Thursday, June 26, 2008

Josephine Baker sings Dylan

It's not often that a Dylan cover by a famous performer goes undetected, but just yesterday I was told of a cover of The Times They Are A-Changin' by Joséphine Baker. The recording is from Baker's 1973 concert at Carnegie Hall, and was released in France on the LP Josephine Baker Recorded Live At Carnegie Hall later that year. A CD was issued in 1995 but is now out of print.
If anyone can provide a scan of the LP and/or CD, it would be much appreciated. I could not find anything on-line.
And of course if anyone can provide a mp3 of the track... :))

I'm curious to know if anyone knew of this cover! Please leave a comment.

Thanks to Jack for the tip and info

Saturday, June 21, 2008

New in Dylan Cover Albums: BitterSweet

Now added to Dylan Cover Albums HERE is Mary & Jay...Do Bob, an album of 11 Dylan songs by BitterSweet, a duo from the Iron Range of northern Minnesota. Mary Jo Grizzard and Jay Hoiland grew up about 20 miles from where Bob was raised.
The CD is released by Blue Wolf Records and is packaged in a fold-open card sleeve. More info at jayhoiland.com
Audio samples and international ordering available at CD Baby.

The tracklist:
Mr. Tambourine Man / Like A Rolling Stone / It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry / All Along The Watchtower / I Shall Be Released / Positively 4th Street / Everything Is Broken / Highway 61 Revisited / Seven Days / Don't Think Twice, It's Alright / Blowin' In The Wind

Thanks to Jean Fernandez for the tip
Thanks to Jay Hoiland & BitterSweet

From the DylanCover.com collection: Surgery

Knockin' On Heaven's Door (6:56)
Surgery

From Twisted Minds Come...
(various artists)
LP: Noiseville 18 (1990, US)

Surgery is described as a "blues-drenched post-hardcore band" from Manhattan's lower east side.
I won't try to describe this noise beyond that!
This was a limited edition various artist LP, with 800 copies pressed on yellow vinyl and 1,700 on black vinyl.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Steve Forbert covers Tryin' To Get To Heaven

Steve Forbert covers Tryin' To Get To Heaven on Underwatertown, a new four song download EP to benefit victims of the recent flooding in Iowa. All proceeds from sale of the downloads go to The Iowa Artist Relief Fund.
I'm biased being a long-time Forbert fan, but it's a great cover of the song, recorded solo in May of 2006. So help a good cause and get a great cover. The title track Underwatertown is an unreleased Forbert song from 1983.
Purchasing is very easy with payment via PayPal, after which you are redirected to a download page with 4 simple links to high-quality 320kbps mp3s.
More info and ordering at steveforbert.com

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Kokomo on NZ Radio

The Sampler programme of June 17 on NZ Radio (available to listen to in entirety) features six of the In The Well tracks by Kokomo (about nine minutes into the programme)
Thanks to Bill Hester

The CD is available internationally from CD Baby

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

The Byrds Play Dylan... yet again

Another version of The Byrds Play Dylan has been added to Dylan Cover Albums HERE. This 2004 version with unique artwork was released by Sony's Nordic division.
Content-wise, the 13-track CD is the same as the recent 2008 reissue, with the UK track sequence and the 1965 version of Baby Blue
.
Sony Music 519565 2.
Thanks to Lars M. Banke for the scan & information

More Dylan covers available at CD Baby

More Dylan covers available at CD Baby:

Idiot Wind
Phil Pritchett -- Blueprint Garage Vol.2

You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
You Angel You
Brewflies -- On The Fly

I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
Harold Mark Jordan -- The New York Work Tapes

Like A Rolling Stone
Rainy Day Women 12 & 35
Donald George -- The Luckiest Man Alive

Restless Farewell
Alan Rhody -- Boxcars Of Memories

Ballad Of Hollis Brown
North Country Blues
Ken Tizzard -- Lost In Awe

Thanks to Jean Fernandez for the tips

When you scan your master pieces...

Since my first request for scans was posted almost a month ago, over 140 new scans have been or will be added to the Dylan Covers DataBase. Many thanks to Lars M. Banke, Ronald Born, Hanns Peter Bushoff, and Bill Hester for the majority of these new additions, most of which are on display HERE.
Scans of any missing items (not just those on my singles "want list") are always welcome.

As of this posting, 90.3% of the DataBase listings that could have artwork are illustrated.
11,450
covers in the DataBase have at least one image, many have multiple images.
43.3% of the complete DataBase are items for which no artwork exists (downloads, on-line covers, circulating/unofficial covers, etc.)

Monday, June 16, 2008

Songs about Bob

No Dylan covers, but those of you who collect songs about Bob and/or Dylan-related songs might be interested in I Love Bob Dylan! by The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan. Titles include Expecting Rain Dot Com, Anyone Who Claims to Like Self Portrait is a Liar, Suggestions For Future Volumes of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series, Bob Dylan vs. Donovan and 14 more.
The album is available as a mp3 download from CD Baby.

Friday, June 13, 2008

BAP Guide updated

The BAP Dylan Covers Collector's Guide has been updated with the addition of Radio Pandora (plugged) with Für immer jung (Forever Young), and Radio Pandora (unplugged) with Señor and Every Grain Of Sand (Jed Körnche Sand.)
The two CDs are available separately or together in a deluxe box-set from amazon.de.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2008

Michel Montecrossa has released the recordings from the Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2008. The set is available as either a 4-CD + 2 DVD set (no Dylan content on the DVDs,) or as a 6-DVD set. The set will soon be available from iTunes and other download services.
As usual the Dylan songs are mixed with Montecrossa songs. The 22 Dylan songs include some early obscurities, all the songs from Saved, and the 2 soundtrack songs Tell Ol' Bill and Huck's Tune. Titles below in red are debuts in the Dylan Covers DataBase.
Also included are several traditional and other songs that Bob has recorded or performed.

The set has been added to Dylan Cover Albums HERE.
More info at the album webpage.

The Dylan songs:
Tell Ol' Bill / Straight A's In Love / Rock Me Mama / If I Don't Be There By Morning / Walk Out In The Rain / Legionnaire's Disease / Huck's Tune / Train A-Travelin' / I'd Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day / Go Away You Bomb / Talkin' Devil / Death Of Emmett Till / The Ballad Of Donald White / Cuban Missile Crisis / Saved / Covenant Woman / What Can I Do For You? / Solid Rock / Pressing On / In The Garden / Saving Grace / Are You Ready?
The Dylan-related songs:
Cocaine Blues / People Get Ready / Somebody Touched Me / Grand Coulee Dam / Acne / Silver Dagger / Golden Vanity / Ballad Of Easy Rider / A Satisfied Mind / Wade In The Water

Saturday, June 07, 2008

The Dylan Project reissued with bonus tracks

The first two albums by The Dylan Project have been reissued as a 2-CD set with 2 bonus tracks by the UK label Road Goes On Forever.
Disc 1 is Steve Gibbons: The Dylan Project with I Shall Be Released added, and Disc 2 is Live at Cropredy Festival 1999 with Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 added. Both bonus tracks were recorded Live at Banbury (date unknown.)
I've added the new reissue to
Dylan Cover Albums HERE.
Available from: amazon.com | amazon.co.uk | amazon.de

From the DylanCover.com collection:
The Passports

The Times They Are A-Changin' (3:22)
The Passports

Passports - Tabooz 66
LP: Cori CRLP 31002 (1966, US)

The Passports and The Tabooz were two female vocal groups from the now-defunct Bradford Junior College, located west of Boston, Massachusetts. The school later became co-ed, but was women-only at the time of these 1966 recordings. Each side of the split-LP featured one of the groups, The Times They Are A-Changin' was performed by The Passports. It's very unlikely this LP will ever be on CD!

Friday, June 06, 2008

New in the DylanCover.com collection:
Star Hustler

Seven Curses (5:07)
Star Hustler
Transamber
CD: Dirt Records drt035; 1998 (US)

Star Hustler was first formed as a alt-rock band in Portland, Oregon, led by Bostonian Jason Hatfield (Juliana's brother.) By the time of Transamber, Hatfield was back in Boston and Star Hustler had become an alt-country/bluegrass/rock band, with Blake Hazard on co-lead vocals. Most of the album, including Seven Curses, features their male-female harmonizing vocals. The short (37 minute/10 track) album has 8 original songs by Hatfield, the other cover is Flatt & Scruggs' Dim Lights.
This CD is out of print, check for used copies at
amazon.com

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Miscellaneous ramblings...

Added: Thanks to Ronald Born for 20 45 & EP scans for use in the DataBase. See them HERE.

UK band Ancient Cracked Voice has added a listen-only cover of I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine to their MySpace player. The track is from The Well of Follies, their current album project.
She Belongs To Me from their The Perfect Match album is still available, but Blind Willie McTell has been deleted.
I can use a scan of the CD if anyone has it.

Shawn Elliott's 1966 cover of Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues can be downloaded at the I'm Learning To Share! blog. The track is from the singer/actor's LP Shame & Scandal In The Family. Tom Thumb's Blues was released as a single in France.

The Hibbings are a Dylan cover band at Kyoto University in Japan. They have videos of Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You and Hurricane on YouTube.

More YouTube covers of Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You: Carolyn Wonderland, Happy Traum, Larry Hoyt

Recently discovered covers by singer/songwriters:
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Andy Santana / Take Me With You CD Baby
I Shall Be Released
Kenny James / Give Me Peace CD Baby
I Shall Be Released
Harley Symington / Don't Talk CD Baby

No Dylan Content: Leonard Cohen fans may be interested in the self-titled CD by Conspiracy of Beards, a 30-man a cappella choir from San Francisco whose repertoire consists of only Cohen songs. The 5-track CD is available from CD Baby.

New in the DylanCover.com collection:
Kerry Michaels

Gotta Serve Somebody (4:02)
Kerry Michaels
Workin' Up A Sweat
CD: EMN Records 8802; 2000 (US)

Texas-born, Carolina-based blues/soul shouter Kerry Michaels used her deep vocal style to good effect on this soul-revue style version of Gotta Serve Somebody, from her debut album.
Available from
amazon.com

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

The Band website is gone (for now)

Sorry to see The Band website (http://theband.hiof.no/) has gone off-line, it was a great resource. Hopefully it will return in some form, if only as an archive. A statement and some external links are all that remain.

Monday, June 02, 2008

Summer reminder...

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Thank You --D.P.

Sunday, June 01, 2008

First-of-month updates for June 1, 2008

The Dylan Covers DataBase has been updated,
adding
240 new covers for a new total of 22,394.
Click here to view New Additions Only
90 new images were added (see previous post.)

Dylan Title Tracks
added
28 new items, for a new total of 1,369.
Thanks to Manuel Garcia Jara (an amazing 27 new additions) and Bill Hester for this month's Title Tracks additions.

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

Artists who had covers added to the DataBase during May 2008:
Adele, Gary Backstrom, Michel Benita featuring Manu Codjia (2), Blackbirdz, Bloodkin, The Bridge (Trio), The Byrds (4), Carlos Casacuberta, Certain Sounds ’81, Chinese Fingertrap (2), Chris & Carla, Shawn Colvin, Jay Constable and Lincoln Street (5), Cosmic Railroad, Cubensis (7), Donnelly Blues Band, Dream Syndicate, Chris Duarte Group (2), Dylan Hears a Who (6), ekoostik Hookah (2), Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Emmitt Nershi Band (2), Drew Emmitt Band, Kate Gaffney & guests, Gertrude's Hearse (3), Susie Glaze, Jake Goodfleisch (2), The Gourds (2), Gov't Mule (2), Grateful Dead (6), Greensky Bluegrass, Hairy Larry, Hot Buttered Rum (3), Jason Isbell, Elana James, Jason & The Scorchers, Jellyfishbabies, JGB (3), Joker777 (6), Dave Katz & John Mullins, Leftover Salmon (2), Phil Lesh & Friends, Little Women (11), Marks Brothers (2), Max Creek (6), Del McCoury Band, Midlife Crisis, Anais Mitchell, Mike Morningstar & Rick Roberts (11), Mud City Ramblers (41), Maria Muldaur (15), New Riders of the Purple Sage, North Mississippi Allstars (2), The Other Ones, Outformation, Tim Palmieri (3), Piano Throwers, Porter Batiste Stoltz (2), Chuck Prophet, The Radiators (2), Ratdog, Reckless Kelly, Martin Reimann (8), Richie Rhinestone and The Insatiable Opium Cowboys, Shinyribs (2), Smeke (16), The Sound Factory (2), Splintered Sunlight (2), Stars, Tawa College Dawn Chorus, Dave Van Ronk, Bob Walkenhorst (4), White Stripes (2), The Wood Brothers, Workingman's Ed, Yo La Tengo, Yonder Mountain String Band, Zimming Point (3), The Zone (4)