December
29, 2003 NATHANIEL
STREET WEST DOES DYLAN 23-year-old
singer/songwriter/guitarist Nathaniel
Street West's new release "Light Out For the Territory" includes
renditions
of Visions of Johanna
and Motorpsycho Nightmare.
Street West is signed to Puffin Records, and there is a great
web
site dedicated to him at http://www.nathanielstreetwest.com.
The website has more information and song clips from the album,
including
the two Dylan songs. “Street West included these
two Dylan songs
because Dylan has been his primary musical influence since he was a
baby
and he intended this album to be a tribute to Dylan but not a cover
album.
"Light Out For the Territory" is a response (through Mark Twain) to the
line from Dylan's song Union Sundown: From
Broadway
to the Milky Way, That's a lot of territory indeed.”............Available
from:...amazon.com December
28, 2003 MP3s
at NUGS.NET Dave Matthews &
Friends with Emmylou Harris
/ Oh, Sister / 12/16/03 /
http://nugs.net/dave/031216_mp3.asp........Thanks
to Thomas Groschwald
Please
note: Links are to the webpages where these tracks are
available
- NO audio files are linked directly or are hosted
at DYLAN
COVER
ALBUMS
Please
note: Links are to the webpages where these tracks are
available
- NO audio files are linked directly or are hosted
at DYLAN
COVER
ALBUMS
December
11, 2003 GERRY
DID FRANKIE LEE & JUDAS PRIEST! Billboard magazine is
reporting that the final
collaboration of Jerry
Garcia and David Grisman,
due to be released March 23, 2004 will include a cover of The
Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest.
To my knowledge,
this will be the first commercially released English-language cover of
the song. December
11, 2003 MP3s Four covers by Dane
& Steve are
available from their webpage:
http://a.domaindlx.com/holly/ If You See Her,
Say Hello /
Tombstone Blues / Blind Willie McTell
/ I Don't
Believe You December
3, 2003 J.W.
SCHOLTE & BAND
Added in VOCALS recently
was a new CD from The Netherlands by J.W.
Scholte & Band. Just Like A
Woman (Scholte sings Dylan) includes a few rarely
covered songs
among it's 11 tracks, including Going, Going, Gone
and
Dirge.
IMHO, the standout track on the CD is Idiot Wind.
All
tracks are performed in English. The CD is nicely presented
in a
tri-fold digipack with photos of the performers in the studio and
others,
and full credits. More info and contact
information can be found
on the Dutch-language COPYRIGHT
JOKE website. US buyers
can order the CD by mailing
$20 in cash. Contact Copyright Joke for
instructions.
(I have been told ordering instructions will also be added to their
website.) Thanks to Joke Scholte (and
to Anton Bohnen for telling me of the CD)
November
27, 2003 YET
ANOTHER NEW COVER • “Ruf
& Echo,” the new 3 CD collection
by Austrian André
Heller
(a collection of old songs, new songs and old songs in new versions,
with
some famous guests) includes both the old version of Für
immer jung (Forever
Young),
a duet version with
Wolfgang Ambros (from
Heller's 1983 LP
“Stimmenhören”,) plus a new
English/Austrian
version of the song featuring The Walkabouts.........Thanks
to Dirk Krah for the tip Available from:...amazon.de
November 21, 2003
MORE
NEW COVERS • Jazz vocalist Barbara
Sfraga covers Every
Grain Of Sand,
accompanied only by an acoustic bass, on her CD “Under The
Moon”
• The Paul James
Band includes
three Dylan covers on
their new CD “La Vie en Bleu”: Highway 61,
Like a Rolling Stone
and It's All Over Now Baby Blue.Available
from: http://pauljamesband.com/ November
20, 2003 NEW
DVDs WITH COVERS Two new DVDs in the stores
include live Dylan
covers: • The Dave Matthews
Band's “The
Central Park Concert” includes
yet another live version of All Along The Watchtower.
November
18, 2003 NEW
COVERS........Thanks
to Dirk Krah for the tips • A jazz cover of Blowin'
In The Wind
on Peter Saltzman's
CD "Things Better Left Said" Available
from: amazon.com • The Cowboy
Junkies' new live CD,
"In the Time Before
Llamas", includes a 1990 or 92 live version of If
You Gotta Go,
Go Now. Available from: amazon.com...or...amazon.co.uk...or...amazon.de • A
new German cover of Man Gave
Names To All The Animals (Der
Mensch fand Namen für ein jedes Tier), is
on Gerhard
Schöne's new CD "Fremde
Federn": Available from:
amazon.de November
18, 2003 MP3s........Thanks
to Dirk Krah for the tips Timesbold
/ Masters of War / http://www.trustmerecords.com/multimedia.htm Rio Reiser
/ I Want You / http://www.digitaldo.org/rio/frames/middle2.html Devilish Doubledylans
/ Fast wie Tom Gnawa's Blues (Just
like Tom Thumb's Blues) / http://www.devilishdoubledylans.com/music.html
Please
note: Links are to the webpages where these tracks are
available
- NO audio files are linked directly or are hosted
at DYLAN
COVER
ALBUMS
November
11, 2003 MICHEL
MONTECROSSA'S MICHEL & BOB DYLAN FEST 2003
Michel
Montecrossa
has released a 3rd annual boxset recorded at his 2003 “Michel
& Bob
Dylan Fest.” The box includes 5 CDs and a DVD of
Michel Montecrossa's
21st century overground musical “Living The
Experience.” The Bob Dylan
(& Dylan related) songs
performed by Michel & band: Kingsport Town, Where
Teardrops Fall,
What Good Am I?, Disease Of Conceit, What Was It You Wanted?, Shooting
Star, Seeing The Real You At Last, Clean-Cut Kid, Something's Burning
Baby,
You Wanna Ramble, They Killed Him, Driftin' Too Far From Shore,
Precious
Memories, Maybe Someday, Got My Mind Made Up, Under Your Spell, Sally
Sue
Brown, Death Is Not The End, Had A Dream About You, Baby, Ugliest Girl
In The World, Ninety Miles An Hour (Down A Dead End Street), 'Cross The
Green Mountain, Slow Train, Minstrel Boy, It Hurts Me Too, Corrina,
Corrina,
Fur Slippers, Let's Keep It Between Us, Cold Irons Bound, Wigwam,
Alberta
#1&2, All The Tired Horses, Early Mornin' Rain, Little Sadie,
Belle
Isle, Living The Blues, Woogie Boogie, Someone's Got A Hold On My
Heart,
When I Paint My Masterpiece, You Ain't Goin' Nowhere, Down In The Flood
(Crash On The Levee), Carribean Wind, Up To Me, I Wanna Be Your Lover,
Tears Of Rage, One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below), Positively 4th
Street,
George Jackson, Rita May, Watching The River Flow. Also
included is a cover of Robbie Robertsons' Broken Arrow,
48 original
Montecrossa songs and 3 Montecrossa videos.
November
11, 2003 RANDOM
LINK I have added a "Random
Link" button to the
MAIN
PAGE, just below the MAIN
MENU. Pressing
the button will take you to one of the 110+ pages at DYLAN
COVER ALBUMS or DYLAN TITLE
TRACKS. November
8, 2003 THE
JEEVAS COVER DYLAN The UK band The
Jeevas cover
Masters Of War
on their newest CD "Cowboys and Indians"
November
5, 2003 I.S.O. An ongoing project of mine is to collect at least one cover of
every
Bob song (from his regular albums.) These are the songs I still need.
Any
leads, tips, etc. appreciated, even home/non-commercial recordings. Watered Down Love; Trouble; Neighborhood Bully;
10,000 Men; Tweedle
Dee and Tweedle Dum; Bye and Bye; Cry Awhile I know a few of them have been done, but they're difficult to
find. November
5, 2003 BARB
JUNGR NOW AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON-UK & DE Barb Jungr's
new album, “Waterloo Sunset,” including two more
Dylan covers: Like
A Rolling Stone and High Water (For
Charlie Patton), is
now available from: amazon.co.uk...or...amazon.de November
1, 2003 NEW
PAGE: NOT BOB I have added a new page of
"Not Bob Songs":
songs with the same titles as Dylan songs. Click HERE
to check it out. Additions welcome. Permanent access through
the OTHER
STUFF page or the NOT
FOREVER YOUNG page. October
31, 2003 DIXIE
CHICKS DO DYLAN The Dixie Chicks'
upcoming
“Top Of The World Tour” live double CD includes
their cover of Mississippi.
To be released November 24/25 (UK/US)
October
31, 2003 ALBERT
LEE REISSUED Albert Lee's 1970
Dylan covers are included on a new anthology: “Thats All
Right Mama: The
County Fever & Black Claw Sessions.” The
Dylan covers are Too
Much Of Nothing, Lay Lady Lay, Tears Of Rage and
Tonight
I'll Be Staying Here With You. These tracks were
recorded ca.
1970, some released as singles, others were unreleased until an earlier
CD collection. Tears Of Rage/Too Much Of Nothing was
released
as a single credited to Country Fever. Already released in Europe, due
11/18 in US........amazon.com...or...amazon.co.uk...or...amazon.de October
31, 2003 COVERS-OF-THE-MONTH
UPDATED Olof has updated the
Covers-of-the-month page
at IT AIN'T ME BABE, this
month featuring Just
Like A Woman: http://www.bjorner.com/coversofthemonth.htm October
14, 2003 GUESTBOOK:
GOING, GOING, GONE Because the provider is
discontinuing their
free service, I am deleting my GUESTBOOK.
It
received only a few entries per month, so it won't be
replaced.
Thanks to all who have left messages these past few years.
Any future
comments can be sent via E-MAIL
October
7, 2003 CASSANDRA DOES
BOB, AGAIN Cassandra Wilson,
who covered Shelter From The Storm
on her 2002 CD “Belly
Of The Sun,” includes another Dylan song on her new CD
“Glamoured”: Lay
Lady Lay........Available
from:...amazon.com...or...amazon.co.uk...or...amazon.de...or...amazon.ca October
7, 2003 JONI
DOES BOB Joni Mitchell's new
boxset, “The Complete Geffen Recordings,” includes
a previously unreleased
demo recording of It's All Over Now, Baby Blue.
October
7, 2003 AL
DIESAN BONUS TRACK Al Diesan's newest
bonus track is I and I. Listen
at: http://www.al-diesan.it/html/bonustrack.eng.htm........Thanks
to Al October
4, 2003 BARB
JUNGR - NEW ARTWORK Barb Jungr's
Dylan album, EVERY GRAIN OF
SAND, has been re-released with new artwork........Thanks
to John Morrison for confirming September
29, 2003 BARB
DOES DYLAN, AGAIN Barb Jungr's new album,
“Waterloo Sunset,”
includes two more Dylan covers: Like A Rolling Stone
and High
Water (For Charlie Patton). More info at:
http://www.jungr.com.
The CD is scheduled for release on November 3.......Thanks
to Dan for the tip September
26, 2003 ROBERT
PALMER, R.I.P. September
23, 2003 NEIL
DOES DYLAN No, not Neil Young... Bob's
labelmate at Columbia:
Neil
Diamond.
Neil's upcoming all-live boxset
“Stages” includes a 1978 performance of Lay
Lady Lay. The
6-disc set includes a 2-CD complete Las Vegas concert from 12/27/02, 2
CDs of various live performances 1970-2001, 1 disc of live Christmas
songs,
and a DVD of highlights from a 2002 Dublin show plus a backstage
documentary.
September
22, 2003 COMING
SOON - NOW ADDED HERE The Danish Group Sørensens
Psykedeliske Sumprock Cirkus
has a 2nd CDR
available, titled “Psychedelic
Buddha.” The 2003 self-released
CD-R has a eunning time of 36:56. More info to be added soon.
To
order or trade contact: sumprock@yahoo.dk Tracklist: Tonight
I'll Be Staying Here
With You - Quinn The Eskimo - Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Eternal Circle
- Forever Young - Blowin' In The Wind - Simple Twist Of Fate - One More
Night - This Wheel's On Fire - Wallflower - Every Grain of Sand. Their first CDR, 1999's
“A Tribute to Bob
Dylan,” is listed HERE September
22, 2003 COMING
OCTOBER 23 Update:
Now added -HERE A new title for the SHARED
pages will be released by Artmuse Records on October 23.
“Shakey
Zimmerman” by Pat
Nevins,
backed by a veteran San Francisco Bay group of musicians who are known
in the Grateful Dead circles, includes 5 songs each by Bob Dylan and
Neil
Young. Dylan songs: You're
Gonna Make Me
Lonesome When You Go - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You - Went To
See The Gypsy - Things Have Changed - I Threw It All Away Neil Young songs: Lookout
Joe - Everybody's
Alone - The Last Trip To Tulsa - Ambulance Blues - (When You're On) The
Losing End More info will be available
next month. September
22, 2003 NEW COVER A cover of Honest
With Me
is available on a limited edition German concert recording by Steve
Wynn (Dream
Syndicate.) The album is
available by mail order only, limited to 1000 copies. More info at: http://www.bluerose-records.de/main.asp?mode=detail&ID=10374....Thanks
to Dirk Krah for the link September
22, 2003 NEW
COVER Afan, a Celtic
group from Arizona has covered I Dreamed I Saw St.
Augustine
on their first CD, “Queen of the Rushes” Available from CDBABY
or the AFAN
WEBSITE September
22, 2003 MEAT
LOAF NOT 100% Meat Loaf's cover
of Forever Young shows as 10+
minutes on some listings...
however those 10 minutes also include a "hidden track" of Mercury
Blues. The actual time of FY
is about 5:05,
followed by a long silence, and then 3:45 of Mercury
Blues.
This applies to the already released European versions of his album
“Couldn't
Have Said It Better.” The American CD will be
released tomorrow (9/23)
and it's unknown if the US CD will be the same. September
12, 2003 JOHNNY
CASH, R.I.P. September
8, 2003 WARREN
ZEVON, R.I.P. September
4, 2003 EVERYBODY
GOTTA COVER GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY Check out my list
of Gotta Serve
Somebody covers at amazon.com:
CLICK
HERE September
4, 2003 JEFF
BUCKLEY DID DYLAN Released this week was Jeff
Buckley's 2-Cd
"Live at Sin-é" with several Dylan covers and a bonus
DVD.
Read more HERE Available from:...amazon.com...or...amazon.ca
August 25, 2003
CHER...
37 YEARS LATER Cher's "Live: The Farewell
Tour" Limited edition
CD, to be released tomorrow (8/26) in the U.S. (9/1 in U.K.,) includes
a live version of All I Really Want To Do,
her first solo
hit record in 1965. Available from:...amazon.com...or...amazon.co.uk...or...amazon.de...or...amazon.ca August
25, 2003 W.Z.,
K.O.H.D. Also to be released
tomorrow in the U.S. (9/15
in Europe) is Warren Zevon's "The Wind," including his recording of Knockin'
On Heaven's Door.
August
25, 2003 SOBIG.F
VIRUS ALERT Friday and today I have
been deluged with
e-mails carrying the Sobig.F virus. Some of these e-mails
appear
to be from here (@dylancoveralbums.com) as well as other Dylan-related
addresses, but these are spoofed. The virus uses addresses
from the
infected computer's address book to send fake e-mails. Do not
open
any e-mails with attachments and subjects like "approved" or "my
details"
or others as listed in the description at: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sobig.f@mm.html August
7, 2003 TITLE
TRACKS RULES... WHAT RULES?! You may have noticed I've
been very lax regarding
the rules for the TITLE TRACKS
pages. I've basically been adding anything with a Dylan title
on
the front of the sleeve. On the new additions list,
if I list
only the title than it's the lead and/or A-side title. If I
note
"B-side," it's the secondary side of a single. If I
note "EP
Track" it's not the lead track.
August
5, 2003 MASKED
& ANONYMOUS Drove 50 miles to see
"Masked & Anonymous"
yesterday. There are enough reviews around the web that I
won't go
into detail here, but I do think the mainstream critics are being too
harsh.
It's not a great movie, but by no means the worst, either.
Bobcats
will enjoy it... it's probably a prerequisite! The music is
great
and Bob is... well, Bob! Much more interesting and
enjoyable
than "Hearts Of Fire." There are more covers than on the CD
hidden
in the soundtrack, I saw the GOLDEN
GATE STRINGS listed in the credits.
Looking forward to
getting the DVD.
August
5, 2003 MASKED
& ANONYMOUS #2 Speaking of "Masked
& Anonymous," the
soundtrack is being issued on vinyl by Classic Records. See: http://classicrecords.com
July 23,
2003 BITW SLEEVES
WANTED H.P. Bushoff is searching
for a few Blowin'
In The Wind singles with
picture-sleeves... look HERE
and contact him if you can help with his quest.
July
23, 2003 HOOCH
GANG VOL. 2 Added to VOCALS is SHELTER
FROM THE STORM, a 2nd
volume of Bob covers from
Austria's Hooch Gang.
The album, recorded live late last year, is highly
recommended. Most
of the songs are from the 70s or later, including Standing
In
The Doorway and Sugar Baby,
and the rarely-covered
Mozambique.
One non-Dylan track is Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground,
the Willie Nelson song that Bob himself covered on the B-side of a
single.
The only '60s songs are Baby Blue
and two versions of
Just
Like A Woman, one of which is a great instrumental
that sounds
like a lost Santo & Johnny track. Visit the HOOCH
GANG WEBSITE(in
German.)......Thanks
to Hooch Gang and Alfred Reitinger; and to Joseph
Pohlschneider
for the tip
July
20, 2003
CHILLIN
LIKE DYLAN Added in VOCALS:
CHILLIN
LIKE DYLAN by Spirits
in the Rock, a
Hawaii-based band. The
CD-R has 9 tracks, just under 40 minutes. Supplied in a slimline case with only the cover art &
a label,
not even a track list. Sound clips & ordering
at: CD
Baby
July
20, 2003 MORE
DYLAN COVERS AT CD BABY Here are some other albums
with Dylan covers
available at CD BABY. Some
have sound clips available........Thanks
to Dirk Krah for some of these links
Michael
Bannett
Circle Game
(a collection of 'kid-friendly'
folksongs)
July
16, 2003 TITLE
TRACKS POLICY CHANGE Due to overwhelming popular
demand..
well, a few of you!... I will soon begin adding
picture-sleeves with
TRANSLATED
TITLES to the TITLE
TRACKS pages. I'm undecided how I will
do it. I
don't think I should mix the translated titles with the regular
sleeves.
Any suggestions will be appreciated. The same rules will
apply: The
Dylan title must appear on the sleeve so it will be legible on the
webpage.
The Dylan title doesn't have to be the "A" side. It makes no
difference
if the song itself is translated, or is the regular English
version
with only the title translated in the local language. If you
would
like to submit scans, please attach only 1 scan per e-mail,
to avoid
overtaxing my mailbox. And please provide the discographical
info:
Artist, label & catalog number, country of issue, and
year of
release (if known.)
July
8, 2003 PETER
MALICK & NORAH JONES COVER DYLAN Released today is "New York
City," the mini-album
by The Peter Malick
Group featuring Norah
Jones. The
30:21 CD includes a cover
of Bob's Heart Of Mine. The 6
tracks (+ a radio edit)
were recorded before Norah's Grammy-winning album.
July
7, 2003 AL
DIESAN BONUS TRACK Al Diesan's newest
bonus track is Train A-Travelin'.
Listen at: http://www.al-diesan.it/html/bonustrack.eng.htm........Thanks
to Al July
7, 2003 THE
WALKABOUTS I have been informed that
The Walkabout's
Bringing
It All Back Home CDR is available
via the members of the
Walkabouts
Yahoo group. (membership
required).....Thanks
to Gerhard Frese July
4, 2003 MP3:
Nick
Drake / Tomorrow
Is A Long Time / http://212.209.231.144/nickdrake/mulistenchr.asp July
2, 2003 MP3:
Wild
Whiskey Boys / (It
Takes...)Train
To Cry / http://www.digitalschoolbus.com/wildwhiskeyboys/ July
2, 2003 There
are now over 1,200
records illustrated throughout DYLAN
COVER
ALBUMS and DYLAN TITLE
TRACKS. July
1, 2003 CHRIS
SMITHER DOES DYLAN “Train
Home,” the new album by Chris
Smither to be released
July 22, includes a
cover of Desolation Row.
June
26, 2003 MASKED
& ANONYMOUS SOUNDTRACK The tracklist for the
“Masked & Anonymous”
sountrack has been revealed, and it's receiving a lot of
criticism
on the various Dylan newsgroups & forums for it's lack of Bob
content,
but it's selection of covers should give it a warmer reception
here.
There will be regular edition and a limited edition, the limited
edition
digipack adds a bonus sampler of the upcoming SACD hybrid
reissues.
The bonus disc is unrelated to the movie, as are several of the tracks
on the soundtrack itself! (as compared to the screened versions of the
film.) On the soundtrack CD: • There are 4
songs by Bob: Down In The
Flood, Diamond Joe, Dixie and Cold Irons Bound. • Some of the
covers are familiar: Gotta
Serve Somebody by Shirley Caesar,
Like
A Rolling Stone by Articolo 31 • Two Dead/Garcia
covers,
unknown if different than the common ones: It's All Over Now,
Baby Blue
by Grateful Dead and Jerry's Señor • Of the 6
remaining covers, some have been
available before and some are new: My Back Pages
by Magokoro
Brothers (a Japanese
duo); Most Of
The Time by Sweden's Sophie
Zelmani;
On
A Night Like This by Los
Lobos;
One
More Cup Of Coffee by Sertab
Erener
(see 5/30 news item); Non Dirle Che Non E' Cosi' (If You See
Her, Say
Hello,) an Italian translation by Francesco
De Gregori, and City
Of Gold, the unreleased
Dylan song from the upcoming Dixie
Hummingbirds
album.
June
26, 2003 COVERS-OF-THE-MONTH
UPDATED Olof has updated the
Covers-of-the-month page
at IT AIN'T ME BABE with
his summer installment:
http://www.bjorner.com/coversofthemonth.htm June
26, 2003 KURT'S
MUSIC Several new covers
available on "Kurt's Music"
page at: http://www.angelfire.com/folk/kurtmusic/.
Downloads are available for a limited time and are changed
occasionally.
Currently available: Blind Willie McTell,
Things Have Changed,
If You See Her, Say Hello, Señor (Tales of Yankee
Power),
and
You
Ain't Going Nowhere June
26, 2003 BROTHERS
FOUR + ASSOCIATION REISSUES Collector's Choice Music
has reissued The
Brothers Four albums
“Sing Of Our Times” (1964)
and “Honey Wind Blows” (1965) on 1 CD (+ a bonus
track.) The 2 albums
contain 3 Dylan covers: Long Ago, Far Away
and Tomorrow
Is a Long Time on the 1st album and Mr.
Tambourine Man
on the 2nd. Available exclusively from: http://www.ccmusic.com/item.cfm?itemid=CCM03972 Also reissued: The
Association's “Live”
album, with their live One Too Many Mornings: http://www.ccmusic.com/item.cfm?itemid=CCM03842 June
21, 2003 STEIN
REGN CD The Norwegian newspaper
Aftenposten reports
that Stein Regn,
the 1981 Dylan
cover album by Jan
Erik Vold, Kåre Virud
& Telemark Blueslagwill
be reissued on CD sometime this fall. Norwegian-language
story HERE......Thanks
to Lars M. Banke
June 12, 2003
MYSABS#3
REDUCED AT AMAZON.COM The cost of May
Your Song Always Be Sung - Vol. 3
has been reduced at amazon.com.
See table above.
June 7, 2003 TRIBUTE
TO THE BAND Flying
Dogs, a project of The
Beards' Emanuele Marchiori
and Andrea Garbo, have released a new CD “Tribute To The
Band.” Included
is Tears Of Rage. For more info
visit THE
BEARDS WEBSITE.
See The Beards' Dylan tribute EP HERE June
7, 2003 BOB
DOES BOB Visit Al
Diesan's site to listen
to a rare 1986 Bob
Dylan performance of When The Night Comes Falling
From The Sky.
CLICK
HERE June
6, 2003 ZWAN
DOES DYLAN Zwan,
the new band that includes former Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan
&
Jimmy Chamberlin, has included a cover of the “Planet
Waves” outtake Nobody
'Cept You on their “Lyric” UK
CD-single. The track is a
live, solo acoustic version performed by guitarist David Pajo.
June
3, 2003 MYSABS#3
AT AMAZON May Your Song
Always Be Sung - Vol. 3
is
now available at amazon.com
and amazon.co.uk.
See table above.
May 30, 2003 MYSABS#3
ON VINYL A limited
edition (1,000 copies) 3-LP vinyl edition will be available beginning
June
30. Album
webpage at BMG May
30, 2003 DYLAN
COVER FROM TURKEY Turkish singer Sertab
Erener includes a cover
of One More Cup of Coffee on
her Everyway
That I Can CD-single. Available from:...amazon.de May
29, 2003 ZIMMERMEN
RELEASE THEIR 3RD ALBUM Oxford, UK band Zimmermen
have released LIKE JUDAS
OF OLD. More info about the band and
ordering available
at: http://www.zimmermen.com/ May
28, 2003 MAY
YOUR SONG ALWAYS BE SUNG VOL. 3 MAY
YOUR SONG ALWAYS BE SUNG, VOL. 3 has
now been released.
The new double-CD available from amazon.de
(see table above.) It is also available for
pre-order from
Tower Records US & UK, release date June 2: US:
http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=2814343
• UK: http://uk.towerrecords.com/product.asp?pfid=2814343 May
28, 2003 WEBHOST
PROBLEMS UPDATE My webhost “has
been experiencing a severe
Denial of Service (DOS) attack since last week, resulting in slowness
and,
in some cases, the unavailability of HostSave's website and mail
services...
Most website and mail performance issues have been stabilized by
network
upgrades implemented by our engineering team. The changes made to the
network
continue to absorb most of the traffic generated by the attack;
however,
you may still experience periodic slowness and brief downtime until the
attack is eliminated at its source.” May
22, 2003 MP3s • Several MP3s
available on "Kurt's Music"
page at: http://www.angelfire.com/folk/kurtmusic/.
New covers are added occasionally......Thanks
to Jean • Avril Lavigne'sKnockin'
On Heaven's Door is available at: http://www.highfiber.org/.
Free registration is required. • German artist Schabuwan
offers over 20 Dylan cover mp3s on his website at: http://schabuwan.de/index2.htm.
Click
"SchabuMusik", then "Neues" (128 kbps) and "Noch Alteres" (56
kbps) May
22, 2003 WEBHOST
PROBLEMS Problems
accessing DYLAN
COVER ALBUMS
on Tuesday
were the result of a Denial Of Service attack against the webhost
company
that I am using. They report that everything is back to
normal,
and steps have been taken to minimize any further problems. May
21, 2003 TOKYO
BOB Added a couple of days ago
was THE
MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, a Japanese CD
by Tokyo
Bob with Never Mending Tour Band.
The CD includes mostly Bob covers plus a few traditionals or
Bob-related
songs. A track by Tokyo Bob appears on the upcoming
MAY
YOUR SONG ALWAYS BE SUNG-VOL. 3. More
info at:www.big-pink.com/tokyobobdylan/english/index.html.....Thanks
to Tokyo Bob May
21, 2003 THE
BOB DYLAN SONG BOOK Added to the site today is THE
BOB DYLAN SONG BOOK, a tribute CD
released last year by
the UK label Klone, that specializes in tribute CDs. No
artist is
credited, except for a musician listing in the fine print.
Therefore
I have listed the CD at the end of the VOCALS
section.
Nothing too special on this one, just 10 of Bob's best
performed
in familiar style, the singer is similar to but not an exact
"klone"
of Bob. I have no on-line source
for this CD.
The label's website is www.kloneuk.com,
but several attempts to e-mail them have received no response, and many
of the site's links don't work. An order from another UK
online seller
has been backordered for over a month. The CD has been
available
at shops in Germany. Good luck! .....Thanks
to Dirk Krah May
15, 2003 BASEMENT
NOISE Added to the site today is BASEMENT
NOISE by The Yoricks.
The self-released CD-R is a tribute to “The Basement
Tapes.” Included
are Apple Suckling Tree, Money Blues
and Yeah!
Heavy and a Bottle of Bread, all first-time covers
on DYLAN
COVER ALBUMS......Thanks
to Erebus Yorick May
13, 2003 POSITIVELY
12th & K
I recently
heard the upcoming POSITIVELY
12th & K CD. This
album, drawn from 2 tribute
shows by a group of Sacramento, CA artists, is excellent. Sal
Valentino, leader of
The Beau Brummels in
the '60s and later Stoneground, makes his first recordings in over 25
years.
Also featured are folk/blues phenom Jackie
Greene who released his
debut album just last
year. Greene's band functions as house band on many of the
tracks.
Other performers include Sherman
Baker, Lew
Fratis, Billy Harper Jr. and
Mick Martin, who turns
in a blistering Lonesome
Day Blues. The shows were recorded 8/02 &
1/03 at Marilyn's,
12th & K (hence the title) in Sacramento. Street date
for the
Dig Music release is 5/27. Full track list, ordering info and
more
at: POSITIVELY 12th
& K. ........Thanks
to Marty DeAnda/Dig Music
May
10, 2003 NEW
COVERS • Christian-rocker
Larry
Norman CD has released
“Rock, Scissors et
Papier,” a compilation of unreleased songs which includes 2
Dylan covers:
In
The Garden and Positively 4th
Street. More info
and ordering available at http://larrynorman.com.........Thanks
to Dirk Krah for the tip • From Sweden
there is a new CD by Svante
Karlsson, "Autograph,"
including five Dylan-covers:
Quinn
The Eskimo (Mighty Quinn), Love Minus Zero/No Limit,
One
More Night,
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine and Emotionally
Yours. www.henhousemusic.just.nu........Thanks
to Ole Lien May
3, 2003 THE
WAIFS DO DYLAN Australian trio The
Waifs include a live
recording of Don't
Think Twice, It's Alright on their new EP
“Lighthouse.”........Thanks
to Nick McMahon
May
1, 2003 SEATRAIN
WATCH -ING THE RIVER FLOW Watching The River
Flow is covered
on “Watch,” the 1973 final album from Seatrain,
who evolved from The Blues Project. Reissue due May 20. More
info
at WOUNDED
BIRD RECORDS.......Available
from:...amazon.com...or...amazon.ca May
1, 2003 MEATLOAF
DOES DYLAN “Couldn't Have
Said It Better,” the new album
by Meatloaf,
includes a cover of Forever Young.........Thanks
to Dirk Krah for the tip The CD is already available
in Europe,
but will not be released in the US until August. Audio sample
available
at amazon.de.
May
1, 2003 AL
DIESAN BONUS TRACK Al Diesan's monthly
bonus track for May is When The Night Comes Falling From The
Sky. Listen at: http://www.al-diesan.it/html/bonustrack.eng.htm........Thanks
to Al April
28, 2003 COVERS-OF-THE-MONTH
UPDATED Olof has updated his
Covers-of-the-month page
with new mp3s at IT AIN'T ME BABE:
http://www.bjorner.com/coversofthemonth.htm April
25, 2003 COLD
IRONS BOUND - LIVE Jing Chi
is a rock/blues/jazz fusion project featuring Robben Ford, Jimmy Haslip
and Vinnie Colaiuta. Their just released live CD
“Jing Chi Live!”
includes a cover of Cold Irons Bound. ...............
Available from:...amazon.com...or...amazon.ca April
23, 2003 PRE-FAME
NORAH JONES DYLAN COVER TO BE RELEASED In 2000, before she began
work on her multi-Grammy-winning
debut album, Norah
Jones
worked with New York singer/songwriter Peter Malick, touring the
Northeast
U.S., and recording with his group. “New York
City,” a five-song
EP by the Peter Malick Group featuring Norah Jones will be released on
June 10 by Koch Records . Included is a cover of Bob Dylan's Heart
of Mine. April
23, 2003 LUKA
BLOOM COVERS DYLAN - LIVE “Amsterdam,”
the new live CD by Luka
Bloom,
includes Make You Feel
My Love. Bloom' s studio recording of the song
appeared on his
2000 album “Keeper Of The Flame.” ...............
“Amsterdam” available from:...amazon.com...or...amazon.de April
19, 2003 MAY
YOUR SONG ALWAYS BE SUNG VOL. 3 I have added the tracklist
for MAY
YOUR SONG ALWAYS BE SUNG, VOL. 3.
The new double-CD
is scheduled for release on May 26. It is available for
pre-order
at amazon.de.
The latest MYSABS will be officially added to DYLAN
COVER ALBUMS
closer to
it's release date. April
17, 2003 70,000
VISITORS CAN'T BE WRONG This morning DYLAN COVER
ALBUMS passed the
70,000 visitors mark since
launching in January 1999. Just a reminder that you
can help support
DYLAN COVER
ALBUMS
by using the links throughout the site when shopping at amazon.com,
amazon.ca,
amazon.co.uk,
amazon.deorGEMM.com.
Anytime you enter these vendors through the banners, logos or links at
the top of the NEWS
page, or on my SHOP
pages, or anywhere at DYLAN
COVER
ALBUMS, even for
unrelated purchases such as
books or videos, your business helps to support this site, at no cost
to
you. Thanks.......D.P. April
15, 2003 THE
BEARDS HAVE MOVED The Italian band The Beards have a new website at: http://www.thebeards.it They have recorded a new CD, “A Tribute to
The Band,”
including a cover of Tears of Rage.
The new CD will
available after May 20th. Available on their website are
audio samples
from a pre-mix version of the CD.........Thanks
to Emanuele April
14, 2003 COVERS
BY KURT Several mp3 Dylan Covers with acoustic guitar and harp by Kurt
can
be downloaded from his webpage at: http://www.angelfire.com/folk/kurtmusic/ April
14, 2003 SIMPLY
RED COVER DYLAN “Home,”
Simply
Red's first studio
album in more than three
years features some covers including Positively 4th
Street.
April
11, 2003 SCAN
REQUEST If anyone is willing to
provide a scan of
the STEREO version of the LINDA
MASON LP..(RIC
ST1005) please CONTACT
ME Compared to the mono LP,
the artwork is shifted
downward, with a large stereo logo above.
April
5, 2003 MAY YOUR SONG
ALWAYS BE SUNG VOL.
3
Due to be released May
26 is Volume 3 of BMG's “May Your Song Always Be
Sung” series of Dylan
tribute albums. Volume 3 follows the ORIGINAL
1997 CD and 2001's
VOLUME 2. An excerpt from
the liner notes:
Volume 3 is different from
the previous two: first, it’s a double, then it’s a
digipack, and then
you’ll see some names in the track listing that you might not
know. The
concept of this album was to gather some of the musically most
interesting
Dylan covers of recent years on one compilation. So you’ll
see some well
known artist names in the track listing, even some songs that were
exclusively
done for this project, and a lot of names that you might not be
familiar
with, but will make you want to hear more. -- Hanns
Peter Bushoff
April
5, 2003 STEVEN
KEENE ON DYLAN I have added two Steven
Keene titles to DYLAN
COVER ALBUMS: • KEENE
ON DYLAN DEMOS: A 3-song
CDR-EP of demos made for
MYSABS3 (see above) • KEENE
ON DYLAN: A 2-disc
reissue of the original 1990
“Keene on Dylan” promotional cassette, 25
tracks total, with a mix
of 11 Dylan covers, traditionals, and Steven Keene originals. Steven's 1995 album
“No Alternative” contains
3 Dylan covers plus 2 other tracks adapted from Dylan songs. All items plus more Steven
Keene titles are
available at: STEVENKEENE.COM........Thanks
to Jim at stevenkeene.com April
4, 2003 GERRY
MURPHY & BABYLON-D: THE SONGS OF BOB DYLAN LIVE! Gerry Murphy
has his Babylon-D
band together again (with a different line up,) and they're recording a
live show of “THE SONGS OF BOB
DYLAN” in The Halt
Bar in Glasgow on April 26th. Gerry hopes to release a CD of
the
show with at least 15 tracks at the end of May. More details
can
be found on Gerry's web-site: www.babylon-d.com.
Gerry's 2001 solo CD of Dylan songs can be seen HERE........Thanks
to Gerry April
1, 2003 AL
DIESAN BONUS TRACK Al Diesan's monthly
bonus track for April is One Too Many Mornings.
Listen at:
http://www.al-diesan.it........Thanks
to Al March
28, 2003 NEW
CD BY MARY LEE'S CORVETTE (No Dylan Content) Mary Lee's Corvette
is about to release their new CD “700
Miles.” If you enjoyed their
BLOOD
ON THE TRACKS
tribute, consider their new
album of originals by Mary Lee Kortes. Order from:..amazon.com...or...amazon.ca...or...amazon.co.uk March
28, 2003 THINKING
ABOUT BOB DYLAN
I have
added the 2002 CD THINKING
ABOUT BOB DYLAN in
VARIOUS
ARTISTS. The CD presents 6 Dylan covers + 6
originals (some
are about Bob) by six singer/songwriters: Rex
Foster, Jack Tannehill, Danny Schmidt, Kate & Paul
(Sobolewski), Will
Hoppey
and Norman Lamont. Mr. Tambourine Man by
Jack Tannehill was edited
after this original release. The new version of the song is
included
on a bonus disc (along with 5 more originals by album artists) that is
available for free to purchasers of the remaining stock of the original
pressing. Subsequent pressings will include the updated
track. This CD has been
available since last year,
but at the time I was told of the upgrade and decided to wait for the
new
edition. Since it now appears that isn't imminent, I've added
it
as-is.....For
more info visit: thinkingaboutbobdylan.com
March
27, 2003 CROSSING
JORDAN S/T
Due for release 4/1
is the soundtrack to the US TV drama “Crossing
Jordan,” featuring a collection
of classic songs remade by contemporary artists. Included are
Buckets
Of Rain by Vic
Chesnutt
and It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
by series star Jill
Hennessy, making her
singing debut.
Hennessy stars in the NBC drama about a Boston medical examiner with a
checkered career -- and a penchant for going beyond the call of duty to
investigate crimes. Full tracklist
& order from:..amazon.com...or...amazon.ca...or...amazon.co.uk
March
26, 2003 AND
ANOTHER NEW TRIBUTE In the final phases of
mixing/mastering is
yet another Dylan Cover Album! “Positively 12th
& K” is by Jackie
Greene/Sal Valentino & Friends.
Valentino was a founding member of The Beau Brummels (their hits: Laugh,
Laugh and Just A Little) and later
Stoneground, both recorded
some Dylan covers. Due to be released on May 27 by DIG
MUSIC. More info as it
becomes available.
Pre-order above. March
25, 2003 ANOTHER
NEW TRIBUTE Amazon is listing yet
another new Dylan tribute
CD, “The String Quartet Tribute to Bob
Dylan,” due to be released
4/8 by Vitamin Records (affiliated with CMH, the label with the Pickin'
On series.) Not yet shown at vitaminrecords.com.
Pre-order above. March
25, 2003 GONNA
SERVE NOBODY The release of
“Gotta Serve Somebody: The
Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan” has been delayed until
4/1. Pre-order
above. March
25, 2003
STILL MORE DOWNLOAD COVERS Thanks
to Bert Bohnen: T. Love
• Knockin’ On Heaven’s
Door • http://www.t-love.art.pl/load.php?id=multimedia The Stop Band
• Knockin’ On Heaven’s
Door • http://stopband.com.pl/demoe.html Hans Happe
• All Along The Watchtower
• http://home.t-online.de/home/Hhappe/ Lazy Dazy
• All Along The Watchtower
• http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~kbishop/lazypg4.html Billy Joe Kirby
• Like A Rolling Stone
• http://www.bjkirby.com/music.php Thursday Night Jammers
• Knockin’ On Heaven’s
Door (live
at Focal Point 06-22-00)
• http://www.webster.edu/~hellindc/Songs.html Salt
‘n’ Bocca
• Knockin’ On Heaven’s
Door • http://saltnbocca.ch/ Marley’s
Ghost
• Lay Down Your Weary Tune (from
‘Haunting Melodies’)
• http://www.cyberbites.com/marleys_ghost/mgmp3.html Marley’s Ghost
• Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan’s Dream) (from
‘Haunting Melodies’)
• http://www.cyberbites.com/marleys_ghost/mgmp3.html Marley’s Ghost
• Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (from
‘Live At The Freight’)
• http://www.cyberbites.com/marleys_ghost/mgmp3.html Deacon Blue
• Like A Rolling Stone
• http://circuslights.com/sound.htm Deacon Blue
• Every Grain Of Sand
• http://circuslights.com/sound.htm Deacon Blue
• When Will You Make My Telephone
Ring? (I Want You at the end)
• http://circuslights.com/sound.htm Patti Keegan
• Down In The Flood (Crash On The Levee)
• http://www.pattikeegan.com/ Patti Keegan
• Buckets Of Rain (as
Dylan’s Boogie (instumental))
• http://www.pattikeegan.com/ Patti Keegan
• You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome
When You Go
(instrumental) • http://www.pattikeegan.com/ REAL AUDIO: Peter
Mulvey
• Mama, You've Been
On My Mind • http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/features/2002/mulvey/index/html Thanks
to Ole Lien: Rick Danko
• Forever Young/ Wish
You Were Here Tonight (medley) • http://theband.hiof.no/updates.html Thanks
to Alan Cottrell: Note:
mp3s.com links can
be modified for local servers & languages: insert
country code
(uk., de., nl., fr., es., it.) before "artists" [ex:
http://uk.artists.mp3s.com/...] Ali Sadri
• Let Me Die in My Footsteps
• http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/109/ali_sadri.html Ali Sadri
• Visions of Johanna
• http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/109/ali_sadri.html Ali Sadri
• Percy’s Song
• http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/109/ali_sadri.html Sal Aversano
• Visions of Johanna
• http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/305/sal_aversano_live_.html Bob Z •
All
Along the Watchtower • http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/506/bob_z.html Patrick Baldwin
• All Along the Watchtower
• http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/518/patrick_baldwin.html LISTEN ONLY:
Kitty
Wells
• Forever Young
• http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/303/kitty_wells.html Curling
• When the Ship Comes In
• http://huizen.dds.nl/~arn/site/frames.htmlclick
LISTEN The Clumsy Lovers
• Don’t Think Twice
it’s Alright • http://www.clumsylovers.comclick
MUSIC Please
note: Links are to the webpages where these tracks are
available
- NO audio files are linked directly or are hosted
at DYLAN
COVER
ALBUMS March
20, 2003 UPDATE:
AARON NEVILLE DVD-AUDIO BONUS TRACK The bonus track
of With God On Our
Side on the DVD-Audio version of Aaron
Neville's new gospel
CD “Believe” is indeed
the version from “Yellow Moon,” the Neville
Brothers' 1989 album,
not a new recording. March
20, 2003
MORE DOWNLOAD COVERS Hank Shizzoe
- She Belongs To Me - http://www.hankshizzoe.com/news/news_det.jsp?ID_Display=100010 Paul Westerberg
- All I Really Want To Do - http://members.aol.com/paulspage/sounds.htm Please
note: Links are to the webpages where these tracks are
available
- NO audio files are linked directly or are hosted
at DYLAN
COVER
ALBUMS March
20, 2003 COVERS-OF-THE-MONTH
UPDATED Olof has updated his
Covers-of-the-month page
with new mp3s at IT AIN'T ME BABE:
http://www.bjorner.com/coversofthemonth.htm March
19, 2003 TOMBSTONE
>> BUICK 6 Thanks to Bill Hester for
informing me that
Track 1 of THE WOODSTOCK
SESSIONS, the 2000 Australian tribute
CD, is actually
From
A Buick 6 and not Tombstone Blues as
listed on the CD.
I can't believe I didn't realize it for 3 years. Now the
question
is, is it really Kevin Borich? I'm assuming every copy has
the error...
if not, let me know! March
16, 2003 BLUES
ON BLONDE ON BLONDE Due for release on April 22
is “Blues On Blonde
On Blonde,” a contemporary blues tribute to Bob's classic
album.
Randy Labbe also produced the similarly themed Blues White Album, a
2002
blues tribute to the Beatles’ self-titled 1968 album. He
says “Some
of our performances could be considered straight-ahead blues, while
others
may fall into related categories like early jazz, folk, soul and
zydeco.”
Contributing artists include Dylan-cover veterans Anders
Osborne, Sue
Foley, Duke
Robillard
and Walter
Trout. Full tracklist and more
info can be found
at TELARC
RECORDS.
Pre-order available
from:..amazon.com...or...amazon.ca March
14, 2003 FLEETWOOD
MAC DOES DYLAN? Reportedly the bonus disc
with Fleetwood
Mac's upcoming album
“Say You Will” (4/15)
includes a cover of Love Minus Zero/No Limit.
It's listed
on Asian editions available on eBay. Not sure if the US
edition will
be the same, Amazon has it listed, but without any details...amazon.com March
11, 2003 GOTTA
SERVE SOMEBODY WEBSITE “Gotta Serve
Somebody: The Gospel Songs of
Bob Dylan” now has it's own website, complete with
jukebox, liner
notes, comments, etc.: http://www.gottaservesomebody.com/home.html March
11, 2003
WOOT WAS IT YOU WANTED A new CD-R, available by
free distribution
only, has been produced by members of the Dylanpool community
[http://pool.dylantree.com]. “Woot Was It You
Wanted? - Songs From The
Pool” contains 12 covers, 2 Bob-related
traditionals, 2 Bob-related
original songs & a reading from
“Tarantula.” Artwork for the
project can be viewed and printed from here: http://pool.dylantree.com/pool_projects.php#wwiyw “Woot Was It You
Wanted?” has been added to
DYLAN
COVER ALBUMS
in
the VARIOUS ARTISTS section HERE Two of the CD-R's tracks
can be downloaded as mp3's from the participating artist's sites: The Rainjunkies
- Let Me Die In My Footsteps - http://www.rainjunkies.com Audry Rose with Picnicspirit
- Bob Dylan's 115th Dream - http://www.audryrose.com.....(The
Bathroom Tapes) MPEG-4 video of Bob
Dylan's 115th
Dream also available at audryrose.com Please
note: Links are to the webpages where these tracks are
available
- NO audio files are linked directly or are hosted
at DYLAN
COVER
ALBUMS March
10, 2003
EVEN MORE DOWNLOAD COVERS.......Thanks
to Bert Bohnen and *Jean Fernandez for these tips Kevin Hamilton
- It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
- http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~kevham/ownstuff.html Saalbau Reinach
- Mighty Quinn - http://www.tensing.ch/klang.html Cockroach -
Knockin’
On Heaven’s Door - http://www.eschenrieder-punkrock.de/mp3.html Kevin Longworth
- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
- http://www.soundclick.com/bands/7/kevinlongworthmusic.htm
(free registration required) Burnout - Knockin’
On Heaven’s Door - http://www.rockband-burnout.de/mp3.htm Mid Life Crisis Band
- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
- http://www.ee-bygum.com/MP3.htm Dave Mancini &
Band (jazz
instro) - Watching The River Flow
- http://www.nleaudio.com/audio/livearch.htm Headmasters -
Watching
The River Flow - http://w1.445.telia.com/~u44204642/sound.html *The
Backstreets
- Blowin' In The Wind
- http://digilander.libero.it/thebackstreets/ *The
Backstreets
- Like A Rolling Stone
- http://digilander.libero.it/thebackstreets/ Please
note: Links are to the webpages where these tracks are
available
- NO audio files are linked directly or are hosted
at DYLAN
COVER
ALBUMS March
6, 2003 GOTTA
SERVE SAMPLES Some 30 second audio
samples from “Gotta Serve
Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan” are
available at :..amazon.com Bob's new recording
of Gonna Change
My Way Of Thinking with Mavis Staples is not
sampled. March
6, 2003 MARCH FEATURE If you haven't yet, check
out my MARCH
FEATURE, DYLAN WITH
AN IRISH ACCENT.....COMMENTS
always welcome. March
5, 2003
MORE DOWNLOAD COVERS.........Thanks
to Jean Fernandez for these tips Art Gomperz Band
- All Along The Watchtower - http://www.qtm.net/~geibdan/artgomperz/clips.htm Art Gomperz Band
- Simple Twist Of Fate - http://www.qtm.net/~geibdan/artgomperz/clips.htm Please
note: Links are to the webpages where these tracks are
available
- NO audio files are linked directly or are hosted
at DYLAN
COVER
ALBUMS March
5, 2003 UNHALF(+1½)BRICKING Fairport Convention's
“Unhalfbricking” album, which originally had 3
Dylan covers (see 8/13/2000
FEATURE) is being reissued with 2
bonus tracks, Dear
Landlord (an outtake from the same sessions) and Ballad
Of
Easy Rider (which I don't consider a Dylan cover.) Dear
Landlord,
also appeared on Ashley Hutchings’ “The
Guv'nor” CD (see Oct.2002
FEATURE.)....Thanks
to Dirk Krah for the tip
March
2, 2003 COVERS-OF-THE-MONTH
UPDATED Olof has updated his
Covers-of-the-month page
with new mp3s at IT AIN'T ME BABE:
http://www.bjorner.com/coversofthemonth.htm February
25, 2003
BLOWIN' INYO FACE Other RealAudio
Dylan covers by Inyo
have been listed previously... see Oct
9, 2002 NEWS
Artist
Dylan cover
Note: mp3 and Windows
Media files available for a limited time
Please
note: Links are to the webpages where these tracks are
available
- NO audio files are linked directly or are hosted
at DYLAN
COVER ALBUMS
February
25, 2003 AARON
NEVILLE BONUS COVER - DVD-AUDIO ONLY The DVD-Audio version of Aaron
Neville's new gospel
CD “Believe” contains
a bonus track of With God On Our Side.
Unknown if it's
a new recording or the familiar Neville Brothers version. February
23, 2003
MORE DOWNLOAD COVERS
Please
note: Links are to the webpages where these tracks are
available
- NO audio files are linked directly or are hosted
at DYLAN
COVER ALBUMS
February
22, 2003 GOTTA
SERVE SOMEBODY PRE-ORDER “Gotta Serve
Somebody: The Gospel Songs of
Bob Dylan” is available for pre-order from:...amazon.com...or...amazon.ca February
21, 2003
DOWNLOAD COVERS
Please
note: Links are to the webpages where these tracks are
available
- NO audio files are linked directly or are hosted
at DYLAN
COVER ALBUMS
February
20, 2003 NEW
COVER “The Old Man
Springs a Boner,” a new album
by Mitch Ryder
released late last year in Germany, includes a new version of
The
Wicked Messenger. Ryder previously covered the song
on his 1982
album “Live Talkies.”
Available from:...amazon.de.....Thanks
to Dirk Krah February
20, 2003
DOWNLOAD COVERS
Please
note: Links are to the webpages where these tracks are
available
- NO audio files are linked directly or are hosted
at DYLAN
COVER ALBUMS
February
17, 2003 NEW
COVERS Visit BOBDYLAN.COM
to hear two new covers: Gates of Eden
by Marc
Carroll, an Irish
songwriter from Dublin,
and Seven Days by Loup
Garou, a New York City
zydeco band.
February
13, 2003 GOTTA
SERVE SOMEBODY: THE GOSPEL SONGS OF BOB DYLAN Press release from
Sony/Legacy: (tracklist
at end) • VARIOUS ARTISTS
- "GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY:
THE GOSPEL SONGS OF BOB DYLAN" ARRIVES IN STORES MARCH 25 ON COLUMBIA
RECORDS • FEATURES NEW
VERSIONS OF SONGS FROM DYLAN'S
TWO GOSPEL ALBUMS -- "SLOW TRAIN COMING" AND "SAVED" -- PERFORMED BY
TODAY'S
TOP GOSPEL ARTISTS • INCLUDES A
BRAND-NEW DUET BY BOB DYLAN AND
MAVIS STAPLES ON WHOLLY REWRITTEN VERSION OF "GONNA CHANGE MY WAY OF
THINKING" • SHIRLEY CAESAR,
AARON NEVILLE, FAIRFIELD
FOUR, MIGHTY CLOUDS OF JOY, LEE WILLIAMS AND THE SPIRITUAL QCs, AMONG
THOSE
CONTRIBUTING TO THE 11 NEWLY-RECORDED TRACKS • THIS COLLECTION
MARKS THE REUNION OF DYLAN'S
GOSPEL TOURING BAND PERFORMING "SOLID ROCK" WITH SOUNDS OF BLACKNESS
"I like the fact
that Bob Dylan couldn't care
less about what people say or think about his music, because you write
what's in your heart." - Shirley Caesar, the queen of gospel "I think it's interesting,
twenty years now
from that time, from that gospel period, there's now a record with
people
singing those songs. So, twenty years had to go by for people to become
aware of the fact that Bob Dylan is one of our great gospel writers?"
--
drummer Jim Keltner Nearly a quarter-century
after Bob Dylan's
"Gotta Serve Somebody" cracked the Top 30 and garnered him his first
Grammy
Award, a new album by that name, GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY: THE GOSPEL SONGS
OF BOB DYLAN, presents eleven newly-recorded renditions of songs from
Slow
Train Coming and Saved performed by today's leading gospel artists,
including
Aaron Neville ("Saving Grace"), Mighty Clouds of Joy ("Saved"), Lee
Williams
and the Spiritual QCs ("When You Gonna Wake Up"), the Fairfield Four
("Are
You Ready"), and Shirley Caesar, the queen of gospel herself,
performing
the title track. The compilation allows these songs to be
heard finally
in a wholly new and fresh context, perhaps the very context in which
they
were always destined to be heard - as pure, unadulterated gospel
music.
The title arrives in stores March 25th on Columbia Records, a division
of Sony Music. GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY also
includes a new duet
by Bob Dylan and Mavis Staples of the Staples Singers on his
smoking-hot,
rewritten version of "Gonna Change My Way of Thinking," recorded with
his
2002 touring band. "The music is great -- it's
uplifting too,"
says Joe Ligon of the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Mighty Clouds of
Joy,
contemporary gospel's preeminent group, known for
its trademark
quartet style. Says Ligon, the group's co-founder and leader
since
1955, "The music sounds like back home in one of those sanctified
churches
where I come from, where everybody would get up, and they would be
beating
a tambourine, and playing the drums, and all of that's going on, and
the
old ladies, and the young people clapping, and people falling out and
feeling
God's spirit." That spirit is heard in the
joyous sound of
a revival meeting in the Mighty Clouds of Joy's version of "Saved" and
in the inspirational, soulful testifying by Detroit singer Rance Allen
on "When He Returns." "The writer of 'When He
Returns' has to have
had a real experience with the Lord, because those kind of lyrics do
not
come up out of just singing and writing," said Allen, a featured lead
vocalist
along with Men of Standard on Something About the Name Jesus" from Kirk
Franklin's 1998 blockbuster album The Nu Nation Project.
"It's powerful
stuff, powerful stuff." It wasn't hard to convince
these artists to
take part in this project. Many of them were already familiar with Bob
Dylan's material. Shirley Caesar, whose crowded trophy closet
includes
10 Grammys and 17 Dove awards, sang "Gotta Serve Somebody" at the
request
of Bob Dylan when President Clinton presented him with a Lifetime
Achievement
Award at the Kennedy Center in 1997. Mavis Staples, of course,
has been a friend
of Bob Dylan's for over 40 years (as can be heard near the beginning of
"Change My Way of Thinking," when Dylan stops the band
in order to give
Staples a hearty greeting when she wanders into the recording session
mid-song).
Bob Dylan songs were staples of the Staple Singers' repertoire of
"message
music" since the early 1960s, and the group ? the first
African-American
performers to record a Bob Dylan song -- helped make anthems out of
Dylan
songs like "Blowin' in the Wind," "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and
"Masters
of War." Nor was Aaron Neville a
stranger to the work
of Bob Dylan; his version of "I Shall Be Released" graced his 2000
gospel
album, "Devotion." He has also recorded a version of "Don't
Fall
Apart on Me Tonight," and with the Neville Brothers he recorded "The
Ballad
of Hollis Brown and "With God on Our Side." Formed in 1921, The
Fairfield Four - who were
recently featured in both the film and soundtrack to "O Brother, Where
Art Thou?" and in the "Down from the Mountain" documentary and concert
tour -- stamp "Are You Ready" with their four-part harmony vocals in
the
vintage, "jubilee" style the quartet helped to create. The genesis of GOTTA SERVE
SOMEBODY: THE GOSPEL
SONGS OF BOB DYLAN goes back to 1980, when as a college freshman,
executive
producer Jeffrey Gaskill attended his first Bob Dylan show.
During
this period, Dylan had put aside his political anthems and searing
personal
ballads in favor of set lists drawn almost entirely of songs from Slow
Train Coming and Saved." "I recognized he was taking
a stand and doing
something highly unusual for someone in his position, and I was amazed
by that," remembers Gaskill. "I felt the obligation to
entrust these
songs to the finest gospel singers to be found." The album -- produced by
Joel Moss, best known
for his Grammy Award-winning work with gospel singer Cissy Houston --
also
reunites Bob Dylan's touring band from his "born-again" period,
including
bassist Tim Drummond, guitarist Fred Tackett, pianist Terry Young, and
drummer Jim Keltner, on a jubilant version of "Solid Rock" performed
with
Grammy-winning group, Sounds of Blackness, the choir from Dylan's home
state of Minnesota. Also featured is a lead vocal by Regina
McCrary,
one of the backup singers from Dylan's gospel albums and concert tours,
performing "Pressing On" with the Grammy-nominated Chicago Mass Choir. The album features
contributions by organist
Spooner Oldham (Percy Sledge, Neil Young) -- also a member of the
original
gospel touring band - who lends his Hammond B-3 organ to Aaron
Neville's
version of "Saving Grace," and keyboardist Billy Preston (the Beatles,
the Rolling Stones), who plays on two tracks, including a rendition of
"What Can I Do For You?" by Grammy nominee and Dove Award-winner Helen
Baylor. The album also includes a version of "I Believe in
You" by
Atlanta-based, Dove and Stellar award-winning vocalist Dottie Peoples. "On this recording, we can
separate what Dylan
is saying in his gospel songs from the drama of his saying it," writes
author Tom Piazza in the album's liner notes. In addition,
says Piazza,
"we see, again, how rooted Dylan is in the grain of American music, the
Saturday night/Sunday morning tug-of-war that has lent tension and fire
to the fact of the Gospel in the singing of Ralph Stanley, Little
Richard,
Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, and Hank Williams, among so many others." For Regina McCrary, who
sang with Bob Dylan
throughout the original gospel period in 1979-1981, GOTTA SERVE
SOMEBODY
brings things full circle. A lead vocalist with the Bobby
Jones Gospel
Choir and the daughter of the late Reverend Sam McCrary --
"the Singing
Preacher" of the Fairfield Four -- McCrary says, "I don't think that a
song that is written about God -- about his 'Saving Grace' or about
'Serve
Somebody' or 'Pressing On' or 'Saved' or 'I Believe in You' or 'Are You
Ready' -- will ever die, no matter who wrote them. But
because Bob
Dylan wrote them and we're going in and we're doing them over now, I
think
that all it does is just remind people that this man is God-gifted."
GOTTA SERVE
SOMEBODY: THE GOSPEL SONGS OF BOB
DYLAN
(CK/CT 89015) Selections: 1. Shirley Caesar, "Gotta
Serve Somebody" 2. Lee Williams and the
Spiritual QCs, "When
You Gonna Wake Up" 3. Dottie Peoples, "I
Believe in You" 4. Fairfield Four, "Are You
Ready" 5. Sounds of Blackness,
"Solid Rock" 6. Aaron Neville, "Saving
Grace" 7. Helen Baylor, "What Can
I Do For You?" 8. Chicago Mass Choir,
"Pressing On" 9. Mighty Clouds of Joy,
"Saved" 10. Rance Allen, "When He
Returns" 11. Bob Dylan and Mavis
Staples, "Gonna Change
My Way of Thinking.
February
12, 2003 NEW
COVER Aaron Neville:
Gotta
Serve Somebody, on his new gospel CD
“Believe”
February
11, 2003 MORE
MICHEL Michel Montecrossa has
already covered ’Cross
The Green Mountain from “Gods and
Generals”, on his maxi single
“War Is Hell.” www.Mirapuri-Enterprises.com/Michel-BobDylan February
3, 2003 FOLK
FROM THE NORTH WEST COUNTRY Dana Magnuson,
a folk singer from Idaho, has released a trilogy of CD-Rs that include
some Dylan covers. The tracks are a mix of tapes recorded in
non-studio
settings from 1969-75, plus some newly recorded tracks
(1999-2002.)
All the Dylan covers except Tryin' To Get To Heaven
are from the
early tapes. It's all very confusing, as each CD has 3
titles!
Other tracks are originals, traditionals, some Hank Williams and other
covers. Magnuson's vocals have a Dylan-esque twang.
It's what
you would expect from 30 year old, unreleased, "non-studio setting"
recordings!
For completists only, IMHO. Like A Rolling Stone
sounds like a vocal
overdub experiment gone terribly wrong, Going,
Going, Gone
& Stuck Inside Of Mobile are only 1:29
& 1:03 respectively,
St.
Augustine is a little longer at 2:38. The newer and
studio-recorded
Tryin'
To Get To Heaven is a big improvement. Distributed
by Sooyaapoo
Records. Available from CDBaby at the links below. ......Thanks
to Dirk Krah for the tip
The
Minstrel's Progress / The Sweeney
Collection / Whose Experience Is
This Anyway?
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February
1, 2003 AL
DIESAN SINGLE Available from Al
Diesan is a CDR-single
of Blowing In The
Wind / All Along The Watchtower.
BITW is
a new recording, Watchtower is a slow
version recorded in
1993. More details HERE. Blowing In The
Wind can also
be heard as February's bonus track on Al's website:http://www.al-diesan.it February
1, 2003 COVERS
IN M&A Several cover versions are
heard in Bob Dylan's
“Masked & Anonymous” film,
including Articolo
31's Like A
Rolling Stone and a Spanish
language version of On A Night Like This by Los
Lobos,
recorded for the film.
There is no word yet of a soundtrack from the movie, and any
songs
mentioned may not survive further editing.
February
1, 2003 GOSPEL
TRIBUTE UPDATE Rumors are that the
long-awaited gospel tribute
album is to be released in 2-3 months, by the Integrity Gospel
label.
Apparently the title is now “Gotta Serve
Somebody,” instead of “Pressing
On” as reported earlier.
January
28, 2003 NEW
IN VOCALS: PetTOMMY New in VOCALS
is a promotional
CDR by the German band PetTommy,
VIVA
BOB DYLAN! The 7-track
CDR starts with some hard-driving
rock'n'roll and ends with acoustic versions of License
To Kill
and My Back Pages. The CD is a
promotional CD only,
if anyone is interested to get it, contact the band at: www.brokenhearts.beep.de
(This temporary web page is in German only. If anyone has a
problem
with the language, you can send an e-mail in English to: d.edelhof@avm.de).......Thanks
to Wilbur & PetTommy January
21, 2003 MARIA
MULDAUR LIVE Maria Muldaur's “Live
In London,” a 1984 concert recording that was released on CD
last year,
contains a cover of Ain't No Man Righteous.
January
21, 2003 ALIAS After hearing some of the
UK tribute CDs by
Studio
99, they are
the same recordings as
the US CDs released by Big Eye! The US CDs generally have a
few less
tracks and are credited to different group names (or no credit at
all.)
These are listed on my NON-DYLAN
TRIBUTES page. I have
heard the Cher
and Garth Brooks
tributes. January
7, 2003 DILLON:
CONCLUSIONS ON THE WALL New in the EP section is CONCLUSIONS
ON THE WALL, a 5-track CD
from the UK Dylan tribute
band Dillon. More info and contact
information can be found
on the band's webpage at: http://www.dillon1.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ January
7, 2003 NEW-ish
COVER Released in September,
“Mama Tried” by Mark
Wenner & The BelAirs
includes a cover
of She Belongs To Me. Available from:.amazon.com January
4, 2003 AL
DIESAN BONUS TRACK Al Diesan's monthly
bonus track for January is Isis.
Listen at: http://www.al-diesan.it January
1, 2003 HAPPY
NEW YEAR