76 newly recorded Bob Dylan songs by over 80 artists are scheduled for physical (4 discs) and digital release tomorrow, January 24, 2012. Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan features a stellar and diverse group of artists across the generational and musical spectrum. The performers, including many of Amnesty International's longtime supporters, range in age from pop star Miley Cyrus, 19, to folk music legend Pete Seeger, who, at 92, records Dylan's poignant "Forever Young," with a children's chorus. The diversity of the musicians and musical genres [...]
Various Artists - Chimes of Freedom - Massive 75-track box set of Bob Dylan covers is also, appropriately, an equally massive charity album benefiting the human rights activism of Amnesty International, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization ...an impressive array of contributors, from My Morning Jacket to Steve Earle to Lucinda Williams, from Sting to Mark Knopfler to Diana Krall, from Elvis Costello to Sugarland to Pete Townshend, all come together for a diverse -- and occasionally head scratching (Miley Cyrus?) -- collection of Dylan compositions // Release : Chimes of Freedom: The [...]
Listen to all four discs of new Dylan covers from My Morning Jacket, Patti Smith, Kesha, Queens of the Stone Age, the Avett Brothers, the Gaslight Anthem, and dozens more!
As previously reported, Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International is the name of Amnesty International's 75-track, 4-disc Bob Dylan tribute album , comprised of new or previously unreleased Dylan covers from Adele, My Morning Jacket, Queens of the Stone Age, Silversun Pickups, The Gaslight Anthem, Patti Smith, Dave Matthews Band, Sting, Joan Baez, Bryan Ferry, The Who's Pete Townshend, Sinéad O'Connor, Elvis Costello, Pete Seeger, Fistful of Mercy, Bad Religion, Mark Knopfler, Cage the Elephant, and, of course, Miley Cyrus and Ke$ha. The collection will be released in North [...]
"I Want It Back" arrives via Mercury , the superb, intimate -- and, well, mercurial -- new album from alt/folk and Americana songwriter Pieta Brown . "The song itself is a simple love song about longing," says the soft-spoken Iowan as she dedicates the song to the Occupy movement, "...about wanting things back...like the feeling of a coherent country--a country where people from different places and ways of thinking try to work together..." After Brown toured with former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler -- who describes Brown's singing as [...]
First things first, I must inevitably apologise for the horrendous lateness of this podcast. Between my mum visiting, the gig on Sunday and the Samantha Crain Toad Session we recorded on Monday there just hasn't been enough time to catch up. It's that end of year time, too, when lists are being made, accounts submitted, the last releases of the year tended to and plans for next year being finalised, so just when I thought that I could coast into Christmas, it turns out I actually have just as much work now as at any other time of [...]
Get the Full Tracklist on the Upcoming Bob Dylan Amnesty International Tribute Album.
Last month we told you of an upcoming Bob Dylan tribute album being put together in celebration of Amnesty International's 50th anniversary. At the time, My Morning Jacket, Adele, David Matthews Band, and Ke$ha were among the confirmed participants. Now, the set's entire tracklist has been revealed, and Ke$ha's cover of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" is just the beginning of the insanity. Spanning four discs and 75 tracks (!!!) , Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International packages together new or previously unreleased Dylan covers from artist of all different genres [...]
Billed in all but name as a rock dinosaur double-header, Bob Dylan and Mark Knopfler's opening show of their joint European tour is no doubt one for blues fans with deep pockets. Blues music- American roots music, in general- flows deep for both Dylan and Knopfler, the latter exploring American roots music more ardently since he left Dire Straits in 1995. Indeed, Knopfler produced and collaborated with Dylan on the latter's 1979 and 1983 records, Slow Train Coming and Infidels , respectively, at a time when Dylan's career had hit its nadir and Knopfler was about to [...]
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When Paloma and I got together, she brought two felines with her, Coltrane and Sam. Coltrane was petite and graceful, quiet and sphinx-like with her black fur giving her an air of elegance. As for Sam, I must confess that I didn't think much of her. She had heft to her and didn't so much enter the room as charge into it like some wild animal rumbling from the underbrush. (Paloma would often suggest - only half-jokingly - that she might indeed be part badger) Sam didn't strike me as particularly bright, [...]
Over the last seven years, Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris quietly recorded an album by stealing "a few precious hours of studio time here and there," as the ex-Dire Straits singer/guitarist puts... Download your favourite album at The Mood Indicator
Thomas Dolby returns after 20 years with a new EP of three great songs!
It's crazy to think that all the way back in August 1987 this was the first video to air on MTV Europe. It is also crazy to think that the song's first person narrative caused some controversy. It's probably not very hip to like Dire Straits anymore but Mark Knopfler and co delivered some gems. [...]
( Photo credit: Thomas Dolby by Arthur Mouratidis, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons ) Thomas Dolby might best be introduced by TED , where the musician is acknowledged for "blinding us with science," before mention is made of his propensity to have "always blurred the lines between composition and invention." Since first assuming his place as one of the pioneering stars of MTV in the early '80s, Dolby, born Thomas Robertson, has led—and this is to put it lightly—an unconventional life. Playing an integral role in the development of synthesizer-based pop music throughout the decade, [...]
If it seems like every other CoS post lately is about a film score, it's only because Alex Young dictated that if Kanye Wes t could only appear in half of the site's posts, than the other half must feature news about film scores. Luckily, there is plenty of news to go around on the subject. Some of the news was even 20 years old, like the Eddie Van Halen's score for The Wild Life . But Tron 2 leads a pack of recent or upcoming films to feature original scores from popular musical [...]
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