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Audio: Ryan Adams Drops 3-Song ‘Jacksonville’ On Us – Listen Right Now!

Today Ryan Adams released the latest in his PAX-AM Singles Series. “Jacksonville” is a three-song, 10-minute EP.

There’s the title track plus “I Keep Running” and “Walkedypants.”

Check it out.

Video: Joan Baez Sings Bob Dylan’s ‘It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue’ – Netherlands, Sept. 13, 2014

Joan Baez sings the Bob Dylan classic, “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” at TakeRoot De Oosterpoort, Groningen, Netherlands on September 13, 2014.

Her voice is still as beautiful as ever.

[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in the new issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]

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Audio: Listen to Jeff Tweedy’s Lastest Album, ‘Sukierae,’ Right Now!

Over at NPR’s “First Listen” they’re streaming Jeff Tweedy’s latest album, Sukierae.

Check it out here.

[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in the new issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]

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Video: Neil Young Sings ‘Standing In The Light Of Love’ with Revised Political Lyrics at Farm Aid + ‘Heart Of Gold’

Neil Young at Farm Aid 2014.

Yesterday Neil Young played a new version of an old song, “Standing In The Light Of Love,” at Farm Aid 2014.

According to Thrasher’s Wheat, a version of the song was first played in 2001, and Young began playing it earlier this year in Europe.

The lyrics to the 2014 version of the song have been overhauled somewhat to reflect Young’s anger at big oil and corporate America for destroying the earth.

This is very powerful.

The fan who shot the video was using a cell phone so the image is sideways, but the sound is awesome and the video is great too.

Just turn your head, or turn your computer.

“Standing In The Light Of Love”:

“Heart Of Gold”:

“Stand In The Light Of Love”:

Lyrics to “Stand In The Light Of Love”:

In a world with so much anger
In a world with so much hate

Stand in the light of love

In a world with so much sadness
How will you feel at Heaven’s Gate

Stand in the light of love

Rising from the deep blue sea
Drowning in the long parade
Still you will find the answer
Standing in the light of love

Stand in the light of love

By the wealth of corporations
Must the earth bow down to greed?

Stand in the light of love

In a world controlled by oil
How much power do they need?

stand in the light of love

Drowning in the deep blue sea
Still you need not be afraid
For you will find the answer
Standing in the light of love

Standing in the light of love

[instrumental]

Stand in the light of love
Stand in the light of love

Every day the earth is damaged
In the endless search for oil

Stand in the light of love

Ancient ways of life are broken
As we suck it from the soil

Stand in the light of love

Swimming in the deep blue sea
Drowning in the long parade
Still you need not be afraid
Standing in the light of love

Stand in the light of love

Stand in the light of love

I don’t want to get personal
And have you put me on the spot
I don’t know how you feel
But for me it’s getting hot

I got to get somewhere
I got to [unclear word] against the grain
Fighting for tomorrows children
Against the power and the pain

Standing in the light of love

Stand in the light of love

Stand in the light of love

[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in the new issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]

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Review: Rolling Stone magazine digs ‘True Love Scars’ Novel – Goldberg Compared To Lester Bangs

Rolling Stone TLS review

In a review of my novel, True Love Scars, in the new Rolling Stone (Taylor Swift on the cover), reviewer Colin Fleming compares me to Lester Bangs!

Too much!

Here’s the review:

Getting Lost in the ‘Real’ Sixties

A veteran rock writer explores the crazy side of Sixties nostalgia

True Love Scars

Michael Goldberg Neumu

If Lester Bangs had ever published a novel, it might have read something like this frothing debut by longtime music journalist Michael Goldberg. (It’s part one of a series called The Freak Scene Dream Trilogy.)

The year is 1972, and the book’s chatterbox narrator, 19-year-old Michael Stein, is 
the kind of Sixties-besotted college kid who shaves his hair off because John Lennon and Yoko Ono did it. His quandary: trying to figure out how to reclaim the “authentic real” spirit of the 1960s as the decade fades into memory. Stein spends most of the book flashing back to one sex-and-drugs-steeped Sixties misadventure after another.

If you’ve ever obsessed over bootlegs or argued with your friends late into the night about which Beatles or Bob Dylan album is the best, True Love Scars will hit home.

Goldberg’s style recalls the rush of the earliest rock criticism. He was a senior writer at ROLLING STONE during the Eighties, and he founded Addicted to Noise,
 an important online music publication, in 1994. His intimacy with the classic records Stein fetishizes comes through again and again. Yet, unlike his protagonist, Goldberg doesn’t idealize the Sixties. Instead, he’s fascinated by the ways in which we crave authenticity.

Readers from any musical era will come away with a deeper appreciation of how nostalgia can shape our lives, for better and for worse. COLIN FLEMING

[There’s info about True Love Scars here.]

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Audio: Listen To Karen O’s New Album, ‘Crush Songs’

Right now NPR is streaming the entire Karen O solo album, Crush Songs.

This is a very lo-fi affair. It sounds like it was recorded in a bedroom to a cassette recorder, which is its charm.

Sometimes less really is more.

Hear the whole album here.

[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” There’s info about it here.]

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Audio: Hear Julian Casablancas & Voidz New Song, ‘Where No Eagles Fly’ Right Now!

Another track from The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas was debuted today on BBC Radio 6.

The song is called “Where No Eagles Fly” and you listen to it here. Jump to 45 minutes into the show and you can hear it.

“Where No Eagles Fly” is off Julian Casablancas and the Voidz upcoming album, Tyranny.

And here’s a previous track off the album.

“Human Sadness”:

[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” There’s info about it here.]

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Audio: Lucinda Williams Sings New Song, ‘East Side Of Town’ – Listen Now!

New Lucinda Williams album, Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, out September 30, 2014.

Meanwhile check out this soulful but bitter song off the album, “East Side Of Town.”

I like it a lot.

[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” There’s info about it here.]

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Exclusive: Rare ’67 Dylan Photo Plus ‘Complete Basement Tapes’ Unreleased Track List & More

Bob Dylan filming in March 1967 for “Eat The Document,” not long before the start of the “Basement Tapes” sessions. Photograph courtesy Arie de Reus.

Thirty songs that have not previously been released — either officially or on bootlegs — are part of the 138 tracks on the upcoming set, The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11, to be released November 4, 2014.

Of those 30 tracks, 13 were recorded in the “Red Room” at Bob Dylan’s house in Woodstock, where the “Basement Tapes” sessions began before moving to the Big Pink house in West Saugerries. As I previously reported, the “Red Room” was not painted red at the time the recordings were made.

The Red Room tracks: “Jelly Bean,” “Any Time,” “Hallelujah, I’ve Just Been Moved,” “My Buckets got a Hole In It,” “That’s The Breaks,” “Down By The Station,” “Edge Of the Ocean,” “Two Dollars and 99 Cents,” “Northern Claim,” Love is Only Mine,” “Pretty Mary,” “Mr. Blue” and “Roll On Train.”

In a few cases a portion of a recording has been heard before. This is so with “Bourbon Street,” which in the version to be released includes an additional four minutes of music, and “900 Miles From My Home.”

“‘900 miles’ is beautiful and not the fragment that you think it is,’ said a source who has heard the Complete Basement Tapes set. “It’s a fully realized version.”

According to my source, this is the complete list of previously unreleased tracks with asterisks marking the “Red Room” recordings:

1. Jelly Bean *
2. Any Time*
3. Hallelujah, I’ve Just Been Moved (trad, arr by Bob Dylan)*
4. My Buckets got a Hole In It (Clarence Williams)*
5. That’s The Breaks*
6. Down By the Station*
7. Edge of the Ocean *
8. Two Dollars and 99 Cents*
9. Northern Claim*
10. Love is Only Mine*
11. Pretty Mary*
12. Mr. Blue (Dewayne Blackwell)*
13. Roll On Train*
14. Will the Circle Be Unbroken
15. She’s On My Mind Again
16. I Shall be Released Take 1
17. Blowin’ in the Wind
18. One Too Many Mornings
19. A Satisfied Mind (Joe Hayes and Jack Rhodes)
20. It Ain’t Me Babe
21. If I Were a Carpenter (Tim Hardin)
22. Ain’t No More Cain (Take 1) (Trad. Arr. By Bob Dylan)
23. Ain’t No More Cain (Take 2) (Trad. Arr by Bob Dylan)
24. My Woman She’s A-Leavin’
25. Mary Lou, I love you Too
26. Dress it Up, Better Have it All
27. What’s It Gonna Be When It Comes Up
28. 900 Miles From My Home
29. Wild Wolf
30. Bourbon Street (an additional 4 minutes added to the track that has not been circulated).

Below are a some versions of songs that Dylan and The Band covered.

Hank Williams, “My Buckets Got a Hole In It”:

The Fleetwoods, “Mr. Blue”:

Porter Wagoner, “A Satisfied Mind”:

Tim Hardin, “If I Were A Carpenter”:

The Band, “Ain’t No More Cane”:

Ernest Williams & James (Iron Head) Baker, “Ain’t No More Cane On The Brazos,” 1933:

[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” There’s info about it here.]

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Audio: Bob Dylan Sings ‘Lonesome Day Blues,’ ‘Trying To Get To Heaven’ – The Tivoli, Brisbane, Australia, Aug. 27, 2014

Two more audio clips from Bob Dylan’s show at the Brisbane, Astralia club, The Tivoli, on August 27, 2014.

Plus the clips I’ve previously posted in case you missed them.

“Lonesome Day Blues”:

“Trying To Get To Heaven”:

“Thunder On The Mountain”:

“Ballad Of A Thin Man”:

“All Along The Watchtower”:

“Blowin’ In The Wind”:

Setlist:

Things Have Changed
She Belongs to Me
Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
Workingman’s Blues #2
Waiting for You
Duquesne Whistle
Pay in Blood
Tangled Up in Blue
Love Sick
High Water (For Charley Patton)
Girl From the North Country
Cry a While
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
Lonesome Day Blues
Tryin’ to Get to Heaven
Thunder on the Mountain
Ballad of a Thin Man
Encore:
All Along the Watchtower
Blowin’ in the Wind

[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” There’s info about it here.]

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