page.

3 new in Dylan Title Tracks

Two sleeves and a CD were added to Dylan Title Tracks this month, including this 1965 Belgian sleeve with Don't Think Twice by Heinz.
The record is the standard UK 45, sold in Belgium in this fold-over cover.
Don't Think Twice was the last UK 45 by the German-born, UK-based, Joe Meek-produced Heinz,
a member of The Tornados.
[Wikipedia]
Thanks to Ronald Born and Hanns Peter Bushoff for their August submissions

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