New Tom Petty album Hypnotic Eye is due July 29, 2014.
Meanwhile here’s the first track that’s been released off it, “American Dream Plan B.”
It’s a classic Petty rocker.
Hypnotic Eye Tracklist:
01. American Dream Plan B
02. Fault Lines
03. Red River
04. Full Grown Boy
05. All You Can Carry
06. Power Drunk
07. Forgotten Man
08. Son of My Youth
09. U Get Me High
10. Burnt Out Town
11. Shadow People
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Title track from John Hiatt’s Terms Of My Surrender, due July 15, 2014.
Check it out.
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Thought it would be a blast to listen to a variety of artists covering Bob Dylan’s “Maggie’s Farm.”
Below check out versions by Rage Against the Machine, the Grateful Dead, Uncle Tupelo, The Residents, The Waterboys, Toots Hibbert, The Specials, U2, Richie Havens, Stephen Malkmus, the Charlie Daniels Band and Solomon Burke.
Plus a version by David Grisman, John Hartford and Mike Seeger.
And Bob Dylan with and without The Band.
Hope you have as much fun with these as I did.
Rage Against the Machine, “Maggie’s Farm”:
[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.]
Grateful Dead, “Maggie’s Farm,” 1987:
Toots Hibbert, “Maggie’s Farm”:
Uncle Tupelo, “Maggie’s Farm”:
Solomon Burke, “Maggie’s Farm”:
The Waterboys, “Maggie’s Farm”:
The Specials, “Maggie’s Farm”:
David Grisman, John Hartford, Mike Seeger, “Maggie’s Farm”:
The Residents, “Maggie’s Farm”:
The Charlie Daniels Band with Earl Scruggs, “Maggie’s Farm:
U2, “Maggie’s Farm,” Live at “R.D.S. Showgrounds”, Dublin, Ireland, May 17, 1986:
Richie Havens, “Maggie’s Farm”:
David Bowie, “Maggie’s Farm”:
Stephen Malkmus, “Maggie’s Farm”:
Bob Dylan and The Band, Oakland Coliseum, 1974, “Maggie’s Farm”:
Bob Dylan, “Maggie’s Farm”:
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Dig Savages new a-side, “Fuckers,” which along with the flip,a cover of Suicide’s “Dream Baby Dream,” was recorded at the group’s November 6th, 2013 performance at London’s Forum.
[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.]
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Sharon Van Etten’s Are We There is due out May 27, 2014. It just got a mindblowing review in the New Yorker.
While we wait for it we can watch Van Etten cover Bruce Springsteen’s “Drive All Night” at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ.
Plus here she talks about her connection to Springsteen.
[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.]
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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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For the fantastic video to go with the even more incredible “Dark Days” off Jolie Holland’s wonderful new album, Wine Dark Sea, footage was appropriated from an old black and white film that I can’t place.
Maybe you know it. If so, let me know.
Meanwhile, dig the sonic glory.
Thanks to Aquarium Drunkard for hipping me to his video!
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Two live versions of Bob Dylan playing “Million Miles” (off Time Out Of Mind) plus a live take on the song by Bonnie Raitt.
Bob Dylan at the Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON, Canada, October 29, 1998:
Bob Dylan at the Theater, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, January 16, 1998:
Bonnie Raitt at Amager Bio in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 21st, 2013:
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Lykke Li’s “Gunshot” is off her upcoming album, I Never Learn,” out May 5, 2014.
This is a very cool song. Can’t wait for the album.
Here are the lyrics:
Listen here
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The Black Keys’ have a new album, Turn Blue, due out May 13, 2014.
Meanwhile check out the first song off it, “Fever.”
The album was produced by Danger Mouse, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney.
It was recorded at Sunset Sound in Hollywood during the summer of 2013 with additional recording done at the Key Club in Benton Harbor, MI and Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound in Nashville in early 2014.
In a press release Patrick Carney of the Black Keys said: “We are always trying to push ourselves when we make a record—not repeat our previous work but not abandon it either. On this record, we let the songs breathe and explored moods, textures and sounds. We’re excited for the world to hear Turn Blue.”
Plus album preview teaser:
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