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Calexico and Jim James Going to Acapulco


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Calexico and Jim James – Going To Acapulco

Calexico have some very fine Dylan covers. Sometimes alone and sometimes as a terrific backing band for other great artists. Today we present the collaboration, Going To Acapulco, with Jim James (My Morning jacket) and Calexico from the film, I’m Not There.

I’m Not There is a 2007 biographical musical film directed by Todd Haynes, inspired by the life and music of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Six actors depict different facets of Dylan’s public personas: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Ben Whishaw. At the start of the film, a caption reads: “Inspired by the music and the many lives of Bob Dylan”. Apart from the song credits, this is the only mention of Bob Dylan in the film.

The film tells its story using non-traditional narrative techniques, intercutting the storylines of seven different Dylan-inspired characters. The title of the film is taken from the 1967 Dylan Basement Tape recording of “I’m Not There”, a song that had not been officially released until it appeared on the film’s soundtrack album. The film received a generally favorable response, and appeared on several top ten film lists for 2007, topping the lists for The Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, Salon andThe Boston Globe. Particular praise went to Cate Blanchett for her performance, culminating in a Volpi Cup from the Venice Film Festival, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, along with an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination.

Calexico has several fine collaborations on the soundtrack.

We will start with a wonderful live version from The Newport Folk Festival in 2008.

Going To Acapulco – Calexico and Jim James (Live, August 3, 2008, Newport Folk Festival):

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Bob Dylan, Cover versions, Elvis Presley

5 songs covered by Bob Dylan & Elvis Presley

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Today it’s 80 years since The King was born.

Let’s celebrate with 5 songs made famous by Elvis Presley & later also covered by Bob Dylan.

1. Mystery Train (Herman Parker Jr.)

Bob Dylan covered this song once during the Nashville Skyline sessions in 1969 & twice during the Shot Of Love sessions in 1981.

Shot of Love outtake:
Mystery Train by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

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Bob Dylan, Cover versions

John Fullbright plays Bob Dylan

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John Fullbright @ Bergenfest 2014 photo: AllDylan
John Fullbright @ Bergenfest 2014 photo: AllDylan

John Fullbright plays Bob Dylan

John Fullbright (born April 23, 1988) is an American singer-songwriter from Bearden, Oklahoma. Fullbright is a former member of the Oklahoma Red Dirt band Turnpike Troubadours and the Mike McClure Band. While still in high school, Fullbright performed at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in the nearby town of Okemah, Oklahoma. In 2009 he released the album, Live at the Blue Door and three years later released his first studio album, From the Ground Up, which received a Grammy nomination in the category Best Americana Album. In 2014 he released the album Songs, an album that will be high on our year-end list.

John Fullbright plays Bob Dylan in a very soulful and intense way, he really feels the lyrics and has a great melodic sense. He is great both on a piano and guitar.

John Fullbright performs Dylan’s It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Recorded at the 3rd Coast Music showcase March 18, 2012):

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Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan albums, Cover versions

Bob Dylan Shadows in the night track listing and Sinatra Spotify playlist

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Bob Dylan Shadows in the night

 

“It was a real privilege to make this album. I’ve wanted to do something like this for a long time but was never brave enough to approach 30-piece complicated arrangements and refine them down for a 5-piece band. That’s the key to all these performances. We knew these songs extremely well. It was all done live. Maybe one or two takes. No overdubbing. No vocal booths. No headphones. No separate tracking, and, for the most part, mixed as it was recorded. I don’t see myself as covering these songs in any way. They’ve been covered enough. Buried, as a matter a fact. What me and my band are basically doing is uncovering them. Lifting them out of the grave and bringing them into the light of day.”
– Bob Dylan

We have finally gotten the track list to Bob Dylan’s new album!

Shadows In The Night is Bob Dylan’s newest studio album, and marks the first new music from the artist since 2012’s worldwide hit Tempest. Featuring ten tracks, the Jack Frost-produced album is the 36th studio set from Bob Dylan and marks the first new music from the artist since 2012’s worldwide hit Tempest.

I have collected  Frank Sinatra’s songs into a playlist, enjoy!

Track Listings:

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Bob Dylan, Cover versions

5 good cover versions of Bob Dylan’s Not Dark Yet

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“Not Dark Yet” is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his 1997 album Time Out of Mind and also as the first single on August 25, 1997. The song appears on the album The Passion of the Christ: Songs Inspired by The Passion of the Christ, and also features on the Wonder Boys soundtrack. It is also played in the ending part of the documentary Why We Fight.

Many people have tried to do a cover of the track, some did a good job. I have picked some of the best.

Micah P Hinson – Not Dark Yet:

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