Wilco is one of our favorite bands.
Here are covers by Wilco, Jeff Tweedy, collaborations.. and a song about Bob Dylan’s beard!
Wilco – Simple Twist of Fate (Solid Sound – MASS MoCA – June 21, 2013):
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Wilco – I Shall Be Released (Live Toronto), The Bob Dylan classic made famous by The Band is performed with panache by Jeff Tweedy and his band:
Continue reading Wilco, Jeff Tweedy and Bob Dylan – covers and collaborations
“…one of the most important, coherent and fulfilling Bob Dylan albums ever released.”
– David Fricke (Rolling Stone Magazine)
The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969–1971) is an album of unreleased recordings, demo recordings, alternative takes mostly from Bob Dylan’s 1970 albums Self Portrait and New Morning, and a couple of live tracks from the Isle of Wight Festival (1969), released on August 27, 2013. It is the latest addition in the series of official “bootleg” recordings issued by Columbia Records.
Pretty Saro (official video)
The cover is new artwork by Bob Dylan. The liner notes have been written by Greil Marcus, who wrote the original Self Portrait review for Rolling Stone that infamously asked, “What is this shit?”. Also included is an extensive essay from journalist Michael Simmons. The set also contains rare photographs of that era from John Cohen and Al Clayton.
“For fans, this is more than a curiosity, it’s an indispensable addition to the catalog.”
– Thom Jurek (allmusic)
Wow! Right?
We have the original album and a lot of us has collected bootlegs over many years, and the big question is: Are there something in this new release that we haven’t heard before?
From Wikipedia:
“During his world tour of 1965–66, Dylan was backed by a five-member rock group, the Hawks, who would subsequently become famous as the Band. After Dylan was injured in a motorcycle accident in July 1966, the Hawks’ members gravitated to the vicinity of Dylan’s home in the Woodstock area to collaborate with him on music and film projects. While Dylan was concealed from the public’s gaze during an extended period of convalescence in 1967, they recorded more than 100 tracks together, comprising original compositions, contemporary covers and traditional material. Dylan’s new style of writing moved away from the urban sensibility and extended narratives that had characterized his most recent albums,Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde, toward songs that were more intimate and which drew on many styles of traditional American music. While some of the basement songs are humorous, others dwell on nothingness, betrayal and a quest for salvation. In general, they possess a rootsy quality anticipating the Americana genre. For some critics, the songs onThe Basement Tapes, which circulated widely in unofficial form, mounted a major stylistic challenge to rock music in the late sixties.”
In my view, the two most comprehensive un-official releases have been:
Bob Dylan: A Tree with roots
From Bobsboots:
“A complete overhaul of the basement tapes. 128 tracks in total, completely remastered with a major leap forward in sound quality compared to the original 5CD set. Put together in a much more organized and logical sequence. High quality packaging, 2 booklets, extensive original source notes and reprints of important press coverage. Original pressing limited to 500 copies.”
Continue reading The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 – First impressions
The artists are “la staa” the Bob piece and “Stik” made the one on the windmill both as part of the project UTSIRART.
“The island famously known as one of Europe’s best places for bird spotting, will become one of the most windblown and picturesque backdrops for modern European street art. You can reach Utsira by ferry from Haugesund, only few hours away from the streetart mekka Stavanger – known for its famous NUART FESTIVAL. The artists will be working between August 1st and 5th, but you can enjoy the art for months to come!'”
– UTSIRART’s facebook page
Bob Dylan 1
Bob Dylan 2
Bruce Springsteen
Continue reading New Bob Dylan street art found at Utsira island in Norway
It’s not enough. By anyone else’s standards, of course, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Live/1975-85 is an embarrassment of riches — five albums and ten years’ worth of barroom, hockey-arena and baseball-stadium dynamite; greatest hits, ace covers, love songs, work songs, out-of-work songs — the ultimate rock-concert experience of the past decade finally packaged for living-room consumption, a special gift of thanks to the fans who shared those 1001 nights of stomp & sweat and the best possible consolation prize for the poor bastards who could never get tickets.
~David Fricke – rollingstone.com“Jon Landau sent a four-song cassette of ‘Born in the U.S.A.‘, ‘Seeds’, ‘The River‘ and ‘War‘ down to my house with a note attached saying he ‘thought we might have something here’. Over the following months we listened to 10 years of tapes, the music did the talkin’, and this album and its story began to emerge. We hope you have as much fun with it as we did. I’d like to thank Jon for his friendship and perseverance and the E Street Band for 1,001 nights of comradeship and good rockin’. They’re all about the best bunch of people you can have at your side when you’re goin’ on a long drive.”
– Bruce Springsteen (liner notes)
Live/1975–85 is a live album by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. It consists of 40 tracks recorded at various concerts between 1975 and 1985. It was released as a box set with either five vinyl records, three cassettes, or three CDs. There was also a record club only release which came on three 8-track cartridges, which is extremely hard to find.
Thunder Road – October 18, 1975 at The Roxy Theatre:
