The new Lykke Li album will be released May 6, 2014, but meanwhile you can stream the whole thing over at NPR.
Go For it.
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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Audio: Bob Dylan’s ‘Source Material,’ or How to Write a Song with an Old Melody
It’s not news that Bob Dylan, like many blues and folk (and rock) musicians, based some of his songs on older songs.
But I thought it would be fun to compare the songs Dylan borrowed from, to the songs he wrote.
Below you’ll find the inspiration, followed by Dylan’s version.
I have no problem with Dylan’s approach. Because even when the melodies are the same, what Dylan does with those melodies is amazing.
When you compare, say, “Obviously Five Believers” to Memphis Minnie’s “Me and My Chauffeur Blues” you’ll see what I mean.
Enjoy!
Johnny & Jack, “Uncle John’s Bongos”:
“Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum (Dumb & Dumber)”:
Muddy Waters, “Rollin’ and Tumblin'”:
“Rollin’ and Tumblin'”:
Memphis Minnie, “Me and My Chauffeur Blues”:
“Obviously Five Believers”:
Jean Ritchie, “Nottamun Town”:
“Masters of War”:
Dominic Behan, “The Patriot Game”:
“With God On Our Side”:
The Bently Boys, “Down On Penny’s Farm”:
“Hard Times in New York”:
Also “Maggie’s Farm”:
The Chad Mitchell Singers, “The Banks of Sicily” (Dylan heard the song performed by Hamish Henderson):
“The Times They Are A-Changin'”
Joan Baez, “Mary Hamilton”:
“The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol”:
Ewan MacColl, “Lord Randall”:
“A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”:
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Audio: The Who’s Roger Daltrey & Wilko Johnson Do Bob Dylan’s ‘Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window’
On Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltry’s new album, Going Back Home, they cover Bob Dylan’s “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window,” and while this isn’t Dylan and The Band, it’s damn good all the same.
Plus here’s an older version by Wilko Johnson that I like a lot.
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Audio: Stream tUnE-yArDs New Album, ‘Nikki Nack’
Right now you can stream tUnE-yArDs new album, Nikki Nack, right here right now.
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Audio: Session #2, Bob Dylan Records ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’ 52 Years Ago – ‘Solid Road,’ ‘Milk Cow Blues,’ ‘Sally Gal’ & More
Fifty-two years ago, on April 25, 1962, the second session for The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan took place at Columbia Studio A in New York.
That day, according to Clinton Heylin’s “Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions [1960 – 1994]” the following songs were recorded.
(It’s possible that some of these were cut at a different session since Dylan rerecorded some songs on different days.)
“Solid Road (Rocks and Gravel)”:
“Let Me Die in my Footsteps”:
“Talkin’ Hava Negeilah Blues”:
“Sally Gal”:
“Baby, Please Don’t Go”:
“Milk Cow Blues” #1:
“Milk Cow Blues” #2:
“Wichita Blues” #1:
“Wichita Blues” #2:
“Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues”:
Drawings: Bob Dylan’s ‘Drawn Blank Series’ Art to Be Exhibited in New York — See Three of the Drawings Right Now
Four dozen of Bob Dylan’s “Drawn Blank Series” drawings — created between 1989 and 1992 — will be exhibited for the first time in the U.S. beginning May 8 at the Ross Art Group gallery in New York.
One of the drawings is at the top of this post.
Here are two more:
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Audio: Karen O & N.A.S.A. Cover Bob Marley’s ‘I Shot the Sheriff’
Check out this cover of Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff” by N.A.S.A. and Karen O.
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Video: Patti Smith Reads Poetry, Sings at the Greene Space – April 23, 2014
Patti Smith read poetry and sang at the Greene Space at WNYC Radio in New York last night.
The even was called “Mixing Memory and Desire: An Evening of Music, Poetry, Sound and Remembrance.”
Smith was joined by her daughter Jesse Paris Smith on piano, and multi-instrumentalist Eric Hoegemeyer.
Jesse Paris Smith and Hoegemeyer have a duo called Tree Laboratory.
Guitarist Lenny Kaye joins Patti Smith later in the performance and she performs “Wild Leaves,” “Pissing a the River” and Neil Young’s “After the Goldrush.”
“Wild Leaves”:
“Pissing in a River”:
The entire performance:
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Audio: Bryan Ferry Covers ‘Bob Dylan’s Dream’ Plus ‘Positively 4th Street’ & More
Pretty great cover of “Bob Dylan’s Dream” by Bryan Ferry off Chimes of freedom (The Songs of Bob Dylan).
“Bob Dylan’s Dream”:
And if that’s not enough, here’s Ferry’s entire 2007 album of Dylan songs, Dylanesque.
Track list:
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues 0:00
Simple Twist Of Fate 3:50
Make You Feel My Love 9:09
Times They Are A-Changin 12:31
All I Really Wanna Do 16:11
Knockin On Heavens Door 18:42
Positively 4th Street 24:55
If Not For You 28:41
Baby Let Me Follow You Down 31:22
Gates Of Eden 33:35
All Along The Wathctower 38:47
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Video: Jeff Healey & Stanley Jordan Jam Like Crazy on ‘All Along the Watchtower’ – Epic 17-minute Version
Jeff Healey and Stanley Jordan perform 17-minute version of “All Along Watchtower” in Amarillo, Texas, 1998.
This is a crazy jam.
Part one:
Part two:
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