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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. All Along the Watchtower - Eddie Vedder & The Million Dollar Bashers | |||
| 2. I'm Not There - Sonic Youth | |||
| 3. Goin' To Acapulco - Jim James & Calexico | |||
| 4. Tombstone Blues - Richie Havens | |||
| 5. Ballad Of a Thin Man - Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers | |||
| 6. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again - Cat Power | |||
| 7. Pressing On - John Doe | |||
| 8. Fourth Time Around - Yo La Tengo | |||
| 9. Dark Eyes - Iron & Wine & Calexico | |||
| 10. Highway 61 Revisited - Karon O & the Million Dollar Bashers | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. As I Went Out One Morning - Mira Billotte | |||
| 2. Can't Leave Her Behind - Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers | |||
| 3. Ring Them Bells - Sufjan Stevens | |||
| 4. Just Like a Woman - Charlotte Gainsbourg & Calexico | |||
| 5. Medley: Mama, You've Been On My Mind/A Fraction Of Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie - Jack Johnson | |||
| 6. I Wanna Be Your Lover - Yo La Tengo | |||
| 7. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova | |||
| 8. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? - The Hold Steady | |||
| 9. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliott | |||
| 10. The Wicked Messenger - The Black Keys | |||
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Product Description
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Many people have covered Bob Dylan's songs over the years, but few quite like this. On the double-disc soundtrack that accompanies Todd Haynes' extremely confounding biopic of the already plenty confounding folk icon, we get the likes of Sonic Youth, Cat Power, Yo La Tengo, the Hold Steady, and Antony & The Johnsons doing their best Dylan impressions and often failing gloriously. Former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus does a particularly fine job oozing his way through "Ballad of a Thin Man," while Wilco's Jeff Tweedy draws the moody beauty out of "Simple Twist of Fate," and Sufjan Stevens lends his typically baroque touch to "Ring Them Bells." Special credit has to go to the Million Dollar Bashers, the unofficial house band that includes Steve Shelley on drums, John Medeski on piano, and Tom Verlaine on guitar, along with other notable musicians. The generous track list and dynamic set of contributors promises that this album will provide plenty of awe long after the film itself has been forgotten. --Aidin Vaziri
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5.0 out of 5 stars
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This is an awesome compilation.. All star line up.. A very well put together project..Best thing I've heard I a while.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Dylan Re-Done: Uneven but Wonderful,
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I've come to think of Bob Dylan as the Homer of modern pop, rock, folk and alt country music. As such, his songs have the universality, depth and resiliancy to allow for other artists to re-examine and re-interpret his material. That's what's going on in this huge collection of thirty-two covers. Some of the artists included have the chops to pull it off and bring something new to the songs; some don't. Nevertheless, this is a collection worth owning, both for die-hard Dylan fans, and for those who either ain't quite sure or are just being introduced to his particular genius.The songs range from the classic ("Just Like a Woman")to the relatively obscure ("I Dreamed I Saw St.Augustine")and are drawn from almost all stages of Dylan's career, except perhaps the most recent. The artists include those in the mainstream, like Jack Johnson, indie notables like Calexico and Cat Powers,and those unknown to most. Just who is Mira Brillotte? Her version of "As I Went Out One Morning" is wonderful. There are some surprises and delights to be found amoung the thirty two tracks-- the old folkie, Ramblin Jack Elliot, does an amazing blue-grassy rendition of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", and Antony and the Johnsons truly rescue and reinvent the three-cord cliche of "Knockin'on Heaven's Door." Mason Jennings delivers the heart-breaking "Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" with unadorned honesty. And yes, there are also some forgettable tracks, including a couple that might make you want to press the "skip" button as fast as you can. But that's O.K. What you loose on the swings, you more than make up on the merry-go-round. Here's what you do: buy the collection and burn a compilation of your favorite tracks. Play them over and over and over.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Surprisingly good,
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The intricate guitar work on All Along The Watchtower makes Eddie Vedder's a respectable rock cover, while Sonic Youth's interpretation of I'm Not There has a vaguely menacing start that morphs into the melancholy; it's quite unusual to hear this band doing a tender ballad with such feeling. The style changes to appealingly arranged country-folk with Jim James & Calexico on Going Down To Acapulco and stays in that genre as Richie Havens performs a jittery take of Tombstone Blues.Stephen Malkmus' mid-tempo Ballad of a Thin Man impresses with its instrumental flourishes, Cat Power's Memphis Blues likewise charms with its instrumentation and Yo La Tengo's Fourth Time Around is a sensitive understated gem. The mood turns exotic on Dark Eyes with its oriental-sounding percussion, then explodes exuberantly on Karen O's edgy Highway 61 Revisited. Roger McGuinn & Calexico does a subdued but moving version of One More Cup of Coffee whilst The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll gets a typical acoustic guitar singer-songwriter treatment by Mason Jennings. I love the swirling, uptempo Billy by Los Lobos as well as Mark Lanegan's brooding Man in the Long Black Coat. Mira Bilotte takes a pop approach to As I Went Out One Morning but it pales beside Malkmus & Lee Ranaldo's brief but atmospheric Can't Leave Her Behind and Sufjan Stevens' memorable Ring Them Bells with its frequent tempo changes. Just Like a Woman is sung in a soft, whispery voice by Charlotte Gainsbourg while the ecstatic I Wanna Be Your Lover by Yo La Tengo stands out. Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova's old-style folkie You Ain't Goin' Nowhere is quite appealing but Ramblin' Jack Elliott's bluegrass rendition of Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues is a real treasure, soulful and absorbing. The hard-rock Wicked Messenger and Tom Verlaine's sleepy Cold Irons Bound don't resonate much with me, nor does Mason Jennings' The Times They Are A Changing which attempts to imitate Dylan's original with harmonica and all. It's a matter of taste; no tracks are really bad and there's plenty of variety. Overall, this is a surprisingly appealing album and a fitting tribute to Dylan. The most devoted fans and purists will probably reject the album outright but I've found many tracks of merit and as mentioned before, there's no total disaster anywhere. In its diversity, it brings to mind the Leonard Cohen tribute soundtrack I'm Your Man.
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