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The BEST COLLABORATIONS of 2011 (The Year-End Awards)
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
By Chris Moore:
The following artists are being recognized for their notable collaborations. Had they not worked together, their tracks and, in some cases, albums would not have been nearly as successfully rendered. Wanda Jackson and Jack White have to earn the top mention for the comeback release of the year. Jackson was once a hitmaker, a notable player in the rockabilly scene (dating Elvis Presley for a time), but I certainly hadn’t heard of her before this year. With White’s electric leads and the fitting arrangements that walk the line between classic and modern, The Party Ain’t Over makes good on the claim in its title.
Beyond this collaboration, the others on this list are more traditional. 8in8 was a cool idea: get together to write, record, and release eight tracks in eight hours as a way of showing just how much the music industry has changed in even the past several years. Gillian Welch’s role, dueting on the Decemberists’ The King is Dead, was a vital one, just as Norah Jones and Jack White added their vocals to a couple tracks and elevated the Rome soundtrack. I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out and praise the (brief) reunion of Ben Folds Five, just as much as if I didn’t note that some of the tracks on The King is Dead have a strongly R.E.M.-esque vibe to them at least in part because Peter Buck is playing on them.
1) Wanda Jackson and Jack White (The Party Ain’t Over)
2) Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman, and Damian Kulash (8in8)
3) The Decemberists and Gillian Welch (various tracks on The King is Dead)
4) Danger Mouse, Daniele Luppi, Norah Jones, and Jack White (Rome: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
5) Ben Folds, Darren Jesse, and Robert Sledge (as Ben Folds Five for three new recordings)
6) Norah Jones and Hank Williams (“How Many Times Have You Broken My Heart”)
7) The Decemberists and Peter Buck (various tracks on The King is Dead)
8) Bob Dylan and Hank Williams (“The Love That Faded”)
9) Kevin Hearn and Garth Hudson (“The House of Invention”)
10) Lupe Fiasco and Matt Mahaffey (“State Run Radio”)
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“Lay Lady Lay” (Bob Dylan Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
Originally posted 2007-12-16 18:28:07.
By Jim Fusco:
Back again for more Laptop Sessions! It’s been a while, but now that the planning is finally done for our annual Christmas/New Year’s party, I’ll be back doing more sessions more often! So, today, I’m actually putting four new videos online, as these were salvaged from my last laptop’s hard drive before it died. Props to me, though, because I uploaded these to my web space before the hard drive crashed!
“Lay Lady Lay” is an oddity. If you listen to Dylan’s Greatest Hits/Best Of compilations, you’ll notice that this song stands out from the rest because of, dare I say it, his good voice! For the album “Nashville Skyline” (one of my favorites), he decided to try a new style of singing and playing. Chris and I put a new spin on this song with a guitar solo, and I hope everyone likes what we’ve done with it, especially because it took about 34 takes!
Stay tuned for part 2 of today’s 4 part Laptop Sessions extravaganza!
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Bob Dylan FREE mp3! – “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’” from his forthcoming album, Together Through Life!
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
Originally posted 2009-03-30 21:20:29.
For the lyrics, chords, and cover song music video, CLICK HERE!
By Chris Moore:
Hurry! Don’t wait! There’s only three more hours to surf over to bobdylan.com and download the free mp3 of the new Dylan song “Beyond Here Lies Nothin.’” It’s track one off of the upcoming release of Together Through Life, an album that will hit the shelves on Tuesday, April 28th, 2009.
When I woke up this morning to an email from Bob Dylan’s official website, I was pretty excited. After all, this is a sneak peak at the album a full month before I thought I would hear any of the new songs. Of course, there are other ways to find previews, such as searching YouTube for live versions of the new songs.
But I’d rather wait and be surprised.
The best part of this track is that, as the first song on the album, “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’” will be the first song you hear on the new album when you put the CD in (or download the album), then the rest of the songs will be brand new. If it were track five, for instance, you would listen to several new songs and then come across a song you know before getting back to more new ones.
Anyway, get yourself over to bobdylan.com and check this song out before it’s too late. This is a deal that only comes around for 24 hours… Well, until April 28th, of course!
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“Tonight I’ll Be Stayin’ Here With You” (Bob Dylan Acoustic Rock Cover Songs – Triple Threat Tuesday!!) – The Laptop Sessions
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
Originally posted 2008-06-24 16:44:21.
By Chris Moore:
Hello and welcome to not only another Laptop Session music video, but also a special treat from the three songwriters who bring you an acoustic cover a day EVERY day in 2008…
This is a little something we like to call Triple Threat Tuesday. What this means is today you will receive not one, not two, not four, but THREE video blog entries. Each video will be a cover version of Bob Dylan’s 1969 song “Tonight I’ll Be Stayin’ Here With You.” It’s such a great track that we couldn’t agree on just one person to record an acoustic cover of it… so all three of us will take a stab at it! This song originally appeared on the first fully country-rock Dylan album, appropriately titled Nashville Skyline. This album is filled with very simple, upbeat, and brief (under 3 minutes each) songs, not to mention they’re all sung in his “Lay, Lady, Lay” voice and Johnny Cash himself makes a special guest appearance on the opening track. I’ve heard better duets, but there are few things better than hearing two giants like Cash and Dylan harmonize (however loosely) on such a great song as “Girl from the North Country.” Dylan actually originally released that song on his 1962 acoustic album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.
Personally, my favorite version of this song is Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue version, recorded in 1975 and released in the Bootleg series. He changes the words around and, although they’re a bit more blunt than the original, I love them and think they work well for this acoustic cover rendition. But that’s the beauty of cover songs — they give songwriters like us endless opportunities to perfect our own skills and to end some of our own style to the track. For instance, I can bet that Jim’s version will be faithful to the original, as he loves that album. He could have bet money that I would go for the obscure live lyrics, since I love Bob Dylan and have probably heard more live versions of this song than the average person should.
As Jim explained yesterday, I must follow up — it’s great to be back online. This music blog has been a lot of work for us and I can’t imagine losing the session – a – day promise this far into the game! We’re building more and more each day, and now that I’m on summer break from teaching, I’ll be able to devote all my attention toward my creative pursuits.
See you next session!
Download a FREE mp3 of this song at the Fusco-Moore Store by
Clicking HERE! It’s on “The Laptop Sessions, Vol. 8″:
Jeff’s version (sorry – this is my first Bob Dylan cover – be nice to me!)
Jim’s version: Recorded the night of, using my new video filters and amazing USB microphone- just listen to the audio quality of this acoustic cover song!
Download a FREE mp3 of this song at the Fusco-Moore Store by
Clicking HERE! It’s on “The Laptop Sessions, Vol. 4″:
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