Tweet For anyone who's a fan of The Basement Tapes , or good music for that matter, I highly recommend downloading A Tree with Roots . I recently re-listened to The Basement Tapes , decided it was in the top five albums ever made, then, thirsty for more, proceeded to waste away countless hours tracking down this surprisingly hard to find bootleg of Dylan and The Band's sessions at The Band's house Big Pink. Here they zealously laid down [...]
On the fifth day of Rocktober, someone gave to me....five Dylan bootlegs! Enjoy. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?.mp3 From : Highway 61 Revisited Again (outtakes, 1965) I'm Not There.mp3 From : A Tree With Roots (1967) Big River.mp3 (with The Band ) From : The Genuine Basement Tapes, Vol. 5 (1967) Rock Me Momma.mp3 From : Genuine [...]
Bob Dylan & The Band: Bourbon Street A bit more of the old Bob Dylan/The Band collaboration previously discussed here . This was recorded during the sessions in Woodstock in 1967, and has only been released on bootleg compilations such as The Genuine Basement Tapes and From the Reels - Complete Basements . If you want to know what sound you'd get if you pressed a trombone against the lips of a snoring, drunken hobo, this is the song for you.
321 Week begins. This little chat with Quail Lungs is the 321st of our 321 interviews, so we're dedicating a few days to the discussion of facts, songs and wishes. Listen to ramshackle declarations from Quail Lungs and his crack'd heart, then after the jump he talks about the Kinks, Dylan and coming down.
Photography by Herky It's Friday but it's a gloomy, cloudy, and busy one, meaning the sooner we get this day done and start our weekend, the better! Personally, I can't think of a better way to finish off this week than with the shot of throat burnin' bourbon in an old motel that is Whodat Peckerhead's, from our Facebook community , new mixtape ! YAY! It's a wonderful [...]
Bob Dylan and the Band - " Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) - take 2 " from A Tree with Roots (1967/2001) and Manfred Mann's Earth Band - " Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) " from The Best of Manfred Mann's Earth Band (1996) Rock went through some profound changes in the 1970s: genres like jazz and funk seeped into mainstream sounds, musicians became more proficient with rock instruments, and new technologies like the synthesizer changed the timbre of popular rock. This shift is illustrated well by Bob Dylan's "Quinn [...]
Over the holidays I read through Levon Helm's autobiography, This Wheel's On Fire, which details The Band's long career from the very beginning, when the drummer hooked up with rockabilly barnstormer Ronnie Hawkins, far passed the bitter end of The Last Waltz. The memoir opens with the heartbreak of finding Richard Manuel dead, the wildness that always shown in his eyes as much as in his
Performing "This Wheel's On Fire" by The BandTweaked to tell the story of Guster, this is a shot for shot, line for line remake of our favorite scenes from The Last Waltz (The Greatest Concert Film of All-Time). Created as a promo for The Endless Highway, a tribute album for The Band, this was shot in two days on a shoestring budget. Produced and Directed by D.F. Yonkman for Guster and 429
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness..." --Allen Ginsberg 'Howl & Other Poems (1956) Had he still been alive, Allen Ginsberg would have been 82 years old on 3rd Of June this year, he was one of the greatest poets of the beat generation and a leading light in the....ah, you know who he is. The first song below features Ginsberg and his pal Bob Dylan. Here is the story in Allen Ginsberg's own words: Vomit Express: "These 1971 sessions came about because Dylan had come [...]
Alright, I'll say it off the bat. This album is amazing. I didn't know what to expect when I turned on Blitzen Trapper 's fourth album Furr and, when I did, I was melodically impressed with a folk tuned wonderland. Blitzen Trapper raised a storm last year with the release of their third album, Wild Mountain Nation , and they only improved with the release of Furr . Lead singer Eric Earley provides us with one of the best sounding Dylan voices of our own generation [...]
Wu-Tang Clan Download From iTunes or Buy From Insound: Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8 (Insound) Castanets: City of Refuge (Insound) Deerhoof - Offend Maggie (iTunes) Department of Eagles - In Ear Park (iTunes) Juana Molina: Un Dia (Insound) Lou Reed - Berlin: Live At St. Ann's Warehouse (iTunes) Wu-Tang Clan: Soundtracks From the Shaolin Temple (CD Universe) [...]
One of the things I like to do here at Setting The Woods On Fire is to compile what I call the "original" version of well-known cover albums. It's no secret that The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo was an important album in the development of country rock. (Read about it here , here , and here .) But you might be surprised to learn that nine of the eleven songs were covers. Listening to earlier versions of the songs covered by The Byrds, along with two originals written by then-member [...]
Thom Yorke Covers: Download (Right-Click Save As) MP3: Thom Yorke- After the Gold Rush (Bridge School) MP3: M. Ward - Green River MP3: Jim James and Calexico - Goin' To Acapulco MP3: Galactic - Immigrant Song MP3: Feist - Nothin' In The World Can... Originals: Download (Right-Click Save As) MP3: Neil Young - After The [...]
Bob Dylan and the Band - " Tears of Rage - Take 1 ," " Tears of Rage - Take 2 " and " Tears of Rage - Take 3 " from A Tree with Roots [Basement Tapes sessions, 1967] The Band - " Tears of Rage " from Greatest Hits comp [2000], orig. on Music from Big Pink [1968] Happy Independence Day from your patriotic friends at SWR. Here are a few takes of a Dylan/Band classic from A Tree with Roots . A cleaner version [...]
My daughter, Carson, graduated from pre-school today. I had to smile, my wife had to cry and Carson simply looked bemused by it all. When she started pre-school three years ago, all she did was cry. She wouldn't speak, she wouldn't play, she wouldn't do anything but sit next to Teacher Michelle and ask when her Mama was coming back to get her. It had always been a little difficult to understand what Carson was saying. Her speech was always a little slurred. Seems that dropping this beautiful little three-year old into a room full of [...]
Listen/Download: "This Wheel's on Fire" [Artist Website] [Artist Wiki]
It's that time of year again. No, not Memorial Day. It's Bob Dylan's birthday. I've had a few people ask me, "What's up with all the Bob Dylan?" Well, he is Bob Dylan , our greatest living songwriter. Even well into his sixties he continues to write songs as good as anyone else. In fact, he may he just be hitting his stride. The last three records contain some of his best songs. Anyway, trying to explain to someone "What's so good about Bob Dylan?" is like trying to explain "What's so good about the pyramids?" My friend Mike [...]
It's giveaway time again. This time it's a major label recording crammed with "indie" artists... the Robert Allen Zimmerman Bio Pic I'm Not There Soundtrack. It has received plenty of coverage elsewhere, no? In case you are unfamiliar with it, the two discs feature Eddie Vedder , Sonic Youth , Calexico , Cat Power , John Doe , Yo La Tengo , Jeff Tweedy , Mark Lanegan , and Sufjan Stevens among others doing Dylan covers and one song from [...]
Hardcore Dylan-phile nitpicking aside, there is a lot to love about the (official) Basement Tapes. While many of these recordings (from 1967/68) were originally known on the bootleg circuit from the unofficial comp The Great White Wonder, a number of them received overdubs and general sprucing up before being released, seven years later, as [...]
Neil Young - " Revolution Blues " from On the Beach (1974) and Bob Dylan and the Band - " Yazoo Street Scandal " from The Basement Tapes (1967) The Band had one of the strongest rhythm sections in rock and roll (see also the Rolling Stones). Rick Danko had a terrific talent for creating rollicking bass lines while Levon Helm kept the tune rolling assertively forward. They were, in my opinion, an ideal mix of competence and confidence. You can hear this well in the two enclosed songs: [...]
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Rockstar Aimz
Star Maker Machine
Pinglewood.com
T S U R U R A D I O
So Well Remembered
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The Ghost Of Electricity
Sweetheart of the Radio
PopWreck(oning)
Rollo & Grady
Setting The Woods On Fire
Fusion 45
Dead Flowers
Boogie Woogie Flu
GIMME TINNITUS
An Aquarium Drunkard
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