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Kokomo: In The Well added to Dylan Cover Albums

2008-05-14T01:02:00.004-04:00

In The Well by New Zealand's Kokomo has been added to Dylan Cover Albums HERE.
The album is described as “The songs of Bob Dylan given a unique treatment - blues seasoned with jazz, country and roots influences.”
Official release date is May 24.
Available now from CD Baby

The tracklist:
On A Night Like This / It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry / Things Have Changed / You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go / Dignity / Absolutely Sweet Marie / Highway 61 Revisited / Tryin' To Get To Heaven / Down In The Flood / Queen Jane Approximately / Tangled Up In Blue / Cat's In The Well

Miscellaneous ramblings...

2008-05-12T17:35:00.004-04:00

• Added to the EPs page of Dylan Cover Albums is this 1993 UK promotional EP for The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration.
I normally would not include promo-only items, but have included this due to it's interest to collectors.
The tracklist, all from the released CD:
My Back Pages - Bob Dylan & Guests
The Times They Are-Changin' - Tracy Chapman
All Along The Watchtower - Neil Young
Mr. Tambourine Man - Roger McGuinn
Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan & Guests
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Eric Clapton
Thanks to Manuel Garcia Jara for the scan & info

• Joe Cocker's Hymn For My Soul with it's cover of Ring Them Bells, released last year in the UK and Europe, finally gets released in the USA this week (5/13)
CD available from amazon.com
Ring Them Bells is available from amazon-mp3

• Zimming Point now has 4 tracks of their new album project available at zimmingpoint.com

• Voting in the German "I'm Not There" contest continues through May 16.
Go HERE. Logging in to MySpace is required to vote.

More Maria Muldaur news...

2008-05-12T02:17:00.003-04:00

Maria Muldaur's next album, to be released July 22 by Telarc, is a collection of songs of peace and protest.
Yes We Can: The Pro Peace Project includes John Brown, License to Kill and Masters of War.
More info at mariamuldaur.com
Thanks to Michael Tearson for the tip

Maria Muldaur: Live in Concert CD & DVDadded to Dylan Cover Albums

2008-05-12T01:53:00.005-04:00

Added to both the VOCALS & VIDEO pages of Dylan Cover Albums is Maria Muldaur's Live in Concert. The newly released CD includes live performances of all 12 Dylan covers from Maria's 2006 CD Heart Of Mine, plus 3 non-Dylan songs. The DVD, available separately, deletes I'll Be Your Baby Tonight and one of the non-Dylan songs.
Tracklist info is from on-line sources, I will confirm and add recording details (if provided) when I have the CD and DVD.
CD: amazon.com | amazon.co.uk | amazon.de
DVD: amazon.com | amazon.co.uk | amazon.de

R.I.P. Eddy Arnold

2008-05-09T00:45:00.001-04:00

Blowin' In The Wind (2:55)
Eddy Arnold
and The Needmore Creek Singers
Folk Song Book
LP: RCA LSP-2811 RE
(1964, US)

Eddy Arnold passed away on Thursday, May 8 at the age of 89.
He was one of the first established country stars to cover Dylan, including Blowin' In The Wind on this 1964 LP of folk songs.
The LP is included in the Collector's Guide to Country Dylan Covers.

Swamp Dylan: New "Roots" & moved

2008-05-08T15:40:00.003-04:00

Roots, the second album by Swamp Dylan has been added to Dylan Cover Albums Vocals pages HERE. The collection has been available since last year in this pre-release form, the finalized album may differ slightly.
The original Swamp Roots album has been moved to the Vocals section - it was previously listed on the Download Albums page - as both albums are now available on CDR from Soweto Productions. The download version is no longer available.
Ordering, audio-streams and more info about both albums at swampdylan.com

New in EPs: Ghosts of Electricity

2008-05-06T13:12:00.005-04:00

Random Bursts Of Noise, a new 5-track/6-song CDR EP by the Long Island, NY band Ghosts of Electricity has been added to Dylan Cover Albums EP pages HERE.
More info at paradiddle.com

The tracklist:
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You / The Wicked Messenger-As I Went Out One Morning / Drifter's Escape / All Along The Watchtower / Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

Free download album from Brazil:Smeke Plays Dylan

2008-05-03T12:08:00.008-04:00

Just discovered and added to the Download Albums page of Dylan Cover Albums is Smeke Plays Dylan, a collection of 11 Dylan covers recorded 2006-07 by (Rafael) Smeke of Brazil.
The album is downloadable from ramonsmeg.blogspot.com as a RAR file. You will need a tool (such as WinRAR) to extract the 11 mp3s and artwork.
Thanks to Manuel Garcia Jara for the tip.

The tracklist:

Farewell Angelina / Simple Twist Of Fate / Blind Willie McTell / Tangled Up In Blue / Like A Rolling Stone / Silvio / Just Like A Woman / Things Have Changed / It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry / Is Your Love In Vain / Idiot Wind

Smeke's earlier album, The (You Shouldn't Be Hearing This) Cover Album, recorded 2001-03, contains five more Dylan covers:
Tangled Up In Blue / Blowin' In The Wind / It's All Over Now, Baby Blue / Simple Twist Of Fate / Masters Of War
Available in the same format and on the same page as above.

German "I'm Not There" covers contest:Top 10 Finalists

2008-05-01T13:16:00.004-04:00

Congratulations to the jury-picked Top 10 Finalists in the German I'm Not There Dylan covers contest. The jury picked the ten finalists from over 200 entries.
The final winner will be chosen by a public vote.
The voting page is now working, but logging-in to MySpace is required... I don't know if that will be changed, they originally announced anyone would be able to vote.

The Top 10 Finalists
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall -- Ad-Rian
I Want You -- Black Rust
Visions Of Johanna -- Dylan Night Band (video)
Don't Think Twice -- Floppy Dee
Don't Think Twice -- Kleinmeister
Just Like A Woman -- Carsten Mentzel
Slow Train -- Moe (aka: Autokraft)
Wagon Wheel -- Onkel Tims Hütte
It Ain't Me Babe -- The Shevettes (video)
Love Sick -- Simp The Dog

First-of-month updates for May 1, 2008

2008-05-01T00:01:00.007-04:00

The Dylan Covers DataBase has been updated,
adding 251 new covers for a new total of 22,157.
Click here to view New Additions Only
46 new images were added.

Dylan Title Tracks
added 20 new items, for a new total of 1,341.
Thanks to Ronald Born, H.P. Bushoff, Dag and Manuel Garcia Jara for this month's Title Tracks additions.

Thanks for all submissions & contributions to the DylanCover.com websites during April.

Artists who had covers added to the DataBase during April 2008:
11th House (2), 4 Q J, Johan Asherton, Back Forty, Joan Baez (2), Jeff Beck Group, William C. Beeley, beforeandafter, Benevento/Russo, Jason Bennett, Berthina, Big Whiskey, Bloodkin, The Bloods, Blueground Undergrass, Billy Bragg, Brothers Past, Bud & Travis, John Butcher, Francis Cabrel, J.J. Cale and Christine Lakeland, CarameloDylan2210, Hayes Carll, Cast Of Clowns (2), The Coal Porters, Bernie Conrads, Sean Costello, Cracker with Jason Isbell, Cubensis (3), Dakota Blonde, Delilah Jones, Neil Diamond, Dog Gone (4), Domino Theory, Dream Syndicate, Wiglaf Droste und das Spardosen-Terzett, Chris Duarte Group, Dylan Night Band, ekoostik Hookah, Drew Emmitt Band, Fire Fox, Jeffrey Foucault, Fried Chicken Tree, Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders, Jerry Garcia Band (2), John & Dick Glueckert (2), God Johnson, The Gourds (2), Grateful Dead (24), Hairy Larry (5), John Wesley Harding and Steve Wynn, Richie Havens, Warren Haynes (2), Jeff Healey Band, Ben Helm, Hexbelt (2), Drew Hollingsworth, Bruce Hornsby (3), Hot Buttered Rum, Steve Howe, The Hunters, The Jacob Sisters, The Jam Bones (3), The Jazz Butcher, Peter Jöback with Eva Dahlgren, JohnnyBazooka, Robert Earl Keen, Brian Kuhlmann, Jimmy LaFave (15), The Last Waltz Ensemble (4), Lazy River, Damien Leith (2), Phil Lesh (3), Justyn Makkadb, Ed Matzenik (3), Manfred Maurenbrecher, Max Creek (2), Maureen McGovern, Fran McKendree, The Meters, mixedone12345, Moods of Ally (2), Wayne Morrison, Mountain, Mud City Ramblers (5), John Mullins, David Munyon with ''Biber'' Herrmann, Wolfgang Niedecken (9), Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Tim O'Brien (2), Of A Revolution, Ollyoscar, Carla Olson & The Textones, Tim Palmieri (2),The Phantom Engineers (2), Pink Floyd, Porter Batiste Stoltz (2), The Radiators (6), Rainravens (3), Ratdog (6), Klaus Renft Combo, River Town Revival (2), robertzim, The Roots, Beth Rowley, RPWL, Doug Sahm and the Last Real Texas Blues Band, Schottenhaml, Seldom Scene (2), Skipjack, Eddie Skuller, Splintered Sunlight (3), Anna Stadling & Idde Schultz, Steveaux (6), Jay Stevens & Gil Grant, Brian Stoltz, Superunloader, TDJ, Terrapin Flyer, The Sky About to Rain (2), Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Soul Stew Revival, Turbine, Txarango (2), Hannes Wader, The Waifs, Bob Walkenhorst (6), Wanee Family Jam, Was (Not Was), Derek Webb & Sandra McCracken, Why Not, Widespread Panic, Yonder Mountain String Band, Zero (3), Zimming Point (2), The Zone

"Noel Harrison" reissued on CD

2008-04-29T12:21:00.004-04:00

Noel Harrison's 1965 self-titled album, with it's four Dylan covers (Baby Blue, Love Minus Zero, Mr. Tambourine Man, and To Ramona,) has been reissued on CD by Rev-Ola in the UK.
Available from: amazon.com | amazon.co.uk | amazon.de
Thanks to "pirate" for the tip

New cover: Maureen McGovern

2008-04-28T17:27:00.003-04:00

Maureen McGovern covers The Times They Are A-Changin' on her new album A Long and Winding Road.
More info at PS Classics.
Thanks to Michael Tearson for the tip

How Many Roads added to Dylan Cover Albums

2008-04-28T00:06:00.004-04:00

From Broadway To The Milky Way by the German Band How Many Roads has been added to Dylan Cover Albums HERE.
More info at the band's website or MySpace page.
Please advise if you know of any on-line retailers that sell this CD.
Thanks to How Many Roads,
and thanks to Dirk Krah for providing CD details

The tracklist:
This Wheel’s on Fire / Positively 4th Street / Blowin’ In The Wind / Things Have Changed / License To Kill / Absolutely Sweet Marie / I'll Be Your Baby Tonight / I Want You / Love Sick / Nobody 'Cept You / Blind Willie McTell / Sugar Baby / Mighty Quinn / Thank You Bob (original song)

New cover: Derek Webb & Sandra McCracken

2008-04-25T10:19:00.002-04:00

Derek Webb & Sandra McCracken cover If Not For You on their new release Ampersand EP, the first official release by the husband & wife duo. The 6-track EP has been released on CD and digitally.
Track available from amazonmp3

More new music from Zimming Point

2008-04-24T10:52:00.004-04:00

Zimming Point has added early mixes of Seeing The Real You At Last and the unreleased Dylan-Helena Springs song Stop Now to their MySpace player.
Final mixes of the tracks will eventually be available for download at zimmingpoint.com.

The Byrds Play Dylan... again

2008-04-23T12:05:00.004-04:00

The new The Byrds Play Dylan reissue has now been added to Dylan Cover Albums HERE. This latest version is part of the Sony BMG "Collections" series. The CD has new artwork and reverts to the 13 tracks of the original LP, in the sequence of previous UK releases. It is already available in the UK and as an import in the US, and is due for release in Germany on May 2nd. The CD is issued by Sony BMG, labeled as "Made in the EU," and is a no-frills release, nothing more than the tracklist & song credits is provided.
The CD has also been released in Australia.
As on the 2001/2002 UK & US expanded reissues, the Easy Rider version of It's All Over Now, Baby Blue has been replaced by the 1965 version first released on the 1996 expanded/remastered Turn! Turn! Turn!.
Available from: amazon.com | amazon.co.uk | amazon.de
Thanks to Dirk Krah for the tip

New cover: Beth Rowley

2008-04-21T00:49:00.002-04:00

British singer Beth Rowley covers I Shall Be Released on her upcoming debut CD Little Dreamer, due for release in the UK on May 19.
An audio sample & more info at bethrowley.com.
Available from: amazon.co.uk
Thanks to Tony King for the tip

Miscellaneous ramblings...

2008-04-17T17:08:00.008-04:00

• Bernie Conrads (of Bernie's Autobahn Band) performs a German Translation of Simple Twist of Fate (as Schicksal) on his new CD Irgendwo Dahinten. Available from: amazon.de
Thanks to Dirk Krah for the tip

• US singer/songwriter Jack Williams includes Tomorrow Is A Long Time on Don't Let Go, his new all-covers album.
More info at jackwilliamsmusic.com

• German band Moods of Ally offers two listen-only Dylan covers on their MySpace page, One Too Many Mornings and Property Of Jesus.
Thanks to Detta for the tip.

• Caroline Doctorow's cover of I Want You, from her 2003 CD Carmel Valley Ride, can be heard on her MySpace page.
Thanks to Detta for the tip.

• From all reports I've seen, the recent 30th Anniversary Celebration DVD for sale from European sellers is a poor quality, abridged version of the official release, with many of the major performances missing. I'm undecided if it should be added to the Video page.

• In the pipeline:
New Dylan Cover Albums that have been announced and or rumored and will be added as soon as they are available:
• From Broadway to the Milky Way by How Many Roads (Germany - hope to have soon)
• In The Well by Kokomo (New Zealand - has been delayed several times, hopefully it will be available soon)
• The Phantom Engineers (Ireland - release unknown)

• R.I.P. - the passing of two performers who have covered Dylan:
• Danny Federici, of Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band, covered Knockin' On Heaven's Door on his 2005 Jazz CD Out Of A Dream.
• Bluesman Sean Costello, who covered Obviously 5 Believers on the Blues On Blonde On Blonde album, and also Simple Twist Of Fate on his 2005 eponymous CD.

Minor site updates...

2008-04-16T13:33:00.002-04:00

• I have added a list of Dylan Cover Albums and other CDs with 3 or more Dylan covers to the Dylan Covers at CD Baby page.
• The Not Bob page (a list of recordings with Dylan-like titles that are NOT Dylan covers) has been updated with many new additions
Thanks to HP Bushoff & Ronald Born for their submissions

Dylan Night Band: May tour in Germany

2008-04-16T13:25:00.004-04:00

The Dylan Night Band has posted it's May tour schedule in the Forum. If you're near any of their tour stops, check them out.
More info at dylan-night.de

New music from Zimming Point

2008-04-16T10:09:00.002-04:00

Zimming Point has a new recording of Day Of The Locusts available for download at zimmingpoint.com.
The track can also be heard on their MySpace page, along with a demo of Sugar Baby.

J.M. Baule additions

2008-04-13T16:25:00.010-04:00

Two items have been added to the J.M. Baule section in the Translations pages of Dylan Cover Albums HERE.
Vinga! Bonga! is a 2006 CDR of songs in Catalán, including 3 Dylan translations of Blind Willie McTell, All Along The Watchtower, and The Man In Me. The majority of J.M.'s other Dylan covers are Castellano translations. With 3 Dylan songs this album wouldn't normally be listed on the main pages, but I've included it with J.M.'s four Dylan collections for those interested.
Also added is a 6-track CDR of Out-Takes from J.M.'s fourth Dylan album, Entre Dylan y yo. Included are Spanish versions of Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You, Just Like A Woman (in Catalán,) Tomorrow Is A Long Time, To Be Alone With You, Blind Willie McTell (Castellano version,) and Make You Feel My Love (Flute version.)
To inquire about these or any of J.M. Baule's recordings, use the "contacta" link on his website or from his MySpace page.

From the DylanCover.com collection:Marilyn Michaels

2008-04-12T02:10:00.006-04:00

The Times They Are A-Changin' (2:37)
Marilyn Michaels
Times They Are A-Changin'
LP: ABC 613 (1967, US)

Marilyn Michaels is best known as an impressionist, and was a familiar face on TV talk shows and game shows. When this LP appeared in 1967, I would think many assumed the songs within were done in some of her many voices, but Marilyn sings in her own voice, no female-Dylan impression, nor her famous Barbra Streisand impersonation. Times is a typical mid-'60s pop production, with orchestra and a vocal chorus backing.
This LP is displayed twice at DylanCover.com: in Title Tracks, and in the Celebrities Collector's Guide.

Joel Shawn & JP Walker added to Dylan Cover Albums

2008-04-10T15:09:00.004-04:00

You Know Something's Happening Here, a self-made CDR by the Japan-based duo Joel Shawn & J.P. Walker has been added to Dylan Cover Albums HERE. The 16 mostly acoustic tracks were recorded in Ibaraki Japan, Winter & Spring 2006. Joel and J.P. (J and J on MySpace) are members of the band Guru Monkey.
It's a nice, mostly mellow collection with a few rarely covered songs.
This CDR is available directly from the artists. You can listen to a few tracks, get more info and contact the band on their MySpace page (MySpace account required to use their messaging service.)
Thanks to Joel & J.P.

The tracklist:
On The Road Again / Positively 4th Street / Things Have Changed / Highway 61 Revisited / I and I / 4th Time Around / If You See Her Say Hello / You Ain't Goin' Nowhere / Blind Willie McTell / Temporary Like Achilles / Shelter From The Storm / One More Night / Ballad Of Hollis Brown / Tomorrow Is A Long Time / Ballad Of A Thin Man / Lay Down Your Weary Tune

The Phantom Engineers add the 2 "Trains"

2008-04-09T13:04:00.003-04:00

The Phantom Engineers from Ireland have added listen-only covers of Slow Train and It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry to the audio-player on their MySpace page. Their three previous tracks are still available (and downloadable to MySpace users.)
The band has a CD in the works, more info will be posted when available.