There’s a lot to like about Chimes of Freedom – the Amnesty International benefit album with more than 70 covers of Bob Dylan songs. Its sprawl means that artists have to reach deep into his catalog, so Adele’s version of “Make You Feel My Love” is fresh because she reinvents it as a soulful piano [...]
Tag Archives: Bob Dylan
Always More Bob
July 27, 2011 – 5:33 pm
At this point, it feels a little obsessive to scrutinize yet another Bob Dylan show. Still, it’s hard not to because there’s always something there worth thinking about afterwards, even in a show as conventional as last night’s at the Lakefront Arena. The setlist was as close to a greatest hits set as I’ve seen [...]
Bob Dylan to New Orleans; Lil Wayne to Wait
June 3, 2011 – 9:41 am
Bob Dylan will return to New Orleans to play the UNO Lakefront Arena on Tuesday, July 26 with Leon Russell opening. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 10 at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster. In other music news, Lil Wayne made the audience at the New Orleans Arena repeat the release date for the long-awaited release [...]
J. the Savage: Free MP3 of “You Knew It But You Still Had To Do It”
April 27, 2011 – 9:32 pm
While the cover of J. the Savage’s latest offering Very Same Dream recalls Milton Glaser’s iconic 1967 poster of Bob Dylan, his current single “You Knew It But You Still Had to Do It” calls to mind the raucous jangle of Dylan’s late ‘70s outings with the Rolling Thunder Revue. To ring in the first [...]
A Seasonal Desk-Clearing
December 23, 2010 – 1:36 pm
This may continue into next week, but I’ve got CDs here that I had the best intentions of writing about but never made it to somehow, starting with: Bob Dylan: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (Columbia/Legacy): If you want to hear this two disc set as Bob becoming Bob, go for it, but it’s not that [...]
Hurray for the Riff Raff Covers Hank Williams and Bob Dylan
September 17, 2010 – 12:00 pm
Recently, Hurray for the Riff Raff released a video of the band covering Hank Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” a song that suits the band perfectly. They also recorded a version of Bob Dylan’s “Seven Curses” from The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3, which is also lovely and melancholy due to the band’s fragile [...]
Before it Was Trendy
January 7, 2010 – 10:14 am
Shaggy beards seem to be very in, but Steve Earle – who we saw yesterday on Frenchmen as part of the Treme shoot – has been rocking one for a while now. He’s easy to spot; he’s the one who looks like David Cross playing Allen Ginsberg in I’m Not There.
Carla Bley: “Carla’s Christmas Carols”
December 21, 2009 – 2:26 pm
Jazz composer Carla Bley’s spent a career examining American vernacular music, so it’s just as weirdly inevitable that she’d eventually get around to Christmas music as it was for Bob Dylan. The results on Carla’s Christmas Carols are just as transforming as Dylan’s, though with more melodic results. Obviously. The album is a collaboration with [...]
Bob on Bob
December 5, 2009 – 3:34 pm
In the new issue, I reviewed Bob Dylan’s Christmas in the Heart, which I think has received a lot of cheap negative reviews based on the simple premise that it’s funny and bad if someone with his voice sings Christmas songs. Jody Rosen answers the “Is it a joke?” question here, writing: Christmas in the [...]
Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne
November 1, 2009 – 12:06 am
It takes a rare talent to make a hit out of a song that tells the listener “everyone you know / will die,” but “Do You Realize” changed the Flaming Lips’ profile in 2002. Really though, it and the album it came from, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, were the natural follow-ups to 1999’s The [...]
