Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Battle of the Dylan Cover Bands: The Finals

Congratulations & good luck to the 6 finalists in DylanRadio.com's Battle of the Dylan Cover Bands. Voting is now open and the 6 finalists can be heard at regular times during the day. Many of the remaining bands will be familiar to readers of this blog.
Visit DylanRadio.com for more info.

Ghosts of Electricity - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Jacques Mees - Simple Twist of Fate
Maggie's Farm Southern Band - Slow Train
Oksana Mysina and Oxy Rocks - Things Have Changed
PetTommy - Just Like A Woman
Zimming Point - Tight Connection To My Heart

Monday, February 23, 2009

The Dylan Mass EP

The Dylan Mass, a five track EP by The Multitude of Sins is available for free download from the Music Ruined My Life blog. The rar archive file contains 5 mp3s and artwork.
The tracklist: Lay Down Your Weary Tune / Every Grain Of Sand / Father Of Night / Pressing On / I Shall Be Released
Thanks to Detlef Edelhof

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Dylan Covers DataBase reaches 25,000

New total in the
Dylan Covers DataBase:
25,000

Thanks to all who have submitted additions.
If you find the DataBase useful please consider supporting it with a donation using the PayPal buttons provided in the right sidebar of this page or on the main DataBase page.
Thanks -- D.P.

Friday, February 20, 2009

New Hugues Aufray reported

Reports are circulating of a new Dylan Cover Album by 80-year old Hugues Aufray. The album will be titled The New Yorker and features duets with Johnny Hallyday, Eddie Mitchell, Francis Cabrel and others. On-line sources give September 14 as a release date. More details when available.

'03 Dylan tribute by The Zen Tricksters

A 2003 Dylan tribute show by The Zen Tricksters is available at the Live Music Archive. The soundboard recording is from B.B. King's in New York City on May 24, 2003. Included in the 13 song show is the rarely covered No Time To Think.
The show is also available via bit torrent at bt.etree.org.

The tracklist:
Leopard Skin Pill-Box Hat / Heart of Mine / Fourth Time Around / Tweeter and the Monkey Man / Tears of Rage / Mozambique / Visions of Johanna / Masters of War / Song To Woody / Hazel / No Time To Think / Silvio / Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35

Friday, February 13, 2009

CD Baby listing updated

Over 100 new covers on CDs available from CD Baby have been added this week, browse the New Additions list to see what's new.
Also links to CD Baby have been added to many existing items. There are now more than 1,150 CD Baby links in the DataBase. A list is available HERE (there is a permanent link in the right sidebar.)
CD Baby ships internationally and is reknowned for their fast service. Using the CD Baby links here or in the DataBase helps to support DylanCover.com.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

“The Bob Dylan Songs” updated at DCA

The Dylan Cover Albums listing for the 1992 German compilation The Bob Dylan Songs has been updated with a scan and details of the 14-track cassette version. The CD added 2 bonus tracks and has a different track sequence.
Thanks to Ronald Born

Monday, February 09, 2009

Two Grammy Awards for Corigliano's MTM Cycle

John Corigliano's Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan received two 2009 Grammy Awards, for Best Classical Vocal Performance and Best Classical Contemporary Composition.
See September 05 2008 post.

Monday, February 02, 2009

New Billy

Gretchen Peters and Tom Russell cover Billy 4 on their new CD One To The Heart, One To The Head.
Available from CD Baby

Sunday, February 01, 2009

11th Year of Dylan Cover Albums

Friday was the end of Dylan Cover Albums' 10th year. Those original pages that are now part of DylanCover.com were first on-line January 30, 1999.
Thanks to all who have contributed in any way over the first decade of the website.

DataBase updates

A reminder that the Dylan Covers DataBase is now updated "on the fly" instead of only first-of-month updates as in the past. 270 new covers were added during January. Monitor the New Additions list to keep informed of new covers being added.

12 new in Dylan Title Tracks

Dylan Title Tracks has been updated with 12 new items, for a new total of 1,481.
Thanks to Ronald Born, Hanns Peter Bushoff,Manuel Garcia Jara and Michael Tearson for this month's Title Tracks additions.