Zimming Point's complete It's All True available

The complete Zimming Point download album It's All True, Everything You Heard is now available at zimmingpoint.com.
The album will be available on-line, for a limited time to everyone and always for registered users of zimmingpoint.com.



It's All True has been added to the Download Albums page of Dylan Cover Albums.

New in the DylanCover.com collection: Trials and Tribulations

Please Mrs. Henry (2:55)
Open The Door, Homer (3:14)
Trials and Tribulations
Trials and Tribulations
CD: Vanguard VSD-6565; 1970 (US)

I don't know much about Trials and Tribulations, the band. The common phrase name makes it difficult to search for.
The LP jacket lists the members - Sonny Wilf, Jim Harvey, John Wilf, Gene Fuchs - and the recording credits - produced by Bob Scherl, recorded at Sound Factory, Hollywood California - but there is no biographical or additional information. There are 2 covers besides the Dylan songs: Robbie Robertson's pre-The Band Stones That I Throw and Bobby Darin's Simple Song Of Freedom. The other 8 songs are originals written by John & Sonny Wilf, with Jim Harvey co-credited on one track.
The 2 Basement Tapes songs were released on a single, promo copies with the stereo/mono versions of Please Mrs. Henry are more common than the stock 45 with both songs.
The LP is typical 1970-era California folk-rock. Please Mrs. Henry leads off side-1 and Open The Door, Homer opens side-2.

New in the DylanCover.com collection: 3 a.m.

To Make You Feel My Love (4:02)
3 a.m.
Country Hits Dance Party
(various artists)
CD: Priority P2 51122; 1998 (US)

Here's a recipe for disaster:
Take a country version of one of Dylan's weaker songs (lyrically) and create a dance-mix version (my least favorite genre of Dylan covers.)
If you're waiting for me to say "but in this case it works," I can't. This is truly horrible. Avoid at all costs!
The subtitle is "Dance Mixes of Today's Country Hits." The only info I could find about 3 a.m. described them as a Canadian dance outfit. I don't recognize any of the other performers on the CD, but I know little of the dance music genre.
Available (if you dare) from amazon.com

Happy Holidays + a new Collector's Guide

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.
My mailing list is in disarray, so this will suffice as my Holiday greeting this year. Hopefully most of the long-time users of DylanCover.com still visit here occasionally.

Just in time for the season, I've added a Collector's Guide to Dylan Covers on Holiday Records.
Only 7 items to start, suggestions for additions always welcome.

100+ covers from Dylan07 contest

Over 100 mp3s of entrants to the Dylan07/MySpace covers contest can be downloaded from dylan07.com
Unfortunately the tracks are not titled or credited, and only some of the mp3s include tagged information. I will have all the song titles in the next update of the DataBase, but in some cases I cannot identify the performers.
CLICK HERE for a song & artists list.
If you submitted a track to the contest and would like to be correctly credited in the Dylan Covers DataBase, please contact me.
Thanks to JB Heinink

Kokomo's "In The Well" nears release

New Zealand band Kokomo has almost completed their long-planned Dylan album to be titled In The Well. The band hopes to release the album in late January.
More info and a sample at kokomo.co.nz
Thanks to Wilbur in the Forum.

Zimming Point songs of the week & final track-list

This week Zimming Point offers 2 new songs: I' ll Keep It With Mine and Tryin' To Get To Heaven, available at zimmingpoint.com.
Next week, two new songs: Emotionally Yours and Legionnaire's Disease.

The final track-list for the Zimming Point download album It's All True, Everything You Heard is now complete. Info and credits at zimmingpoint.com. The album will be available on-line, for a limited time to everyone and always for registered users of zimmingpoint.com. It will be added it to the Download Albums page of Dylan Cover Albums soon.

New cover: Willie Nelson

Moment Of Forever, the new album by Willie Nelson to be released 1/29/08, closes with a cover of Gotta Serve Somebody.
Thanks to Thomas Groschwald for the tip

Pre-order from:
amazon.com | amazon.co.uk | amazon.de | amazon.ca

From the DylanCover.com collection: Bonus Tracks

The three groups represented here each released a full album of Dylan covers, but these tracks do not appear on those albums.
So, if you're transferring your vinyl Dylan Cover Albums to CDR, you can add these as "Bonus Tracks"!

Blowin' In The Wind (3:13)
instrumental
The Metropolitan Pops Orchestra
Plays Instrumental Versions of Peter, Paul & Mary Favorites
LP: Metro MS-596; 1967 (US)

Produced by Alan Lorber, this album is just one catalog number before their Plays Instrumental Versions of Bob Dylan Favorites.


Just Like A Woman (3:47)
Hugo Montenegro
Colours of Love
LP: RCA LSP-4273; 1970 (US)

Hugo Montenegro's choral music Dawn Of Dylan appeared the same year as this album, perhaps Just Like A Woman was an outtake from, or inspiration for, the Dylan sessions? The 2 LPs were on different labels, so I'm not sure which came first.
Hugo recorded many albums of course, including at least one other artist tribute album, the cleverly titled "Neil's Diamonds." (Yes, I have a copy.)


Don't Think Twice (2:54)
instrumental
The Sound Symposium
Contemporary Composers Interpreted
LP: Dot DLP25909; 1969 (US)

This LP was released a few months earlier in 1969 than Bob Dylan Interpreted. The Sound Symposium had previously released a similar tribute to Paul Simon (I don't have it,) his America also appears on this LP.

Long-time users of DylanCover.com with good memories may remember the theme of this post from the Monthly Features section that appeared on Dylan Cover Albums from 2000-2006. The 2 instrumental albums here were the May 2001 Feature.
You can peruse the old features & hopefully find something interesting in the Features Archive.

Downloads & streams

• German band Francis D.D. String & Revision cover Tombstone Blues on their MySpace page, downloadable for registered users.
Thanks to Wilbur in the Forum.

• Japan's Joker777 has added 3 purchase or listen-only streams of new versions of the previously covered songs Only A Hobo, On The Road Again and Mr. Tambourine Man to his SoundClick webpage.

Zimming Point song of the week

This week Zimming Point offers 2 versions of This Wheel's On Fire, available at zimmingpoint.com.
Next week, two new songs: I' ll Keep It With Mine and Tryin' To Get To Heaven.

New cover: Cat Power

Cat Power covers I Believe In You on her upcoming album Jukebox, to be released 1/22/08 (US) The album is available in a regular edition and a deluxe edition with a bonus disc, this track is on both editions.
Thanks to Thomas Groschwald for the tip


Pre-order 1-CD edition from:
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Pre-order deluxe 2-CD edition from:
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Dylan in Eisenberg photos

Some photos of the Dylan in Eisenberg exhibit can be viewed in The Dylan Covers Forum.

New in Dylan Cover Albums:Mikael Wiehe & Ebba Forsberg

Dylan på Svenska by Mikael Wiehe & Ebba Forsberg of Sweden has been added to the Translations pages of Dylan Cover Albums HERE.
The CD includes 15 Swedish translations of Dylan songs.
This is Mikael Wiehe's 3rd full album of Dylan covers, after 1982's De Ensligas Allé and 2006's 'Dylan' by Totta & Wiehe. He has also included Dylan translations on his other albums,
see the Mikael Wiehe Collector's Guide.
For more info visit mikaelwiehe.se
International ordering is available from: bengans.se

Zimming Point songs of the week

Zimming Point offers 2 songs this week: Tell Me That It Isn't True and Queen Jane Approximately, available at zimmingpoint.com.
Next week, two versions of This Wheel's On Fire will be available, with a listener poll to decide which version is included on the album.

First-of-month updates for December 1, 2007

The Dylan Covers DataBase has been updated, adding 222 new covers for a new total of
20,432.
Click here to view New Additions Only
42 new images were added during the month.

Dylan Covers On-Line added 14 links, for a new total of 832.

Dylan Title Tracks added 1 new item:

1963 Belgian E.P. with Woorden in de Wind (Blowin' In The Wind) by The Dockx Brothers.
Thanks to H.P. Bushoff.
NOTE: Title Tracks will now be updated along with the other first-of-month updates.




Thanks for all submissions to the DylanCover.com websites during November.
When Christmas shopping on-line, please consider supporting DylanCover.com by using any of the links in the right sidebar.

Covers by these artists were added to the DataBase
during November 2007:
Terry Adams, Adingha, Ian Ball and Olly Peacock, Jimmy Barnes, Mira Billotte, BoomBox, Breaking and Entering, BT4, Sam Bush, Calexico, Os Canibais, Brandi Carlile, Cloud Cult, Crooked Still, Cubensis (7), Pete Cummins, D-5 Group, Michael Derning & Mia Arends, Dion, Distant Cousins, The Dockx Brothers, John Doe (2), Dylan66 (11), ekoostik Hookah, Emmitt Nershi Band (4), Fat Maw Rooney, Sue Foley, Marcus Carl Franklin, Jerry Garcia & John Kahn (2), Jerry Garcia Band, Gertrude's Hearse (4), Gov't Mule, Grateful Dead, Grinning Mob (3), Hairy Larry and George (7), Hairy Larry and The Flying Hungarians (2), Joe Henry and Calexico, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Robyn Hitchcock, Hot Buttered Rum (6), Izabella, Elana James & The Continental Two, Jim James and Calexico, Bobby Jameson, Mason Jennings, JGB, Mark Johnson & Emory Lester, Joker777, Kris Kehr & Jawbone!, Pat Kelly, The Kind, Kevn Kinney, Al Kooper and the Funky Faculty with the Uptown Horns, Jimmy LaFave, Steve LaManna (3), Mark Lanegan and Calexico, Phil Lesh & Friends (3), Little Feat (2), Kim MacKenzie, J. Mascis, Kurt Matthew, Dave Matthews Band (2), Max Creek. James McKenty and The Spades, Tift Merritt, The Million Dollar Bashers, Mister, Monti Beton (15), Moonalice, John Mullins & Dave Katz, Mumbouli, My Morning Jacket, David Nelson & Friends (2), New Riders of the Purple Sage (2), Emmerson Nogueira, North Mississippi Allstars, Jan Obbeek en Coen Bardelmeijer (3), Joan Osborne, Outformation, Krista Parrish, Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Didier de Langres, The Phantom Engineers, The Quinns, Lee Ranaldo, Raq, Ratdog (17), The Roots, The Schwag, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Silas, Sound 70, The Spikedrivers, Marty Stuart, Erika Stucky, Tabitha's Secret, June Tabor & The Oyster Band (2), Patti Taylor Singers, Thacker Dairy Road, Uncle Earl, Valdemar (11), Bob Walkenhorst (3), Widespread Panic (2), Mikael Wiehe & Ebba Forsberg (15), Johnny Winter with The Derek Trucks Band, Workingman's Ed (2), Yo La Tengo (2), Yonder Mountain String Band (3), Zimming Point (5)

Downloads & streams

• Kurt Matthew has added a listen or download mp3 of Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine) to his SoundClick.com site

• Japan's Joker777 has added a listen-only (or purchase) mp3 of The Times They Are A-Changin' to his SoundClick.com site

• Kris Kehr has three listen-only Dylan covers on his website kriskehr.com [> listen]
Available are Million Dollar Bash, The Man In Me, and the rarely covered Trouble.

• Reuben Richards & The Odyssey Blues & Soul Revue from the UK offer an mp3 of Meet Me In The Morning from their 2001 EP Against the Odds on their website odysseyblues.co.uk [> Music] [> Against The Odds]
Can anyone provide a cover scan of this EP?

New Hard Rain

An mp3 of Bob's new version of A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, recorded for the Spanish Expo Zaragosa 2008 can be found here: unetealaexpo.com
A Spanish version by the band Amaral will be available soon.

Reminder: Dylan in Eisenberg

Opening this weekend:
Stadtmuseum Eisenberg (Thüringen) in Germany will be hosting Dylan in Eisenberg: Die Songs von Bob Dylan auf 7" Vinyl, an exhibition of rare singles, EPs promos and test pressings. The exhibition will run from December 1, 2007 through February 3, 2008.
For further information, contact dylanineisenberg@gmx.de



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New in Dylan Cover Albums:Like A...Monti Beton

Like A...Monti Beton - The Bob Dylan Sessions by the Austrian band Monti Beton has been added to Dylan Cover Albums HERE.
Monti Beton is fronted by Thomas Schreiber and Toni Matosic, and this 2006 album features guests Willi Resetarits, Tini Kainrath, Hans Theessink and Johann K.
Added to the band's own vocalists, all these voices produce a varied sound on the very enjoyable album.
The 17 track CD includes 15 Dylan covers plus two traditionals.
For more info, audio samples and ordering visit montibeton.com
Thanks to Monti Beton

Coming Soon...

Two new albums will be added to Dylan Cover Albums soon:
• Like A Monti Beton: The Bob Dylan Sessions, a 2006 CD by the Austrian cover band Monti Beton. 15 Dylan covers (1 is a translation) and 2 Dylan-related traditionals.
Thanks to Dirk Krah
• Dylan på Svenska by Mikael Wiehe & Ebba Forsberg.
15 Swedish translations.
Thanks to Ole Lien

Stay tuned!

Zimming Point song of the week

Zimming Point's song of the week is When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky, available at zimmingpoint.com.
Two songs will be added next week: Tell Me That It Isn't True and Queen Jane Approximately.

The band invites comments about their recordings, you can leave them here and they'll be added to their webpage.

Website updates

• Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 DVD has been added to the Johnny Winter Collector's Guide. Johnny Winter is backed by the Derek Trucks Band on Highway 61 Revisited, at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar festival in July 2007.
Thanks to Michael Tearson

• Info about the Japanese release of Tangled Up In Blues CD has been added to the albums listing. Front cover artwork is the same as the original US release, but the disc is yet another design, the 7th. Any others out there?
Thanks to Arie de Reus

• Artwork for Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan Volume 25 has been added to the Unofficial page.

I'm Not There: In Concert

An audio stream of I'm Not There: In Concert from The Beacon Theater in New York, November 7th, can be heard at Wolfgang's Vault. (registration required)
Thanks to Wilbur at The Dylan Covers Forum

Covers performed at the concert:
When the Ship Comes In - Marcus Carl Franklin
Billy 1 - Calexico
Goin’ To Acapulco - Jim James and Calexico
Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) - Joe Henry with Calexico
Man In The Long Black Coat - Mark Lanegan with Calexico
All I Really Wanna Do - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry - Al Kooper and the Funky Faculty with the Uptown Horns
As I Went Out One Morning - Mira Billotte and the Million Dollar Bashers
Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright - Ian Ball and Olly Peacock
Subterranean Homesick Blues - Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks
Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35 - Terry Adams
I Wanna Be Your Lover - Yo La Tengo
Fourth Time Around - Yo La Tengo
Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You - My Morning Jacket
The Times They Are A-Changin' - Mason Jennings
Pressing On - John Doe
Buckets of Rain - Jimmy LaFave
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall - Tift Merritt
Can’t Leave Her Behind - Lee Ranaldo and the Million Dollar Bashers
Santa Fe - J. Mascis and the Million Dollar Bashers
Ballad of a Thin Man - John Doe and the Million Dollar Bashers
Masters of War - The Roots
All Along the Watchtower - The Million Dollar Bashers and guests

Bobby Jameson: To Ramona

Thanks to Bobby Jameson for the note that he also covered To Ramona during the Working! sessions, but the track did not make it on to the album.
More info and a mp3 download at the Echoes In The Wind blog.
Bobby Jameson's Working! album was featured
in my 9/8/07 post

I'm Not There: download bonus tracks

Thanks to several contributors for reports of available bonus tracks, unfortunately only with full album downloads of the I'm Not There soundtrack:

From iTunes:
Main Title Theme (Billy) - Calexico
One Too Many Mornings - Joe Henry
What Kind Of Friend Is This? - Stephen Malkmus and Lee Ranaldo (Eat The Document outtake. An adaptation of a Koko Taylor song, so I have not listed it as a Dylan cover)

From Rhapsody:
Bunkhouse Theme - Calexico
Trouble In Mind - Bob Dylan (the B-side)

Zimming Point song of the week

Zimming Point's song of the week is Time Passes Slowly, available at zimmingpoint.com (bottom of page.)
Next week: When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky.

Dylan covers contest goes American

An American version of a Dylan covers contest similar to the recent Spanish contest has been announced. For more info visit the contest page.
Correction: apparently this contest is only open to US residents, my original post stated it was an international contest.

From the DylanCover.com collection: Discotheque

Mr. Tambourine Man (2:45)
Discotheque
The Discotheque Dance Album
LP: Command RS 892 SD; 1966 (US)

The LPs on Command are sought after by "lounge music" collectors. This 1966 Discotheque LP is sometimes confused with the earlier Discotheque LPs by Enoch Light, but this LP is from the period after he had left the label.
The LP features many of the other headliners of Command, including Tony Mottola, Dick Hyman, Doc Severinsen, Bob Haggart and an All-Star Orchestra directed by Bobby Byrne. Only Mottola, Hyman & Byrne are mentioned in the notes regarding Mr. Tambourine Man:
“One of Bob Dylan's first ventures into folk-rock, popularized by The Byrds, retains a lot of it's essentially folkish feeling even in Bobby Byrne's full-bodied arrangement. This feeling is quickly established by the subdued cathedral tones of Dick Hyman's organ with the brass building gradually behind him and it is carried on by Tony Mottola's guitar solo. The full power of the band is unleashed as the tune progresses, working up a tremendous head of steam out of which Hyman's organ moves, high and mournful with wriggling little tremolo figures.”
It's unclear if "Discotheque" is meant to be the band name, or just an umbrella name for the project, but I've used it here in lieu of a proper band name.
Tony Mottola and Dick Hyman have been featured on the Blog before, both for their own instrumental covers
of Lay Lady Lay
(click each name for archived Blog post)

Dylan Title Tracks: 2 additions

Visit Dylan Title Tracks for 2 new items added today:

• 1981 Spanish sleeve of Blowin' In The Wind by Joan Baez, from the 1980 European Tour live LP.
Thanks to H.P. Bushoff.

• Added to albums is the Valdemar CD Saving Grace
(see previous post)

There are now 1,257 sleeves & albums displayed in
Dylan Title Tracks.

Valdemar: Saving Grace added to Dylan Cover Albums

Saving Grace: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan by the Swedish group Valdemar with singer Valle Erling, and featuring Mattias Hellberg and voices from London Community Gospel Choir, has been added to Dylan Cover Albums HERE.
It's a great album, I recommend it highly. Hopefully it will find a wider distribution.
The CD will be released November 28 by Zebra Art Records in Sweden, Norway and Finland. For more info, pictures and some audio files see zebraart.se

MySpace covers

The Phantom Engineers, a Dylan tribute band from Ireland cover When The Deal Goes Down on their MySpace page.

Pete Cummins, also from Ireland, covers Moonlight on his MySpace page.

Note: I am unable to listen to or download anything from MySpace due to my slow connection, so I am relying on reports from others. I can't verify if download links (if available) are working.

Berlin Bobbirth Bash 07

A report with tracklists of the Berlin Bobbirth Bash 07 held November 3rd is available at http://www.myspace.com/wilburized.
Click "epilogue" link on right side of page.

New cover: Dion

Son Of Skip James, the new album by the legendary Dion includes a new recording of Baby, I'm In The Mood For You.
Dion first recorded the song in 1965, but it went unreleased until his 1991 "Bronx Blues" collection.
Thanks to Michael Tearson for the tip
The Dion Collector's Guide has been updated.

Buy the amazon mp3

New covers from Zimming Point

Zimming Point have recorded some new songs, mostly Dylan covers, during sessions in October.
Starting Monday, a different new song will be available each week at zimmingpoint.com (bottom of page.) The first of the series will be Tell Ol’ Bill.
Zimming Point (the band) recently celebrated it's 3rd birthday, and Zimming Point (the website) it's first. Congratulations!

Valdemar: Saving Grave - TBR 11/28

To be released November 28 by Zebra Art Records in Sweden, Norway and Finland is Saving Grace: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan by the Swedish group Valdemar.
Updated: see 11/14 post

From the DylanCover.com collection: Healers

It Ain't Me, Babe (4:44)
Healers
Secret Show
LP: Rattlesnake RAT1218; 1990 (Australia)

The Australian band Healers version of It Ain't Me, Babe is harder rockin' than most other covers of the song.

This LP was marketed in Europe by Normal Records.

Collector's Guides Updates

Added to the Soundtrack Collector's Guide is Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 for it's All Along The Watchtower performed by BT4. The song was an integral part of the Crossroads Part II episode of the US TV sci-fi series.
Available from amazon.com

The I'm Not There soundtrack (see 10/25 post) has been added to the Collector's Guides for Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Richie Havens and Roger McGuinn.

Dylan covers at amazonmp3

Now on-line is a guide to Dylan covers available from amazonmp3.
The guide currently lists almost 400 DRM-free, high quality mp3s available from amazonmp3 for 89¢-99¢ each.
The list is a work in progress and far from complete.
Using these links helps support DylanCover.com. There is a permanent link on the right sidebar, below the amazonmp3 graphic.
The same links are also available on detail views of items in the Dylan Covers DataBase.
The Guide to Dylan covers at amazonmp3

Downloads & streams

• Denver area tribute band Dylan66 offers 11 Dylan cover mp3s on their website dylan66.org [> Music]
Thanks to Wilbur, from his post at The Dylan Covers Forum

• Seven Days, the SonyBMG España contest entry by Los Hijos de Jack is available as an audio stream on the band's website [>English >Multimedia >audio]

• Japan's Joker777 has added a listen-only stream or purchase mp3 of Only A Hobo to his SoundClick.com site.

First-of-month updates for November 1, 2007

The Dylan Covers DataBase has been updated, adding 233 new covers for a new total of
20,210.
Click here to view New Additions Only
110 new images were added during the month.
Links to purchase Amazon mp3s of several hundred covers are now available in the detail view of some DataBase entries. Albums with multiple covers are linked to the album, single covers are linked to the specific track. This is an ongoing project and is far from complete. Using these links helps support DylanCover.com.

Dylan Covers On-Line lost 12 cover links, for a new total of 818.

Thanks to all who contributed to the DylanCover.com websites during October.

Covers by these artists were added to the DataBase
during October 2007:
Daniel Aguado Conchillo, Red Allen, Amedício Jr., Animal Liberation Orchestra with Jack Johnson, José Miguel Azcona Elizalde, Back Forty, Big Rhythm Wine, Big Smith, BigtoR, Ryan Bingham and The Road, Black Crowes (3), Black September, Bob's Mob, Mary Boyden (2), Joe Brown, The Buddha Lounge Ensemble, Patrizia Bulgari, BZB, Eugene Chadbourne, Circus Roncalli Royal Orchestra, Cornmeal, The Crack Pipes, Cubensis (6), Charlie Daniels Band (2), Dirk Darmstaedter, Roger de Flor, Dead Country, The Delta Kings, John Doe, Chris Duarte Group, The Dylan Project (2), Yehuda Eder, The Electric Waste Band, George Elliott, Drew Emmitt (2), Flacos y Famosos, Phil Flowers & The Flower Shop, The Fratellis, Julio Ángel Garcia Aparicio, Antoni García Iranzo, Jerry Garcia Band (5), Miquel Gil, Alex Gómez, Jake Goodfleisch, Gov't Mule (3), Grateful Dead (5), green.means.love, Buddy Greene, The Gunhands (2), Jesús Gutiérrez García, The Gyps, Glen Hansard & BLØF, Heather accompanied by The Thunderbirds, Ulla Henningsen, Barbara Higbie, Hot Buttered Rum (3), Houston & Mike, Hypnotic Clambake, JGB (3), Sira Jiménez & Jesús García, Joker777, Søren Lampe, Natalie Rose LeBrecht, Ted Lennon, Ted Lennon and Brett Dennen, Phil Lesh & Friends (11), Loona, John Mackenzie, Jorge Magliano, Marks Brothers, Eduardo Maroto Merino, Alberto Enrique Martinez Ramos, Marit Mathiesen, Max Creek (5), Del McCoury Band (2), Annie McLoone, Bill Medley, Jose Luis Merino Vigo, Mickey G. & The Chromedomes, Mojo Society, The Mountain Folk Band, Nana Mouskouri, Ignacio Mugurza Trueba, Mumbouli (2), New Riders of the Purple Sage (4), Nico, The Nite Life, Outformation, Tim Palmieri (4), The Panics (2), Mireia Pascual, Peter Paul & Mary (2), Polonia210, John Prendo, Kevin Purcell & the Nightburners, The Radiators (11), Railroad Earth, Raq, Ratdog (6), Red Herring, Los Reno (2), The ReOrders, Lee Rocker, Rainer Rodin (2), Linda Ronstadt, Mason Ruffner, Santana (2), Schorsch & de Bagasch, Shlomi Shaban, Todd Sheaffer (3), Billy Sheehan, Sir Ivan, Splintered Sunlight (2), Nancy Elizabeth Stock, Randy Tessier, Texas Diesel, Thunderbay Memories, Trampled by Turtles, Happy & Artie Traum (2), Uncle Earl (3), Bobby Vinton, Bob Walkenhorst (5), The Wayword Sons, Skip West, Hugo Westerdahl & the Pink Armadillos, Widespread Panic (2), Loo Wood, Yonder Mountain String Band (3), Takuro Yoshida, The Zen Tricksters, Zimming Point (21)

Winners announced: SonyBMG España Dylan covers contest

Two winners of the SonyBMG España Dylan covers contest have been announced. The two winners plus a special mention are again available as audio streams on the contest's MySpace page.

Congratulations to the winners:
Hurricane (cantada en Español) - Salvador Romero Núñez
Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Jose Luis Merino Vigo
and special mention:
All Along The Watchtower - Josep Pérez Escola

Winning artists' links and further info at zimmingpoint.com.
A contest overview (in Spanish) with a list of all entrants is also available at zimmingpoint.com.
Thanks to JB Heinink for his reports during the contest

Dylan Title Tracks: 4 additions

Visit Dylan Title Tracks for 4 new items added today:

• EP from Singapore by Heather (accompanied by The Thunderbirds) with I Shall Be Released on the B-side.

• 2007 French compilation CD Le Ciel Est Noir (A Hard Rain) by Nana Mouskouri (see 10/23 post)

• Two Hugues Aufray EPs from the Aufray Cante Dylan page are now also displayed in Dylan Title Tracks: N’Y Pense Plus (Don't Think Twice) and L’Homme Orchestre (Mr. Tambourine Man.)
Thanks to Ronald Born for CD reissue info.

There are now 1,255 sleeves & albums displayed in
Dylan Title Tracks.

I'm Not There added to Dylan Cover Albums

The I'm Not There soundtrack, to be released in the US on 10/30, has been added to Dylan Cover Albums. The double-CD soundtrack offers over 30 new Dylan covers, plus Bob's own rare recording of the title track.
Discographical details to be completed when available.

Available from:
amazon.com | amazon.co.uk | amazon.de | amazon.ca

Downloads

• You're A Big Girl Now by BigtoR, an entry in the SonyBMG España covers contest is available as a mp3 download at zimmingpoint.com (bottom of page)
Thanks to JB

• California guitarist Loo Wood offers a cover of All Along The Watchtower on his website loowood.net [> Music]
Thanks to Detta

Barb Jungr compilation from Australia

A new Barb Jungr collection has been released by ABC in Australia. No Regrets: The Remarkable Barb Jungr includes 4 of her previously released Dylan covers: If Not for You, I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight and Not Dark Yet from her 2002 all-Dylan album Every Grain Of Sand, and I Shall Be Released from 2005's Love Me Tender.
The Barb Jungr Collector's Guide has been updated.

New cover: Nana Mouskouri

Le Ciel Est Noir: Les 50 Plus Belles Chansons, a new 3-CD collection of Nana Mouskouri recordings includes a previously unreleased studio recording of the title track, a French translation of A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall. Nana released 2 live versions of the song in the '70s. The recording date of this studio version is not provided in the CD liner notes.
Thanks to JF for the tip
The Nana Mouskouri Collector's Guide has been updated.

Available from:
amazon.com | amazon.de | amazon.ca

From the DylanCover.com collection: Two obscure 45s

One Too Many Mornings (2:27)
The Conservatives
single (b/w: A Little Bird Told Me So)
45: Tribe 45-8326; 1968 (US)

Produced by Huey P. Meaux




I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (2:40)
The Sirs
single (b/w: Cool - instrumental)
45: Soft Records S-1029; 1969 (US)

Produced by Major Bill Smith & Lewis Elliott

New Danish cover

Skønne Spildte Dage, a new album by Danish singer Ulla Henningsen includes a translation of Standing In The Doorway (as Grædende I Døren.)
Thanks to Lars M. Banke

Streaming audio & video

• 4 tracks from the forthcoming I'm Not There soundtrack can be heard at the album's MySpace page

• Man Gave Names To All The Animals by The Del McCoury Band, live on NPR's Live in Studio 4A can be heard HERE

• Video of All Along The Watchtower covered by the French pop-folk duo Maxwell & Tores at MySpaceTV.com. Recorded at the "Rock en Folie" radio show on June 21, 2007.

Amazon MP3

Amazon MP3 offers Earth's biggest selection of a la carte, DRM-free MP3 music downloads. With over 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists represented by over 20,000 major and independent labels.

Included in this selection, besides many of the well-known Dylan covers & cover albums, are many surprises, including Gene Norman Group's Dylan Jazz that has not been released on CD, and other obscurities like Masters Of War by The Bergerfolk and Talkin' World War III Blues by Bob Dylan Imitator Contest Winner #26 from The CooP - Fast Folk Musical Magazine.
The next DataBase update will include direct links to many available mp3s. Amazon mp3s are in high quality 256 kbs format, and are 89¢ or 99¢ for individual tracks, complete albums are also available for even less per track.

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Thanks --D.P.

New in the DylanCover.com collection: Natalie Rose LeBrecht

K.O.H.D. (4:44)
Natalie Rose LeBrecht
Imagining Weather
CD: Unlabeled 004; 2005 (US)

The CD descibes K.O.H.D. as "a lyrical adaptation of Bob Dylan's Knockin' On Heaven's Door."
Apparently this means intoning a few lines of Knockin' in a monotonous voice over equally monotonous new music. One to avoid unless you must have everything.
LeBrecht is a member of the NY band Greenpot Bluepot.
Available from amazon.com

New in the DylanCover.com collection: Santana

Blowin' In The Wind (6:13)
Just Like A Woman (5:47)
Santana
Hymns For Peace:
Live at Montreux 2004
DVD: Eagle Eye Media EE39144-9; 2007 (US)

Santana and guests perform a concert of songs about peace and understanding at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July15, 2004.
Blowin' In The Wind is sung by Santana band vocalist Andy Vargas, in a medley with several verses of Stevie Wonder's A Place In The Sun.
Just Like A Woman is performed by veteran jazz & blues singer Barbara Morrison.
Available from amazon.com

New covers: Charlie Daniels Band

Deuces, the new album released this week by The Charlie Daniels Band includes covers of Maggie's Farm and Like A Rolling Stone.
Thanks to Michael Tearson for the tip

Available from:
amazon.com | amazon.co.uk |
amazon.de | amazon.ca

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New in the DylanCover.com collection: Soup

Tangled Up In Blue (8:29)
Soup
A Tour of 2 Cities
CD: Phoenix Presents 3003; 2000 (US)

Jam band Soup utilizes double male vocals on Tangled Up In Blue. I'm not a great fan of jam bands, but this version is among the better examples I've heard.
This double-CD presents two 1999 concerts, one in their hometown of Atlanta and one in New York City, but the 2 "encore" tracks on the NYC disc are from two further shows the same year at the 40 Watt in Athens, Georgia, including Tangled from September 25, 1999.
Check amazon.com for used copies and more info.

From the DylanCover.com collection: Rod Ruby

Blowin' In The Wind (2:54)
Rod Ruby
Sings Your Requests
LP: Lemco 790138; 19?? (US)

The notes on this album provide all I know of Rod Ruby.
"Born in a small town in eastern Kentucky... millions watched and listened as he sang with Fred Waring... still others saw him during his early days on the Ed Sullivan Show as well as an appearance with Jackie Gleason on his network televison extranaganza.. Rod is in great demand as an after dinner speaker/singer/entertainer on the banquet circuit... he has sung with the Palm Beach and Miami Opera Companies... Rod is a big man with a big baritone voice..." You get the idea. Two other LPs by Rod are shown on the album, released by Music Associates, Inc. of Lexington, Kentucky. No date is listed, I would guess mid to late '60s. Blowin' In The Wind is the only then-contemporary song on the album. Other selections include Edelweiss, Some Enchanted Evening, Danny Boy, Battle Hymn of The Republic, and Ol' Man River.

DataBase reaches 20,000 !!!

The Dylan Covers DataBase has reached 20,000 covers listed!

My master database is actually 41 past that mark. It's a lot of work to do a full update, and it's only been 3 days since the last one, so I just added the 23 needed to reach 20K. The next full update will be on the regular first-of-month schedule. You can always see all the pending additions on the Next Update Preview page.
Note that the on-line DataBase currently contains over 20,317 lines, but 317 of these are cross-reference links or other notations.

As always, many thanks to contributors around the world who keep me informed of Dylan covers both new and old.

Thanks also to those who contribute cover scans or missing info. Over 50% of the 20K entries are illustrated. A further 40% of the listings are items where artwork is not applicable, so less than 10% of the complete DataBase is missing cover images.
Images are displayed on the detail view of each item, click the artist name on any line marked "+" in the list view to access the detail view.

Any additions, comments, suggestions or questions? You can either e-mail me (link at top of right sidebar), leave a comment to any post in the Blog in Plain D (link below post), or consider joining the fledgling Dylan Covers Forum.

New in the DylanCover.com collection: Dr. Watson Reid and Americana

Man Gave Names To All The Animals (5:04)
Dr. Watson Reid
and Americana
Sing Me A Song:
The Songs to Share Series Vol.1
CD: Walden Green Music WGM 0003; 1997 (US)

This collection of classic, mostly animal-related songs is "for kids of all ages." The 8-piece band from New England and the arrangements give the album a fuller, more adult sound than one would expect on a collection of children's music. The 15 track CD includes Old MacDonald, Rock Island Line, Stewball, Camptown Races, This Old Man and others, closing with Man Gave Names To All The Animals.
Check amazon.com for used copies and more info.

Watson Reid covered Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat on his 1996 non-children's album New Dimension, also available from amazon.com.

New cover: Bill Medley

Damn Near Righteous, a new album by Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers, includes a cover of Just Like A Woman.
DualDisc available from: amazon.com
Thanks to Michael Tearson for the tip

Fiesta Dylan 2006

Zimming Point has posted 24 videos (21 Dylan covers) from their Fiesta Dylan 2006, recorded live at Malatesta in Madrid, Oct. 28, 2006. Some are available at zimmingpoint.com, others are at YouTube. Direct links to each video are available in
The Dylan Covers Forum.

Broadside: Blind Boy Grunt + covers

The Blind Boy Grunt tracks on Broadside Ballads Vol.1 and Broadside Reunion are now available at amazon.com as mp3 downloads, either full album or individual tracks.
Vol.1 also contains 2 Dylan covers, Happy Traum's Let Me Die In My Footsteps and Blowin' In The Wind by The New World Singers.
Vol.1: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000S9AP94
Reunion: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000S9AOEK

Also available is The Broadside Singers with Paths Of Victory
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000S591WK

and Pete Seeger's Broadside Ballads Vol.2 with several Dylan covers:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000S96RKK

MP3s available to US residents only, although I've been told if you register using a US state & zipcode you can bypass the restriction.

Broadside Ballads Vol.1 is also available on CD
The Broadside Singers is also available on CD

First-of-month updates for October 1, 2007

The Dylan Covers DataBase has been updated, adding 264 new covers for a new total of 19,977. Only a few days away from 20K!
Click here to view New Additions Only
Also 100 new images were added.

Dylan Covers On-Line added 42 new cover links, for a new total of 830.

Thanks to all who contributed to the DylanCover.com websites during September.

Covers by these artists were added to the DataBase
during September 2007:
Rolf Ableiter & Band, Cliff Adams Singers, Aftergrass, Fernando Alemany Rubio, Joan Baez (2), José María Baulenas Renalías, BellaDiva, The Bergerfolk, Chris Bergson Band, Big Rhythm Wine, Black Crowes (2), Bloodkin (2), Bob Dylan Imitator Contest Winner #26, Sean Bonnell, BoomBox (2), Justin Branam, Mitch Brennan, Mike Brody, Danny Bryant's RedEyeBand (2), Los Bubbadinos (4), T-Bone Burnett, C.C. & Willow Creek, Deana Carter, Johnny Cash, The Catfish Brothers, Caution Jam, Agnes Chan, Roger Chapman, Chas & J.I., Rita Clarke and The Naturals, Bobby Comstock and The Counts, Corkscrew, Cornmeal (3), Cubensis (4), Alan Darveaux with Slight Departure, Riem de Wolff, Delta-Cross Band, Julio Demonio, Dixie Chicks, Donna Jean & The Tricksters, Mattia Donna, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, The Electric Waste Band (2), Drew Emmitt Band, Carl Faddis, Fat Maw Rooney, Manuel Fernández Breis, Juan Eduardo Ferro Calderini, Flexpelt, Kate Gaffney, Garage Deluxe (2), Francisco García Cubero, Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders (3), Gertrude's Hearse (2), Hèctor Gilberto, Arnau Giordani Calsina, Fernando Goin (3), Steve Golley, Cuthbert Gorch, Gov't Mule (3), Grateful Dead (4), David Gray (2), Grinning Mob, Michael Gruber, Pat Guadagno with Mary McCrink (2), Gunn Club, George Gusman, Hackensaw Boys, Chris Harford and the Band of Changes, Ben Harper, Herman Düne, Hexbelt (3), Little Miss Higgins, Los Hijos de Jack, Niall James Holohan, Hot Buttered Rum, Ashley Hutchings All Stars, Jimmy Ibbotson, Keith Jarrett Trio (2), The Jayhawks, JB (Zimming Point), Jerónimo & Cro-Magnon, JGB, Colin John, Joker777, The Kadets, Larry Keel and Natural Bridge, Seth Kibel, Steve Kimock & Friends (2), L'Amant, Lampshade Drama (12), Ilaria Lantieri & Soulness, Jake Lear, Leftover Salmon, Phil Lesh & Friends (2), Little Boy Blue, Little Feat, Garrett Lund, Pablo D. Martín Fontana, David Massengill, Dave Matthews (4), Max Creek (2), Del McCoury Band, Rory McLeod, The Mendoza Line, Bob Millea, Ministry (2), Miracle Train (3), The Montfort Singers, Naked Eyes, David Nelson Band, Nena (2), The New Diamonds. New Found Glory with Sherri Gilbert, New Riders of the Purple Sage (7), Willie Nile, Tim O'Brien & Mollie with The O'Boys, Kim Olson, Carlos Otero, Outformation (5), Panpipes, Larry Parker, Charlie Parr, David Paul, Santiago Penagos Alfaro, Josep Pérez Escola, Jaume Pla Cordobés, The Pretty Things, The Radiators, Toby Rand, Ratdog (2), Matt Ray (2), Real Folk, The Rebs, The Reeltime Travelers, Mae Robertson, Salvador Romero Núñez, The Roots, Ángel Salces Sillero, Sauce, Merl Saunders and The Rainforest Band, Kate Schrock, Erik Segerstedt (3), Shack, Silver Shoes, Simply Red, The Small Stars (3), Soweto Gospel Choir, The Spikedrivers (3), Spindrift (4), The Stationary Willberries, The Steepwater Band (4), Curtis Stigers, Stringtown Pickers (2), Sula with Andy Irvine, The Super American Happy Fun Good Time Jamband, Sylwek Szweda, Susan Tedeschi, Daniel Tena & Raúl Rabadán, Terrapin Flyer, Sandi Thom, Those Meddling Kids, Dori Turner, Uncle Earl, John Vaughan, Francisco José Vigil Prada, Bob Walkenhorst (2), The Waterboys, The Wayword Sons, Mark Weber, Widespread Panic, Cassandra Wilson, Steve Wynn (2), Yonder Mountain String Band (4), Zero (3)