Two great minds of music crash into one another with Things We Said Today. Bob Dylan is no stranger to an appealing cover job. Neither is Paul McCartney. To hear Dylan cover a classic track from Th…
Irish Heartbeat (1991) is an album of Van Morrison with the Chieftains.
Videos by American Songwriter 1. From our January/February issue: Don’t Think Twice: The Paul Zollo Interview, The Reawakening Of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez interview, Robyn Hitchcock on Dylan, Artists On Dylan, Chimes Of Freedom review. 2. Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes on Dylan 3. Ruth Gerson on Dylan 4. G. Love on Dylan 5. Jeffrey Lewis […] More
The new film traces the group from their humble family beginnings and features never-before-seen footage and all-new interviews with Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks, and Bruce Johnston
Check out five sad and beautiful vocal performances by The Band's Richard Manuel, who died 38 years ago on March 4.
photo: Dove Shore *** “When I finished making Threads, I thought, ‘This is a good bookend to a really long career filled with the tradition of making
It’s been four years since Norah Jones has released a studio album and new material (Pick Me Up Off the Floor). There was a holiday album and a live album in 2021. Once again, Jones has come up with an album, Visions, that highlights her gorgeous and singular vocal style and ability to write songs that move from the infectiously
Bob Dylan already had a certain way of getting his songs down on tape, but that led to violence when paired with the perfectionism of Daniel Lanois.
O’er railroad ties and crossings I made my weary way, Through swamps and elevations My tired feet did stray Until I resolved at sunset Some higher ground to win. ‘Twas there I met with …
Bruce Springsteen has never been shy about discussing his influences. The songwriter remains a music fan at he
A fitting ode.
If Americana has ever had any solid definition, it is in the songs that The Band recorded for their debut album, ‘Music From Big Pink.’
As the artist, writer, and musician gears up for a new show, she looks back on an astonishing 50-year career and what drives her forward.
The Traveling Wilburys were a great but short-lived "supergroup," consisting of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne. Unfortunately, they only made two studio albums, and never did any live performances. The unexpected death of Orbison due to a heart attack effectively killed the group, even though they did their second album without them. Due to the limited amount of material the band made together, people naturally want more. And since their albums were called "Volume 1" and "Volume 3" (as a joke), it's just as natural that when people put together stray tracks to make another album, they call it "Volume 1." Many others have put together various versions of "Volume 2," but here is my attempt. In terms of actual songs recorded by all of the Traveling Wilburys, it's slim pickings. I count four songs, all of which eventually came out as bonus tracks as part of the archival album "The Traveling Wilburys Collection." So I started with those four. Luckily, and the reason this album is possible, is that different members of this band helped out with various solo albums. Plus, member Jeff Lynne typically did the production, and he had a distinctive sound that he put on everything he produced during this time period. So, if it wasn't an actual Traveling Wilburys song, I limited myself to song where at least two of the band members collaborated, and it had their typical production sound. To help make things clear, I've included who was on each track in the song list. And while I didn't list the songwriters, many of these were collaborations. For instance, the big Roy Orbison hit "You Got It" that starts this album was co-written by Orbison, Petty, and Lynne. I could have included more songs, but I tried to avoid songs that were on very famous albums, such as George Harrison's "Cloud Nine," Tom Petty's "Full Moon Fever," and Bob Dylan's "Oh Mercy" and "Under the Red Sky." For the sources of the other songs, check the mp3 tags. But I'll note I did use some songs from Lynne and Orbison solo albums from around that time. Maybe it's just me with my personal record collection, but those don't seem as overplayed as the songs from the other albums mentioned above. (Certainly, the song from Petty's album are played on the radio a zillion times a day.) I think there's a good mix of songs sung by all the band members, except for Dylan. He's heard some here and there, but not as much as the others. That's not too surprising, since he's tended to do his own thing for his long music career. I've added an early, unreleased version of his song "Everything Is Broken" as a bonus track, just in case you want to up the amount of Dylan on the album. But it's only a bonus track because it doesn't have any of the other Wilburys on it. I considered using the Dylan song "Under the Red Sky" because it has a Harrison guitar solo on it, but I ultimately decided against it because it didn't have that Jeff Lynne-esque sound all the other songs have. The last song is somewhat unusual because it comes from a solo album by Jim Horn, a saxophone player who is a long-time session musician. I've included it because, although it's mostly an instrumental, it has vocals by Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne only (Horn doesn't sing at all). Those vocals have that exact Traveling Wilburys sound, and the production is by Lynne, also making it fit sonically with the rest. Using the audio editing program X-Minus, I boosted the vocals some (so that's why there's "[Edit]" in the song title). This album is 51 minutes long, not including the bonus track. 01 You Got It (Roy Orbison with Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne) 02 Cheer Down (George Harrison with Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne) 03 Runaway (Traveling Wilburys) 04 A Love So Beautiful (Roy Orbison with Jeff Lynne & George Harrison) 05 Poor Little Girl (George Harrison with Jeff Lynne) 06 Lift Me Up (Jeff Lynne with George Harrison) 07 Nobody's Child (Traveling Wilburys) 08 California Blue (Roy Orbison with Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne) 09 Cockamamie Business (George Harrison with Jeff Lynne) 10 Don't Treat Me like a Stranger (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers with Jeff Lynne) 11 Like a Ship (Traveling Wilburys) 12 Blown Away (Jeff Lynne with Tom Petty) 13 Maxine (Traveling Wilburys) 14 Work It Out [Edit] (Jim Horn with Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne) Everything Is Broken [Early Version] (Bob Dylan) https://www.imagenetz.de/aEhDQ For the cover art, I found a promotional photo of the band taken around the time of the release of their first album. There's a famous logo of the band name, but looking at the band's official website, I noticed a different band name logo. So I used that one, then added "Volume Two" with a similar font to some of it.
Robbie Robertson and The Band's "The Weight" was recorded by Aretha Franklin, John Denver and Rickie Lee Jones.
A new Bob Dylan album release brings back memories of Japan and other travel memories for multi-instrumentalist David Mansfield.
As the Cold War cooled into something like an uneasy truce, songwriters like Warren Zevon, David Bowie, John Cale, Bob Dylan, and Steely Dan's Donald Fagen addressed world events and the cultural malaise of the period, constituting Late Cold War style in their vivid songs.
One of the first American superstars, Hank Williams, was what every country songwriter has been compared to since his death on New Year's Day 1953. The 29-year-old represented the common person with lyrics evoking pain, sorrow, and loneliness. His early demise led to a legacy featuring a collection of near-perfect recordings that was never tainted by the upcoming changing of musical styles so many of his contemporaries faced. Let's look at five fascinating facts about Hank Williams.
50 years after it was released, Bob Dylan's Planet Waves (released 1/17/74) can still elicit markedly opposing reactions upon successive
Photo by Henry Diltz, Courtesy of Gary Strobl at the Diltz Archive In 1974 George Harrison gave a press conference in Beverly Hills at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel that I attended when he was p…
Singer, songwriter and artist who was a quick-witted ‘master of the revels’ during Bob Dylan’s 1960s rise to worldwide fame
The Pogues legendary frontman Shane MacGowan said his new book, The Eternal Buzz & The Crock of Gold airs his “dirty laundry” at its launch in Ballsbridge, Dublin, this evening.
FM broadcast of Bob Dylan, Neil Young & The Band on 3/23/1975 at the SNACK Benefit in Kezar stadium, San Francisco CA. The entire concert was broadcast...
Bob Dylan and The Band played some of the most controversial music in history, then laid the groundwork for Americana.
Photo taken from The Band official Facebook page Epic Songs for Monday So beautiful, so amazing, enjoy and play it loud!
Founder of The Animals, party buddy of Hendrix and Morrison and hero to Springsteen, Eric Burdon is a bluesman, a rogue and a survivor, and this is his story
Shea's Performing Arts Center hosts 'Girl from the North Country,' a Bob Dylan musical capturing the struggles of the Great Depression through the lives of a guesthouse's inhabitants.
Judge Riley, Ransom Knowling, along with guitarist Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup, cut five songs that changed 20th-century music.
'Fairytale of New York' has become on of the most iconic Christmas anthems, which materialised as a way of breaking-up some of the perkier perennial favourites.
Amanda Petrusich remembers the influential musician David Crosby, of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, and Nash, who recently died at the age of eighty-one.
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Spring is in full flush, so Clash has decided to revisit George Harrison's abiding passion - gardening.Sure, t
His life was as short and sweet as his songs, but who was the Lubbock rocker whose influence over popular music will not fade away?
Introducing The Acoustic Disc Podcast - Acoustic Encounters with David Grisman & Danny Barnes.
