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Winter reminder...

2010-01-06T11:45:00.001-05:00

Please consider supporting DylanCover.com and The Dylan Covers DataBase by making a donation using the PayPal link in the right sidebar.
Donations help offset the costs of keeping the site on-line.
--Thanks, D.P.

DataBase update: +63

2010-01-06T10:46:00.001-05:00

Today's DataBase update added 63,
for a new total of 28,055.
Click the "UPDATE" link in the right sidebar to browse the new additions.

Dirk sings Dylan

2010-01-04T12:18:00.003-05:00

German songwriter Dirk Darmstaedter will release a Dylan cover album titled Dirk sings Dylan on January 29. The CD will be available from his website, and digitally from iTunes & other sources.
The album will be added to Dylan Cover Albums when more details are available.

The tracklist:
All I Really Want To Do / Subterranean Homesick Blues / Boots of Spanish Leather / Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands / Mr. Tambourine Man / It Ain't Me, Babe / Simple Twist Of Fate / Chimes Of Freedom / Shelter From The Storm / He Was A Friend Of Mine

Thanks to Matthias Wagner for the report

HAPPY NEW YEAR

2010-01-01T00:02:00.000-05:00

9 New in Dylan Title Tracks

2010-01-01T00:01:00.006-05:00

The first-of-month update of Dylan Title Tracks added 9 items, for a new total of 1,615.
Shown here is a 1966 Billy Lee Riley EP from Mexico with his instrumental Blowin' In The Wind (La respuesta esta en el viento.)

Thanks to Ronald Born for his submissions this month

DataBase update: +73

2009-12-31T14:11:00.003-05:00

The last update of the year added 73 to the DataBase, for a new total of 27,992. 3,541 were added during 2009.
Click the "UPDATE" link in the right sidebar to browse the new additions.

New in 3 or More: Ava Wynne

2009-12-31T00:20:00.003-05:00

Added to 3 or More:
Ava Wynne
Reason To Love
I Believe In You
To Make You Feel My Love
When The Deal Goes Down

More info, samples, CD and mp3s available from CD Baby.

Steffen Brandt update: bonus track

2009-12-30T13:51:00.004-05:00

The 3-LP vinyl version of Steffen Brandt's Baby Blue includes a bonus track, Pigen fra provinsen (Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.)
The extra track is also available from some digital services, such as tdconline.dk
Thanks to Hans-Henrik Dragsbæk Madsen

Bryan Ferry: free live mp3

2009-12-30T11:48:00.003-05:00

A free live mp3 of Positively 4th Street is available at BryanFerry.com. The track was recorded during Ferry's 2007 Dylanesque tour, venue and date are unknown.
Thanks to Michael Tearson

Dylan cover bands/performers

2009-12-28T13:51:00.004-05:00

Recently discovered Dylan cover bands and performers:
• Baladas de un Tipo Flaco (Spain) - 8 audio streams on MySpace
• The New Fools (Belgium) - 12 videos on YouTube
• Ukelele-player Ira Lightman (UK) - 20 videos on YouTube

New from The Beards

2009-12-28T13:27:00.004-05:00

Diggin' Fingers, the new album by Italian band The Beards includes Million Dollar Bash and This Wheel's On Fire. The album also includes covers of The Band, Johnny Cash & others. Released in the US by Ancient Records, the CD is packaged in a 6x6-inch booklet that also contains a "Adventure of The Beards" comic book.

Available from their website or CD Baby.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

2009-12-20T17:21:00.005-05:00

from DylanCover.com

Thanks to all who have contributed to and supported the website during 2009 and for the past 11 years

Regards,
Dave P.

New Yorker "Livre Disque" version released

2009-12-16T11:17:00.006-05:00

The limited-edition "Livre Disque" version of Hugues Aufray's New Yorker album has been released in France, featuring a 14-page bound-in booklet with several additional photos and a bonus track, Tu Dois Servir Quelqu’un (Gotta Serve Somebody.) The new version is distinguished by red title text replacing the green of the regular CD. The album listing at Dylan Cover Albums has been updated.
Thanks to Jean Fernandez for the update.

Limited Edition CD at amazon.com
Regular CD at amazon.com

NEW: Aubrey Nicole - Dylan Revisited digital-EP

2009-12-11T10:46:00.003-05:00

L.A.-based singer Aubrey Nicole's recording debut is Dylan Revisited, a download-only 4 song EP. The RBL Records release was produced and arranged by her father, well-known session keyboardist Robbie Buchanan.
I have added the EP to Dylan Cover Albums HERE, as by "Nicole, Aubrey." If evidence arises that it should be listed as by "Aubrey Nicole" I will move it.
More info at MySpace.
It Ain't Me Babe / Like A Rolling Stone / Mr. Tambourine Man / Blowin' In The Wind

The EP is available only from digital services, including CD Baby and iTunes.

NEW!! The "3 or More" pages

2009-12-06T00:05:00.004-05:00

I have added a new section to Dylan Cover Albums,
the 3 or More pages.
This section will feature all past & present albums with 3 or more Dylan covers that do not appear on any of the other main pages of the site (a few from minor pages will be repeated.)
The new pages can be accessed through the NEAR MISSES / 3+ button on the Dylan Cover Albums main menu page, then choose 3 OR MORE. Albums are arranged alphabetically by artist with each letter on a separate page, plus a various-artist album page.
The premiere of the 3 or More pages lists over 160 albums.

As always, comments and/or suggestions are welcome.

R.I.P. Liam Clancy

2009-12-04T23:49:00.000-05:00

14 New in Dylan Title Tracks

2009-12-01T00:04:00.001-05:00

The first-of-month update of Dylan Title Tracks added 14 new items, for a new total of 1,606.
Included are the first Title Tracks entries of Simple Twist Of Fate (including this promo-only Bryan Ferry CD-single,) To Be Alone With You and When I Paint My Masterpiece.
Thanks to Manuel Garcia Jara, Ronald Born and Hanns Peter Bushoff for their submissions to Title Tracks this month

Berkeley Halloween Dylan tribute show now at LMA

2009-11-29T11:38:00.003-05:00

The Halloween night Dylan tribute show in Berkeley California mentioned earlier this month is now available at the Live Music Archive. The Ghosts Of Electricity (an all-star band assembled for the event featuring Mark Karan, Stu Allen, Pat Nevins, and others - not the NY band Ghosts of Electricity) 24-song concert is a great soundboard recording.

Set 1
Tangled Up In Blue / Takes A Lot To Laugh / Queen Jane Approximately / The Man In Me / Just Like A Woman / The Ballad Of Frankie Lee / Stuck Inside Of Mobile / Señor / You're A Big Girl Now / Highway 61 Revisited
Set 2
Knockin' on Heaven's Door / Like A Rolling Stone / Ballad Of A Thin Man / Visions Of Johanna / The Times They Are A Changin / Things Have Changed / Idiot Wind / All Along The Watchtower / Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You / She Belongs To Me / I'll Be Your Baby Tonight / Baby Let Me Follow You Down
Encore
Standing In The Doorway / Maggie's Farm

Happy Thanksgiving

2009-11-26T00:37:00.000-05:00

Steffen Brandt's Baby Blue added to Dylan Cover Albums

2009-11-18T10:48:00.004-05:00

Baby Blue: Bob Dylan gendigtet by Steffen Brandt has been added to Dylan Cover Albums HERE. The tracklist and more info is available there.
Brandt is the lead singer of the Danish rock band TV-2.
The 2-CD set - also released on LP - of 18 Danish-language Dylan covers is on the A:larm Music label. More info (in Danish) is available at their website.
CD and LP versions are available internationally from imusic.dk.

Thanks to Lars M. Banke for the report

New Dylan Cover Album from Denmark

2009-11-16T17:27:00.007-05:00

See 11/18 update

Joni & JT sing Mr. Tambourine Man

2009-11-10T14:35:00.007-05:00

Available only from the project's website is Amchitka: the 1970 concert that launched Greenpeace. The first disc features Phil Ochs & James Taylor, the 2nd disc is Joni Mitchell.
During her set, Joni's own Carey segues into a nearly 7 minute Mr. Tambourine Man, with JT joining her midway.

The CD is available only from amchitka-concert.com

Willie covers B.I.T.W.

2009-11-10T09:58:00.005-05:00

Willie Nelson covers Blowin' In The Wind - a short 1:42 - on a new benefit CD released today.
100% of the net proceeds from the sale of the Coal Country Music various-artist CD go to the Alliance for Appalachia to stop mountaintop removal.
More information at the album's webpage.
CD or full-album download available from amazon.com

Pat Guadagno's Bob Fest '09 added to Dylan Cover Albums

2009-11-09T14:15:00.003-05:00

That's a Bob Dylan Song: Bob Fest '09 has been added to Dylan Cover Albums HERE (tracklist and additional links and info available there.)
The 2-CD, 29-song album was recorded at Pat Guadagno's annual Bob Fest, May 19 2009 at the Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey.
It's a great concert, highly recommended. Several members of the Tired Horses band sing lead or share vocals on a few songs.
CD or mp3-download are available from CD Baby

Dylan tribute at bt.etree.org

2009-11-08T13:25:00.007-05:00

A Halloween night Dylan tribute show in Berkeley California, credited to "Ghosts Of Electricity" (a one-off band including Stu Allen, Pat Nevins, Mark Karan and others,) is available at bt.etree.org. 23 songs from the show are available in two separate incomplete tapings.
Show #529637 is missing the last few songs.
Show #529641 is missing the first set but includes the end of the show and encores.

Now also at LMA - see 11/29 post