Showing posts with label Bob Dylan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bob Dylan. Show all posts
Hear Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize speech
Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize acceptance speech has been posted online. Awarded the prize for literature, Dylan's speech explores stories, books and songs that have influence his life and work, from Buddy Holly and Leadbelly to "Moby Dick," "The Odyssey" and "All Quiet on the Western Front."
You can listen to and read it here.
You can listen to and read it here.
Bob Dylan - preview track from the "Real Royal Albert Hall Concert"
From the upcoming album that collects Bob Dylan's "real" 1966 concert at London's Royal Albert Hall (not to be confused to the one that was often bootlegged as the show, but was actually from the Manchester Free Trade Hall), here's the Bard and the Band performing "Tell Me, Momma."
More details on the release, plus the mammoth collection of Dylan's 1966 live recordings, here.
More details on the release, plus the mammoth collection of Dylan's 1966 live recordings, here.
Another huge Bob Dylan set on the way - 1966 live recordings
A year after the bonanza release of his full 1965-66 studio recordings, Bob Dylan is issuing a giant, 36-CD collection of 1966 live performances.
Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings is set for release Nov. 11. For those not in the mood or market for the Big Kahuna, you can also make do with the 2-CD Real Royal Albert Hall Concert. This recording features Dylan and the Band's May 26, 1966, in that London venue.
Bootlegs claiming to be the Albert Hall show, which included the infamous incident when a fan shouted "Judas!" at the gone-electric bard, where actually sourced from Dylan's performance at the Manchester Free Trade Hall from the same tour. The Manchester show was official released a few years ago as Volume 4 of Dylan's Bootleg Series as the in-quotes "Albert Hall Concert."
According to Mojo, the live collection:
... includes recordings made with the CBS mobile, plus soundboard and audience tapes. While the infamous Manchester Free Trade Hall show from May 17, 1966, has previously been released as volume 4 of Bob’s Bootleg series, and two other tracks – I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) and Visions Of Johanna – appeared on 1985’s Biograph, a majority of these live sets have never been released, officially or otherwise.
Each individual disc will be housed in a sleeve featuring a still from D.A. Pennebaker’s landmark Dylan observational documentaries, Dont Look Back (1965) and Eat The Document (1966). Detailed sleeve notes for the project will be provided by esteemed Dylanographer Clinton Heylin.
Hear a BBC Radio 4 documentary about the simultaneous release 50 years ago of "Pet Sounds" and "Blonde on Blonde"
Listen here.
Details:
Details:
On Monday 16th of May, 1966 two of the greatest albums of all time were released. Through archive, interviews and music from The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, we tell the story of the music from that momentous day.
For the American music lover, the two albums would come to shape music history. Blonde on Blonde is considered Bob Dylan's magnum opus, while Pet Sounds is The Beach Boys' epic journey into the musical mind of Brian Wilson.Fifty years on, we hear from those who remember that day - musicians who worked on the albums, and teenagers who saved up to buy the records but had a choice to make, Pet Sounds or Blonde on Blonde.We hear of two lovers who danced in the kitchen to Pet Sounds. Wouldn't it Be Nice played as they talked of the future. On that day in 1966, Bob Dylan was playing in Sheffield, one of his forty or so worldwide shows. One Dylan fan remembers it like it was yesterday. The next day Dylan would play Manchester and be called "Judas".One day, two musical visions.
Coming up: Fallen Angels by Bob Dylan
A second standards collection from the Bard.
Out May 20.
Details:
Out May 20.
Details:
Fallen Angels is the 37th studio album from Bob Dylan. Featuring twelve classic American tunes written by some of music's most acclaimed and influential songwriters including Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Sammy Cahn And Carolyn Leigh the album showcases Dylan's unique and much-lauded talents as a vocalist, arranger and bandleader. The Jack Frost-produced album marks the first new music from the artist since his 2015 release, Shadows In The Night, which also showcased Dylan's interpretations of classic American songs. That album reached the Top 10 in seventeen countries, including #7 in the U.S., with #1 debuts in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden and Norway.
Track list:
- Young At Heart
- Maybe You'll Be there
- Polka Dots and Moonbeams
- All The Way
- Skylark
- Nevetheless
- All or Nothing at All
- On a Little Street in Singapore
- It Had to Be You
- Melancholy Mood
- That Old Black Magic
- Come Rain or Come Shine
Another Bob Dylan preview: "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Take 3"
Another preview cut off The Cutting Edge 1965-66: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12, out tomorrow.
Bob Dylan video: "Just Like a Woman" Take 1
This is another teaser from The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12, out this Friday.
Hear Bob Dylan's "The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12"
Via NPR, the two-CD highlights version of The Cutting Edge, featuring outtakes from Dylan's seminal 1960s electric albums.
Teaser video for upcoming Bob Dylan 1965-66 "bootleg" sets
Bob Dylan's recording 1965-66 recording sessions, which yielded the classic Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde albums, are being released Nov. 6 in a variety of configurations, ranging from an 18-CD box collecting pretty everything, to a six-CD "deluxe" version and a 2-CD "best of."
Here's a highlights video:
Here's a highlights video:
Bob Dylan sings Sinatra
Bob Dylan's next album features 10 songs associated with Frank Sinatra, reports Paste.
“It was a real privilege to make this album,” he wrote. “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.”
Dylan went on to differentiate these covers from other tributes. “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.”
New Bob Dylan short film debuts online
Watch "From the Village to the Basement," a short film narrated by Jeff Bridges about Bob Dylan's "Basement Tapes," below.
Beach Boys release rare 1964 material as part of annual "copyright dump" - Beatles and Dylan rarities reportedly on the way
Last year, the Beatles, Beach Boys and Bob Dylan all surprised fans with quiet releases of previously unissued material. The reason: To protect expiring copyrights overseas.
In Europe, copyright on artistic works expires 50 years after its creation, unless its "published." That means all studio outtakes and live recordings by these artists circulating via bootleg become public domain and can be "officially" released by anyone. Unless the artists establish copyright by releasing the recording themselves.
The deadline for such artist releases is Dec. 31 of each year.
Last year, Dylan went the route of protecting his 1963 recordings by releasing a CD collection limited to just 100 copies. Word is that will happen again this year, with 1,000 copies of a vinyl compilation of 1964 material slated for release in Europe only.
The Beatles, meanwhile, put out nearly 60 tracks on iTunes as the Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963 without any public announcement. Word is that also will be happening again.
And the Beach Boys today announced release of outtakes on iTunes in a 46-song compilation called Keep an Eye on Summer. A live performance, Live in Sacramento 1964, is also now up on iTunes. The Big Beat 1963, a download-only release last year, included some of the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson's unprotected 1963 recordings.
There are complete details and liner notes of the Beach Boys 1964 collections on their official site. It's notable that the band sees this as an official release, not just a copyright maneuver, and some real thought seems to have gone into it. Along with outtakes, there are new mixes of several classic tunes and montages of session tapes.
I can only find tiny pics of the Beach Boys comps at the moment. Stay tuned for news about Bob and the Beatles as it develops.
In Europe, copyright on artistic works expires 50 years after its creation, unless its "published." That means all studio outtakes and live recordings by these artists circulating via bootleg become public domain and can be "officially" released by anyone. Unless the artists establish copyright by releasing the recording themselves.
The deadline for such artist releases is Dec. 31 of each year.
Last year, Dylan went the route of protecting his 1963 recordings by releasing a CD collection limited to just 100 copies. Word is that will happen again this year, with 1,000 copies of a vinyl compilation of 1964 material slated for release in Europe only.
The Beatles, meanwhile, put out nearly 60 tracks on iTunes as the Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963 without any public announcement. Word is that also will be happening again.
And the Beach Boys today announced release of outtakes on iTunes in a 46-song compilation called Keep an Eye on Summer. A live performance, Live in Sacramento 1964, is also now up on iTunes. The Big Beat 1963, a download-only release last year, included some of the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson's unprotected 1963 recordings.
There are complete details and liner notes of the Beach Boys 1964 collections on their official site. It's notable that the band sees this as an official release, not just a copyright maneuver, and some real thought seems to have gone into it. Along with outtakes, there are new mixes of several classic tunes and montages of session tapes.
I can only find tiny pics of the Beach Boys comps at the moment. Stay tuned for news about Bob and the Beatles as it develops.
Rolling Stone's mini-documentary about Big Pink and the Basement Tapes
Just posted, Rolling Stone mag and former member of the Band Garth Hudson visit Big Pink, the West Saugerties, N.Y., house where the Band and Bob Dylan recorded the famed "Basement Tapes," released this week in complete form in a new box set.
Bob Dylan's legendary Basement Tapes on the way in expanded set - with tracklist
Bob Dylan's "Basement Tapes," recorded with the Band in upstate New York during the late 1960s are among the most legendary recording sessions of all time - mainly because most of the recordings were never officially released.
Apart from an official 2-LP compilation released in 1975, most of the music has only appeared on scattered bootlegs.
Now, we can officially hear more. Dylan has announced the Nov. 4 release of The Basement Tapes Complete, a 6-CD set collecting all 138 recordings, including 30 never before bootlegged.
The set will be the 11th volume of Dylan's long-running "Bootleg Series" of previously unreleased recordings. Also up on Amazon is a double-CD highlights set called Basement Tapes Raw.
According to Rolling Stone:
Apart from an official 2-LP compilation released in 1975, most of the music has only appeared on scattered bootlegs.
Now, we can officially hear more. Dylan has announced the Nov. 4 release of The Basement Tapes Complete, a 6-CD set collecting all 138 recordings, including 30 never before bootlegged.
The set will be the 11th volume of Dylan's long-running "Bootleg Series" of previously unreleased recordings. Also up on Amazon is a double-CD highlights set called Basement Tapes Raw.
According to Rolling Stone:
The previously unknown tracks include an epic, apocalyptic rocker, "Wild Wolf"; an early draft of "I Shall Be Released" with slightly different lyrics; a cover of Hank Williams' 1949 classic "My Bucket's Got a Hole In It"; and country-fied versions of "Blowin' in the Wind," "It Ain't Me Babe" and "One Too Many Mornings," featuring Band keyboardist Richard Manuel handling lead vocals on the first verse.
"The stuff that people haven't heard justifies, in every way, shape and form, all the hype, hubris and myth that surrounds these tapes," says folk musician and writer Sid Griffin, who wrote the liner notes for this new collection (which is also being released as a two-disc version and three-LP set). "Some of this stuff is mind-boggling."
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