Portishead’s Beth Gibbons sings on UK metal band Gonga’s cover of the Black Sabbath song “Black Sabbath.”
The video (see below) uses footage from the 1963 horror film, “Black Sabbath.”
How conceptual.
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Here’s Warner Bros. press release on the upcoming “Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set” of Neil Young’s A Letter Home, which is priced at $109.98 and includes two songs not on the “standard edition” that will sell for $13.99.
April 24, 2014 – (Burbank, CA.) – Neil Young will release a CD, digital album and a Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set of his recent vinyl album A Letter Home on Reprise Records on May 27th. The box set is a beautifully packaged expanded version of the vinyl edition first released on April 18th by Jack White’s Third Man Records. The Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set will also contain a Download card for the hi-res Audiophile version of the album. Click here to pre-order A Letter Home. Click here to view the album cover art. Click here to view the Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set package.
Young recorded the collection of covers with White on a refurbished 1947 Voice-O-Graph recording booth at Third Man’s Nashville headquarters. Imagine a very simple recording studio not much larger than a phone booth and you’ll get the idea. He describes the album as “an unheard collection of rediscovered songs from the past recorded on ancient electro-mechanical technology captures and unleashes the essence of something that could have been gone forever.” Recorded live to track to one-track, mono, the album has an inherent warm, primitive feel of a vintage Folkways recording,
As for the track-listing, Young chose songs that have personal meaning for him, such as British folk artist Bert Jansch’s “Needle of Death” (which inspired Young to write 1972’s “Needle and the Damage Done”), Bob Dylan’s “Girl from the North Country,” Willie Nelson’s “Crazy,” Don Everly’s “I Wonder If I Care as Much,” Bruce Springsteen’s “My Home Town,” and many others. Click here to watch a video for “Needle of Death”
The album begins with Neil recording a spoken letter to his late mother, informing her of his personal and present state of affairs which sets the tone and atmosphere for the duration of the album. He does this once again at the beginning of Side 2 in a way which could explain why he’s selected these particular songs to record. In essence, this presentation is, as its title implies, A Letter Home from Neil. This is a deeply personal and expressive listening experience which is as real and raw emotionally as it is sonically and yet light of touch in its form and flow.
Reprise will release the complete box set, which includes a special “direct feed from the booth” audiophile vinyl version and a DVD that captured the original electro-mechanical process, along with comments from the producers and recording engineers. It includes:
Standard audio LP pressed on 180-gram black vinyl
Audiophile LP pressed on 180-gram black vinyl
Standard audio CD
DVD with footage from the recording
12″ x 12″, 32-page full color booklet
Download card for hi-res Audiophile version of album
Seven 6″ vinyl discs pressed on clear vinyl. The 7th disc of this set features a version of Dylan’s
“Blowin’ In The Wind” backed with an alternate take / arrangement of “Crazy”
The track-listing for A Letter Home is as follows:
A Letter Home intro
Changes (Phil Ochs)
Girl from the North Country (Bob Dylan)
Needle of Death (Bert Jansch)
Early Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot)
Crazy (Willie Nelson)
Reason to Believe (Tim Hardin)
On the Road Again (Willie Nelson)
If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot)
Since I Met You Baby (Ivory Joe Hunter)
My Hometown (Bruce Springsteen)
I Wonder If I Care as Much (Don Everly)
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Earlier today Neil Young officially released the “Needle of Death” video that has appeared sporadically on YouTube since it was shown at a the Celebration of Bert Jansch at The Royal Festival Hall on December 3, 2013.
“Needle of Death,” a Jansch composition that influenced Young when he wrote “The Needle and the Damage Done,” appears on Young’s new album, A Letter Home.
The video shows Young recording the song at Jack White’s Third Man Records in the 1947 Voice-o-Graph booth. Jack White co-produced A Letter Home with Young, or as it says on the album’s back cover, “reproduced.”
When he finishes singing the song, Young steos out of the Voice-o-Graph booth and White says to him, “Sounded good,” to which Young replies, “It’s a heavy song, very heavy song.”
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Last November Wire played a 20 minute set — four songs — at KEXP in Seattle and included a new song, “Blogging.”
Check it out.
Setlist: Wire, KEXP studios, Seattle, November 13, 2013
1. “Marooned”
2. “Blogging”
3. “Adore Your Island”
4. “Stealth Of A Stork”
Thanks Slicing Up Eyeballs!
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The Hold Steady performed at the Fuzz 92.1 Radio Theater, Scranton, PA, USA on April 6, 2014.
Check these out.
“Almost Everything”:
“You Can Make Him Like You”:
“The Only Thing”:
“The Ambassador”:
“Big City”:
“Spinners”:
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Fifty-two years ago, on April 24, 1962, Bob Dylan entered Columbia Studio A in New York and began recording his second album, the album that would become The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.
That day he recorded versions of “I’m Going to New Orleans,” “Sally Gal,” “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie,” Corrina, Corrina,” “The Death of Emmett Till,” “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues” and “(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle” according to Clinton Heylin’s “Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions [1960 – 1994].”
Here are versions of the songs he cut that day. Some may have been cut at later sessions as in some cases he recorded the same song at more than one session.
“I’m Going to New Orleans”:
“Sally Gal”:
“Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie”:
“Corrina, Corrina”:
“The Death Of Emmett Till” (Studio Outtake):
“Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues” (From withdrawn version of the LP):
“(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle”:
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So today I’ve got some clips from Neil Young’s show in Chicago, plus more from his Dallas shows. If you missed my Dallas show post, you can check it out here.
Neil Young at the Chicago Theater, Chicago IL., April 22, 2014.
“Reason To Believe”:
“Changes”:
“Harvest”
“Old Man”:
“A Man Needs A Maid”:
“Ohio”:
“Southern Man”:
“Mr. Soul”:
Another view of “Mr. Soul”:
“Someday”:
“Heart of Gold”:
“If You Could Read My Mind”:
Neil Young at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas TX on April 18, 2014 Dallas, TX.
“From Hank to Hendrix”:
Plus more from the April 17, 2014 show in Dallas at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.
“Mellow My Mind”:
“On The Way Home” & “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”:
“Love In Mind”:
“Are You Ready For the Country?”:
“Someday”:
“Changes”:
“Harvest”:
“A Man Needs A Maid”:
“If You Could Read My Mind”:
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Knox, the duo that consists of Nic and Eliza Coolidge, are back with this cool track, “Redline.”
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Courtney Love is back with a new song, “You Know My Name.
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Bob Dylan at the Peabody Opera House in St. Louis, MO one year ago, April 23, 2013.
He’s in quite good voice for this show.
Enjoy.
“Things Have Changed”:
“High Water (For Charley Patton)”:
“Tangled Up In Blue”:
“Blind Willie McTell”:
“What Good Am I?”:
“Summer Days”:
“All ALong the Watchtower”:
“Ballad of a Thin Man”:
Things Have Changed
Love Sick
High Water (For Charley Patton)
Soon after Midnight
Early Roman Kings
Tangled Up in Blue
Pay in Blood
Visions of Johanna
Spirit on the Water
Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
Blind Willie McTell
What Good Am I?
Summer Days
Scarlet Town
All Along the Watchtower
Encore:
Ballad of a Thin Man
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