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Audio: Hear The New Basement Tapes Band Play Unreleased Version of Bob Dylan’s ‘Hidee Hidee Ho’

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Jenny Eliscu talks to Elvis Costello and others about The New Basement Tapes album. Includes an unreleased version of “Hidee Hidee Ho” that ELvis sings.

The New Basement Tapes – Live on the Sirius XM, November 14, 2014.

Recorded on November 14, 2014 in Hollywood, CA. Featuring:
Elvis Costello – piano, Rhiannon Giddens – fiddle, vocals, Taylor Goldsmith – bass, vocals, Jim James – guitar, vocals, Marcus Mumford – guitar, vocals, Jay Bellerose – drums, Griffin Goldsmith – drums. Setlist:
00:00 intro
02:01 Diamond Ring (Goldsmith)
05:48 interview 1
10:37 Hidee Hidee Ho – “bootleg volume 2 version” (Costello)
12:25 interview 2
16:00 Down On The Bottom (James)
20:44 interview 3
29:31When I Get My Hands On You (Mumford)
32:53 interview 4
38:27 Lost On The River #20 (Giddens)
42:50 outro

Plus on November 12, 2014 the group did this radio performance:

00:00 Married To My Hack (Costello)
02:41 When I Get My Hands On You (Mumford)
05:48 Florida Key (Goldsmith)
10:01 Spanish Mary (Giddens)
15:27 Down On The Bottom (James)
19:42 Kansas City (Mumford)

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Audio: Bob Dylan & George Harrison Cover ‘Yesterday’ – May 1970

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Here’s Bob Dylan singing “Yestersay” with George Harrison on guitar.

This was recorded May 1, 1970 at Columbia Studios in New York.

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Audio: The Juliana Hatfield Three Return With ‘If I Could’

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Earlier this year Juliana Hatfield let it be known that she had regrouped her mid-90s trio, The Juliana Hatfield Three, the group that made the excellent 1993 album Become What You Are.

The song is off a new crowdfunded album, Whatever, My Love, and it will be released early next year.

Here’s a note from Hatfield that she posted on the Pledgemusic page for the crowdfunding of the album:

Todd, Dean, and I have just begun recording with the lovely and talented Tom Beaujour (who worked with me and Matthew [Caws] on the Minor Alps album) at the Nuthouse in Hoboken, New Jersey, and so far it is going great. Some of you may have previously heard some version of some of the songs we are working on. For example, one of the songs we are exploring is “If I Could”. We have always loved this song but there have only ever been demos of it; it has never been properly finished or produced. There are multiple attempted versions of it but the nut has never been quite cracked, and this has always sort of haunted me. Now I feel like I finally have the chance to get it right with Todd and Dean.
We are also exploring electricized band versions of a couple of the punchier acoustic home-recorded songs from my last album, “Wild Animals”. And there will be some other surprises.

Stay tuned for updates – we will keep in touch during the recording and mixing and in-between processes with photos, videos, and music.

Thank you so very much for being here with us to help us and encourage us and support us.

JH3 2014

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Video: The Hold Steady Cover Neil Young’s ‘Don’t Let It Bring You Down’ – Dec. 2014

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The Hold Steady, Horseshoe Tavern, Dec. 10, 2014

Last night, December 10, 2014, playing a gig at Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern, The Hold Steady covered Neil Young’s classic “Don’t Let It Bring You Down.”

The clip also includes the group’s own “Constructive Summer.”

Plus a clip of “Knuckles”:

And two songs – “Spinners” and a cover of Kiss’ “Hard Luck Woman” – from Collective Arts Black Box Sessions:

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Audio: Frank Sinatra & Bob Dylan Sing the Songs From ‘Shadows In The Night’

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Now that we know the songs that will be on Bob Dylan’s next album, Shadows In The Night, all of which are best known for Frank Sinatra’s recordings of them in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. I thought it would be fun to hear Sinatra’s versions, along with versions of three of them by Dylan.

In addition to Dylan’s version of “Full Moon And Empty Arms,” which was officially made available online last May, I’ve included a live version of “Stay With Me” from one of the Beacon Theater shows, and two versions of “That Lucky Old Sun,” one with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers backing Dylan.

In a statement Bob Dylan said this about the upcoming album: “It was a real privilege to make this album. I’ve wanted to do something like this for a long time but was never brave enough to approach 30-piece complicated arrangements and refine them down for a 5-piece band. That’s the key to all these performances. We knew these songs extremely well. It was all done live. Maybe one or two takes. No overdubbing. No vocal booths. No headphones. No separate tracking, and, for the most part, mixed as it was recorded. I don’t see myself as covering these songs in any way. They’ve been covered enough. Buried, as a matter a fact. What me and my band are basically doing is uncovering them. Lifting them out of the grave and bringing them into the light of day.”

Enjoy.

Frank Sinatra, “I’m A Fool To Love You”:

Frank Sinatra, “The Night We Called It A Day”:

Frank Sinatra, “Stay WIth Me”:

Bob Dylan, “Stay With Me,” live at the Beacon Theater, NYC, Nov. 29, 2014:

Frank Sinatra, “Autumn Leaves”:

Frank Sinatra, “Why Try To Change Me Now”:

Frank Sinatra, “Some Enchanted Evening”:

Frank Sinatra, “Full Moon And Empty Arms”:

Bob Dylan, “Full Moon And Empty Arms”:

Frank Sinatra, “Where Are You?:

Frank Sinatra, “What’ll I Do”:

Frank Sinatra, “That Lucky Old Sun”:

Bob Dylan & Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, live, True Confessions Tour, 1986:

That Lucky Old Sun by Bob Dylan and Tom Petty on Grooveshark

Bob Dylan, “That Lucky Old Sun,” live, Irvine Meadows Amphitheate, Irvine, CA, June 29, 2000:

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Video: The Story Of Bob Dylan’s ‘Basement Tapes’ – 24 Minute Mini-Documentary

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This is excellent. Greil Marcus, Sid Griffin and others tell the story of Bob Dylan’s “Basement Tapes.”

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Audio/Video: Bob Dylan at the Beacon – ‘Pay In Blood,’ ‘Early Roman Kings’ & 6 More

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Murky, but it is Dylan.

Bob Dylan performed in New York at the Beacon Theater over the course of the last week or so.

Here are audio/video files from a few shows. The audio is quite good.

Enjoy.

“Beyond Here Lies Nothing,” Nov. 29, 2014 show:

Another fan video.

“Beyond Here Lies Nothing,” Nov. 29, 2014 show:

“Early Roman Kings,” Nov. 29, 2014 show (note that the video itself is mislabeled):

“Waiting For You” (excerpt), Nov. 29, 2014 show:

“Pay In Blood,” Dec. 2014 show:

“Tangled Up In Blue,” Nov. 29, 2014 show:

“Love Sick,” Dec. 2014 show:

“Simple Twist Of Fate,” Nov. 29, 2014 show:

Another fan video:

“Simple Twist Of Fate,” Nov. 29, 2014 show:

“Forgetful Heart,” Nov. 29, 2014 show:

“Long And Wasted Years”:

“Blowin’ In The Wind,” Nov. 29, 2014 show:

“Blowin’ In The Wind,” Dec. 2, 2013 show:

“Stay With Me,” Nov. 29, 2014 show:

“Stay With Me,” December 3, 2014 show:

Audio: PJ Harvey’s Version of Bob Dylan’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited’

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Cool version of “Highway 61 Revisited” off PJ Harvey’s second album, Rid Of Me.

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Audio: Hear American Music Club Cover Bob Dylan’s ‘Queen Jane Approximately’

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In 2005 Uncut magazine included a CD, Highway 61 Revisited Revisited, of Bob Dylan covers with one of their issues, and one of those covers, “Queen Jane Approximately,” was by the great San Francisco band, American Music Club.

Check it out:

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Video: Watch Bob Dylan’s Classic Dec. 3, 1965 San Francisco Press Conference

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Forty-nine years ago, on Friday, December 3, 1965, this Bob Dylan press conference was recorded at KQED’s studios in San Francisco.

The press conference happened at a key point in Dylan’s career. He was now a rock star. “Like A Rolling Stone” was a hit and had been on the radio the past summer into fall. Highway 61 Revisited had been released three months earlier, in August.

Dylan was in the Bay Area to perform for two nights — Dec. 3 and Dec. 4 — at the Berkeley Community Theater.

The man who brings Dylan out is Ralph J. Gleason, who at the time was the jazz and pop critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, and a fan of Dylan. Gleason wrote this cover story for Ramparts magazine. It ran in the March 1966 issue.

There’s some great details about the press conference here, plus photos.

Bob Dylan press conference, part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Part 4:

Part 5:

Part 6:

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