This is a cool version of Tim Buckley’s “Song To The Siren,” as sung by Robert Plant.
I don’t know when or where this took place. If you know, let me know.
But it’s great.
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Or watch an arty video with audio of me reading from the novel here.
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Pearl Jam delivered a storming version of Bob Dylan’s “All ALong The Watchtower” at First Direct Arena in Leeds, England on July 8, 2014.
Check it out:
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Download free songs by the Mountain Goats and Superchunk and others here.
Here’s the press release from Merge:
Today, Google Play premiered a new documentary in the US about Merge Records. In candid, amusing interviews, Mac, Laura, Merge musicians, and friends of the label talk about its evolution and unwavering focus on its artists. Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, author of the A Series of Unfortunate Events books—and sometime member of The Magnetic Fields—narrates the documentary.
Also, music fans in the US are invited to download 25 free Merge tracks, including five new and exclusive recordings from Superchunk, The Mountain Goats, Telekinesis, Saint Rich, and Hiss Golden Messenger.
Visit Google Play now to watch the videos and download the free tracks (US only). In addition to a selection of Merge album tracks, Superchunk, The Mountain Goats, Telekinesis, Saint Rich, and Hiss Golden Messenger each cover songs originally made popular by fellow Merge artists Spoon, The Magnetic Fields, Wye Oak, Mikal Cronin, and American Music Club. All 25 tracks will be available to download for free until August 5. Google Play also filmed some behind-the-scenes footage of the making of several of these “Merge on Merge” recordings.
The unique cover art accompanying the five new tracks was designed by Dave Eggers, popular author, philanthropist, and founder of the 826 Valencia literacy project.
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The section with Jack White starts 36 minutes into the show and includes a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Meet Me In The Morning.”
Setlist:
High Ball Stepper
Lazaretto
Missing Pieces
Love Interruption
The Same Boy You’ve Always Known (The White Stripes)
Just One Drink
Icky Thump
I’m Sorry (Flat Duo Jets cover)
Ball and Biscuit (The White Stripes)
Meet Me In The Morning (Bob Dylan cover)
Top Yourself (The Raconteurs)
You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You’re Told) (The White Stripes)
Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes)
Plus here’s White and Dylan from their Sept. 19, 2007 performance at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville:
Bob Dylan and Jack White play “Ball & Biscuit” in March 2004:
Thanks Consequence Of Sound!
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.
And if you’re interested the book is now available at Amazon.
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Beck went from “E-Pro” into Prince’s “1999” last week at the Montreal International Jazz Festival.
Sean Lennon on cowbell.
Beck Covers Prince’s ‘1999’:
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Accompanied by acoustic guitar, Boy George performed an unexpectedly great version of “It Ain’t Me Babe” on June 21, 2014 at the En Lefko Festival in Athens, Greece.
One of the covers from a bootleg Basement Tapes collection.
On June 26, 1975, 39 years ago, Columbia released a version of The Basement Tapes.
The two album set contained 24 songs from the more than 100 songs that Bob Dylan and The Band recorded during the informal ‘Basement Tapes’ sessions.
Many of the recordings that didn’t make it onto the official release, are wonderful.
Yeah, the fidelity from the bootlegs isn’t so great, but the vibe is incredible.
Here are ten gems.
“Big River”:
“I Am Your Teenage Prayer”:
“I Don’t Hurt Anymore”:
“I Can’t Make It Alone”:
“Cool Water”:
“Joshua Gone Barbados”:
“Belchezaar 1 & 2”:
“Waltzing With Sin”:
“The Hills Of Mexico”:
“The French Girl” Take 2:
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An obscure British band that covered Dylan’s masterpiece in 1965.
One of Dylan’s many incredible songs is “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue.”
Unlike “Fourth Time Around,” which I posted about the other day and which had few covers, many, many artists have covered “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue.” The Byrds even covered it twice.
Below are some pretty incredible versions of the song including both of those versions by The Byrds.
Them with Van Morrison:
Bob Dylan, April 13, 1966, Sydney, Australia:
Marianne Faithful:
Link Wray:
Joni Mitchell:
Echo and the Bunnymen:
Hugh Masekela:
Grateful Dead, 1966:
Bonnie Raitt:
The Animals:
13th Floor Elevators:
Judy Collins:
Leon Russell:
Joan Baez:
The Cops and Robbers, cool 1965 version:
Bryan Ferry:
The Byrd, 1965 version:
The Byrds, 1969 version:
Bob Dylan, May 16, Sheffield, England:
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There are several stories circulating about Bob Dylan’s “Fourth Time Around.”
One version: According to Al Kooper: “I said to Dylan “it sounds so much like ‘Norwegian Wood,'” and he said “actually ‘Norwegian Wood’ sounds a lot like this! I’m afraid they took it from me and now I feel like I have to record it y’know.” Apparently he’d played it for them and they’d nicked it. I asked if he was worried about getting sued and he said, “nah, the Beatles could never sue me.”
Another version from Clinton Heylin:
The first week of December 1965 saw The Beatles release their finest collection to date, Rubber Soul. Though the United States edition was again pruned of several songs on the British original, one song that stayed the course had a largely Lennon lyric. Originally known as This Bird Has Flown, it was released as Norwegian Wood. The song was an important one to Lennon (he later said of it, “I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about an affair. But in such a smokescreen way that you couldn’t tell”). For the first time he was writing about something deeply personal – his clandestine affair with attractive journalist Maureen Cleave, whom Dylan also knew – using the kind of code the American had made something of a trademark.
Dylan undoubtedly recognized the influence and decided at some point to acknowledge it with his own version of “This Bird Has Flown.” For the past 18 months he had enjoyed dropping in the occasional lyrical nod with a wink to his new-found friends – a gesture they reciprocated on With A Little Help From My Friends in 1967. But Fourth Time Around was also a way of showing he could raise the bar lyrically on Lennon, the one Beatle to have aspirations beyond being a pop poet. Fourth Time Around is an altogether darker, more disturbing portrait of an affair, though it emulates Norwegian Wood in its circular melody and structure.
In any case, I’ve always dug “Fourth Time Around.”
Turns out very few artists have covered it. I found two that are worth a listen, and I’ve also included a bunch live versions by Dylan himself.
April 13, 1966, Sydney, Australia:
Yo La Tengo:
April 20, 1966, Melbourne, Australia:
Chris Whitley:
May 5, 1966: Dublin, Ireland:
Three versions by Robyn Hitchcock:
May 16, 1966, Sheffield, England:
May 26, 1966, Royal Albert Hall, London:
May 27, 1966, Royal ALbert Hall, London:
Bob Dylan, April 18, 1999:
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