It’s always dangerous taking on a classic recording, which is what the Beach Boys’ God Only Knows,” which appeared on Pet Sounds, is.
Still, this low-key version by She & Him is charming.
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[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]
R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe on “CBS This Morning.”
Among other things he says it’s unlikely that R.E.M. will ever reunite. “That will never happen,” he says.
I bet they do.
And he talks about how shy he was when the band first got famous and it sounds like he’ll do a solo album at some point.
“I think I’ll sing again,” he says. “Not soon.”
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[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]
T Bone Burnett has produced Rhiannon Giddens’ debut solo album Tomorrow Is My Turn< ,/em> which is set for a February 10, 2015 release.
Giddens, of course, is a member of the New Basement Tapes band, and was a major contributor to Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes.
I like her version of “Shake Sugaree,” and “Black is the Color” is interesting.
Joan Baez, of course, recorded “Black is the Color” in the ’60s, and Bob Dylan had the line “Where black is the color, where none is the number” in “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”
I’m looking forward to hearing what Giddens does with Geeshie Wiley’s amazing “Last Kind Words.”
Check out three songs off the album.
“Black is the Color”:
“Don’t Let It Trouble Your Mind”:
“Shake Sugaree”:
Album track listing:
1
Last Kind Words (Geeshie Wiley)
4:14
2
Don’t Let It Trouble Your Mind (Dolly Parton)
3:45
3
Waterboy (Jacques Wolfe)
3:45
4
She’s Got You (Hank Cochran)
4:17
5
Up Above My Head (Sister Rosetta Tharpe)
3:09
6
Tomorrow Is My Turn (Charles Aznavour/Marcel Stellman/Yves Stéphane)
4:38
7
Black Is the Color (Traditional, arr. Rhiannon Giddens)
3:47
8
Round About the Mountain (Traditional, arr. Roland Hayes)
3:29
9
Shake Sugaree (Elizabeth Cotten)
4:25
10
O Love Is Teasin’ (Traditional, arr. Rhiannon Giddens)
4:31
11
Angel City (Rhiannon Giddens)
3:52
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[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]
The best Bob Dylan site, with the exception of Dylan’s own site, is Expecting Rain, and the man behind Expecting Rain is Norway-based Karl Erik Andersen.
This week he spoke to Ennyman’s Territory.
Read the interview here.
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[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]
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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[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]
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:
Today we get another track off the upcoming Sleater-Kinney album, No Cities To Love, out on Sub Pop January 20, 2015.
The song is “Surface Envy,” and if the previous song, “Bury Our Friends,” didn’t wake you up to the fact that Sleater-Kinney are back, this one should do the trick.
Dig it!
And if you missed it, here’s “Bury Our Friends”:
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[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]
This article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about my novel, True Love Scars, was published recently.
I think the article does a great job of conveying some of what the book is about.
Writes journalist Wallace Baine:
The period of the early 1970s isn’t just a setting for Michael Goldberg’s new novel “True Love Scars.” It’s the orientation for everything in the book, the language, the tone, the references, the narrative.
“I was trying to get at the experience of being young in that time period,” said UC Santa Cruz grad Goldberg, a long-time writer for Rolling Stone. “Not just the drugs and the sex, but the deeper stuff, trying to figure out who you are in the world. I was trying to take the rock & roll of that time and get it on the page.”
The result is an unusual story, fueled by a prose designed to evoke the rambunctious, radical music of the era, with a rhythm and poetic sensibility much more like the rock records of the time than many other novels.
And at the end of the story:
[Goldberg] talks about one scene in the book taking place on the houseboats of Sausalito. “I was listening to the Stones’ (1971 album) ‘Sticky Fingers’ over and over again while I was writing that, really trying to get the mood of that album on the page. I wanted the chapter to feel like what it was like to listen to some of those songs in that period.
“Frankly, I think the ‘sound’ of the narration is quite original. The big idea that I kept in mind as I wrote was that anything goes, that this was as if a 24-year-old and his friend went to a bar in 1975, had a few drinks and then the 24-year-old turned to his friend and said, ‘Let me tell you how my heart was broken…’”
To read the rest of the story, head here.
I’ll be doing a very special reading in the Bay Area on Dec. 13 at 3 pm. As I read, Grammy-winning experimental guitarist Henry Kaiser will improvise on guitar.
The event, titled “a post-beat happening – words + guitar,” will take place at Down Home Music in El Cerrito, CA. Be there!
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[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]
Here’s a 37 minute collaboration between Savages and Bo Ningen.
Clash Magazine reports:
Billed as a ‘simultaneous sonic poem’, the performance was a molten, volcanic flood of ideas. Taking control of London’s Oval Space venue, the collective spewed forth 37 minutes of inspiration, deeply improvisational music.
Released as ‘Words To The Blind’ via Stolen/Pop Noire, Boiler Room were on hand to film proceedings.
Savages & Bo Ningen Boiler Room London Live Set by brtvofficial
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[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]
Bob Dylan is in the midst of a three-night run at the Academy Of Music in Philadelphia. These performances are from the November 21, 2014 show.
“She Belongs To Me”:
“Duquesne Whistle”:
“Simple Twist Of Fate”:
“Blowin’ In The Wind”:
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[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]