This is a great performance by Ron Wood of a killer song from the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary concert (black & white):
RONNIE WOOD Seven Days from Sky Vibes on Vimeo.
Same video essentially (color):
Ronnie Wood – Seven Days (Live Dylan's Birthday… by mrjyn
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Go Solo Young Man: Deerhunter front Bradford Cox has created the score for the documentary film “Teenage.” The film is based on Jon Savage’s 2007 book, “Teenage: Tghe Prehistory of Youth Culture 1875-1945. — Consequence Of Sound
Second Book Due From Neil Young: The iconoclastic artist will have his second, as yet untitled, memoir published this fall by Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin. New Rider says the second memoir is an “eclectic amalgam” that also will include artwork by Young, focus on his passion for cars and feature stories about his life in music and thoughts on politics and the environment. Young’s next album, A Litter Home, will be released in March by Jack White’s Third Man Records. — Associated Press
First Aid Kit Goes Big Time: The terrific Swedish duo First Aid Kit will have their third album released by Columbia Records later this year. The duo have an etherial freak-folk sound; they begin a U.S. tour May 22 at the Wonder Ballroom in Portland. — Brooklyn Vegan
Beatle Writings Up For Auction: More than 100 of John Lennon’s drawings, poetry and prose will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in New York on June 4, 2014. The works are expected to bring in around $130,000. — New York Times
Brian Eno’s ‘Irregular And Awkward’ Sounds: Brian Eno & Underworld’s Karl Hyde have a collaborative album coming in May. “A lot of the nicer cities I know are cities built on hills, and the cities are beautiful because the buildings have a challenge to adapt to,” said Eno. “They have to mould themselves around the geology that they’ve formed upon. And that always makes for very interesting buildings, because they can’t just be blocks, they have to somehow morph around the environment. A lot of the constructions on the album were deliberately irregular and awkward. I had a big collection of ‘beginnings’ sitting around waiting for something to galvanise them into life, to make them more than just ‘experiments’. That something turned out to be Karl Hyde.” — Brooklyn Vegan
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David Byrne, Mike Mills formerly of R.E.M, Cake’s John McCrea, Tift Merritt, and Marc Ribot performed at NYC’s Le Poisson Rouge Tuesday evening. The concert supported Content Creators Coalition-NYC, a group currently petitioning congress for pay-for-play radio royalties for artists, Consequence Of Sound reported.
As it stands now, when a recording is played on the radio, the composer is paid a royalty but not the recording artist (unless they happen to be the composer.)
Byrne covered “Just a Friend” by Biz Markie to make a point.
“Mr. Markie didn’t write that tune (although he did probably write the rap),” Byrne wrote in his e-newsletter. “The drum and keyboard loop was lifted from a Freddie Scott recording, but the song was written by Gamble and Huff, the great songwriting team that wrote for The O’Jays and The Spinners. So chances are Biz Markie didn’t see any royalties from all the radio play that song got.”
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Neil Davidge has been a key conspirator on the Massive Attack albums Mezzanine, 100th Window, Danny The Dog and Heligoland.
Now he’s releasing his first solo debut, Slo Light, – which includes guest appearances from Cate Le Bon, Sandie Shaw and others, according to Fact magazine.
The album is out on March 24, 2014 but you can listen right now:
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Twenty-five years ago, on February 28, 1989, Bob Dylan began work with producer Daniel Lanois at a Victorian Mansion on Soniat Street in New Orleans that Lanois had turned into a recording studio. Dylan sets the scene in “Chronicles”: “parlor windows, louvered shutters, high Gothic ceiling, walled-in courtyard, bungalows and garages in the back.”
Dylan writes about how much he likes New Orleans in “Chronicles”: “There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better. There’s a thousand different angles at any moment. At any time you could run into a ritual honoring some vaguely known queen. Bluebloods, titled persons like crazy drunks, lean weakly against the walls and drag themselve through the gutter. Even they seem to have insights you might want to listen to. No action seems inappropriate here. The city is one very long poem. Gardens full of pansies, pink petunias, opiates. Flower-bedecked shrines, white myrtles, bougainvillea and purple oleander stimulate your senses, make you feel cool and clear inside.”
The first session took place on February 28, 1989, according to Michael Krogsgaard, who has examined Columbia’s documentation of Dylan recording sessions. “Born In Time” was recorded.
The musicians: Bob Dylan (piano, guitar and dobro), Malcolm Burns (guitar), Daniel Lanois (electric and 12-string guitars, dobro, harpsichord, drums and bass), Darryl Johnson (bass and glockenspiel).
Krogsgaard writes that Dylan recorded new vocals on March 7 and April 13, 1989, and Lanois and Dylan recorded guitar overdubs at additional sessions.
Who knows why Dylan didn’t include this song on Oh Mercy. It’s for sure a keeper.
The first version I have included is very beautiful, and when Clinton Heylin calls the song “magnificent” in his book “Bob Dylan The Recording Sessions [1960 – 1994]” and says it has a “timeless quality,” this is the version he must be talking about. It has not been officially released, and only appears on bootlegs as far as I know.
I bet this is the first take of the song. It has that spontaneous feel.
I have also included an alternate take from Under the Red Sky and the released version from that album for comparison, plus two live versions.
“Born In Time,” Oh Mercy sessions:
“Born In Time,” alternate take 1, Oh Mercy sessions (appears on Tell Tale Signs):
“Born In Time,” alternate take 2, Oh Mercy sessions (appears on Tell Tale Signs):
“Born In Time,” Oh Mercy sessions:
“Born In Time,” Under the Red Sky sessions (alternate take):
“Born In Time,” Under the Red Sky sessions (versions used on album):
“Born in Time,” April 13, 1997, live, Recreation Center, Wayne, New Jersey, USA
“Born in Time,” 1998, live, Jersey City, New Jersey:
“Psychic Trauma” off the upcoming Cloud Nothings’ album, Here and Nowhere Else.
Plus check out “I’m Not Part Of Me,” also off the album.
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Wild Beast’s FACT mix includes a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hey That’s No Way to Say Goodbye.”
Here’s the mix info:
John Tavener: The Lamb
Wild Beasts: Hey That’s No Way to Say Goodbye (Leonard Cohen cover)
Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd: Why do you Love me
Siegfried Sasson: The Dug Out, Everyone Sang
Haddaway: What is Love
The Blue Nile: Over the Hillside
Lil B: Flowers Rise (instrumental)
The Books: Be Good to Them Always
Burzum: Tour Around the Transcendental Columns of Singularity
Shirley Collins: Brigg Fair
Allan Holdsworth: Tokyo Dream (live)
Oneohtrix Point Never: Child Soldier
Kate Bush: Sexual Healing (phone recording)
Talk Talk: I Believe In You
Cocteau Twins: Cherry-Coloured Funk
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New video from Haim for “If I Could Change Your Mind” off Days Are Gone. Directed by Warren Fu.
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The Horrors have a new album Luminous set for a May 5, 2014 release.
Here’s a really cool track off it, “I See You,” released today.
Here’s the track listing for the album:
01 Chasing Shadows
02 First Day of Spring
03 So Now You Know
04 In and Out of Sight
05 Jealous Sun
06 Falling Star
07 I See You
08 Change Your Mind
09 Mine and Yours
10 Sleepwalk
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For Record Store Day this year a live Neil Young and Crazy Horse show, Cow Palace 1986, will be released on vinyl, according to Music Times and exclaim.ca.
Record Store Day takes place April 19 this year.
The November 21, 1986 performance took place at the Cow Palace in Daily City, California, just south of San Francisco.
The show was recorded for radio broadcast by KLOS FM in LA, and has previously been released as a bootleg.
I don’t have a list of the songs being included on the Record Store Day release, but below is the track listing from one of the bootlegs.
Mr Soul (Live)
When You Dance, I Can Really Love (Live)
Down By The River (Live)
Too Lonely (Live)
Heart Of Gold (Live)
After The Goldrush (Live)
Inca Queen (Live)
Drive Back (Live)
Opera Star (Live)
Cortez The Killer (Live)
Sample And Hold (Live)
Computer Age (Live)
Violent Side (Live)
Mideast Vacation (Live)
Long Walk Home (Live)
The Needle And The Damage Done (Live)
When Your Lonely Heart Breaks (Live)
Around The World (Live)
Powderfinger (Live)
Like A Hurricane (Live)
Hey Hey, My My (Live)
Prisoners Of Rock ‘N’ Roll (Live)
Check it out.
Part One:
Part Two:
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