Last spring Mumford & Sons, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros embarked on the Railroad Revival Tour , which saw the three bands traverse the country together via vintage train cars. The throwback tour, which got its inspiration from the famed 1970 Festival Express tour that transported the likes of the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and The Band across Canada, began in Oakland and ended in New Orleans, stopped in six cities along the cross-country route, where the bands performed at a series of unique outdoor venues. The entire experience of traveling, living and performing over the course ...

Lukas Nelson and Bob Weir at TRI, via the TRI Facebook page Bob Weir sat in with Lukas Nelson and his band at San Francisco, CA’s The Independent last night. The Grateful Dead/Furthur guitarist joined Nelson—one of Willie Nelson’s sons—for Bob Dylan’s “M...

About two weeks ago, a massive set of Bob Dylan covers compiled to honor 50 years of Amnesty International—4 discs, 73 tracks and 73 different artists—hit shelves.  Sure, it’s fascinating to see an expansive and eclectic roster that includes old-timers like Pete Townsend, Jeff Beck and Mark Knopfler alongside relative newcomers like The Gaslight Anthem, [...]

The enigma that is Paul McCartney . He is the writer of some of the best pop songs in history, melodist extraordinaire and the go to guy if you need a headliner for a charity festival. He has also not been able to recreate the magic of his earlier compositions in his recent work. It’s not that surprising really; he no longer has to compete with John Lennon and trying to better himself is, to be fair, one big ask. He’s also not twenty-five anymore, although age shouldn’t really be an excuse as Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and ...

A welcome addition to the legendary, late blues singer's slender discography, the home recordings captured on 1966 prove that the ample posthumous praise attracted by the vocalist who Bob Dylan called "the best singer in the place" (the location being New York in the early 60's, a time and a place with no shortage of great singers if there ever was one) is entirely justified.

Bob Dylan is a thief. This is not an indictment. Read even a little about Dylan’s early years in the New York folk scene—or watch Martin Scorsese ’s documentary No Direction Home —and you’ll find a good number of grumbling contemporaries with stories to tell about how the man formerly known as Robert Zimmerman stole from them. He swiped vintage record collections, and arrangements of old folk songs (which on the hootenanny circuit was tantamount to taking someone else’s act). Even his stage name was stolen, from Dylan Thomas. But that’s showbiz. Performers build on ...

California duo Tashaki Miyaki do a rainy-day 50’s pop/early 90’s alterna-gaze hybrid version of Uncle Bob’s 1970 song “If Not For You”. The song’s warm but far-off female vocal and laid back production values will definitely remind of Mazzy Star. Listen. Tashaki Miyaki - If Not For You (Bob Dylan) Tashaki Miyaki (Facebook) Rating 8.4

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Die Indie-Folker von Mumford & Sons melden sich mit einer Tour-Doku namens "Big Easy Express" zurück. Das abenteuerliche Material stammt von der 2011er Railroad Revival-Tour der Briten. Gemeinsam mit den Genre-Kollegen Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros und Old Crow Medicine Show fuhren sie durch die Vereinigten Staaten. Besonders daran ist, dass sie nicht mit dem Bus oder dem Flugzeug reisten, sondern in einem klassischen Zug die USA durchquerten. Sie bereisten dabei sechs Städte und legten mehrere Tausend Kilometer zurück. Der Film wird beim diesjährigen SXSW Film Festival Premiere feiern. Hier schon einmal der Trailer, der zu den Klängen der Bands die ...

Willis Earl Beal has unveiled new track 'Take Me Away' - taken from his upcoming album. Willis Earl Beal is a voice from the fringes of society. At one point homeless, living life without the essentials in human comfort the artist has managed to scrape and push his way into the limelight. 'Evening's Kiss' was a superb introduction - and was made Track Of The Day on this here website - with Willis Earl Beal set to release his debut album 'Acousmatic Sorcery' via XL offshoot Hot Charity on April 2nd. The hand drawn album artwork has emerged, with Willis Earl Beal ...

Counting Crows will release their first album of new material in over four years on April 10, 2012 via Collective Sounds. Underwater Sunshine (or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation) is a collection of covers described as “a testament of a band geek-obsessed with music.” “There’s a mil...

Dolled up like a carefree ’70s singer (not unlike Taylor Swift in the current issue of Vogue), Miley Cyrus took to the Ellen DeGeneres Show’s stage for a performance of Bob Dylan’s “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go”. The LOL star was accompanied by one acoustic guitar, which made her vocals the focal ... More »

The Chieftains vuelven, y lo hacen con un disco que conmemora su 50 aniversario. Exacto, la banda lanzó su primer trabajo en 1963, apenas un año después de formarse en Irlanda, y que saquen un nuevo trabajo en 2012 no es más que la confirmación de que cuando hay buenas ideas, las bandas pueden durar décadas. Y para aportar algo de frescura a esas ideas se han rodeado de un puñado de buenos artistas entre los que estan Bon Iver, Pistol Annies o The Decemberist, con quienes han grabado una...

Traveling Wilburys : Handle with Care [ purchase ] 1988 was Roy Orbison's big year. It started with Cinemax special, A Black and White Night, which aired in January. A diverse set of artists, including Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt and Bruce Springsteen, formed an all-star band, backing the man who perfected the art of the rock power ballad. Orbison started out as a Sun rocker. After shifting to the nascent Monument label in the early 1960s, he had a long string of hits -- "Pretty Woman," "Only the Lonely," and "In Dreams" among them -- but personal tragedies put an end to ...

I became aware of Gretchen Peters when I heard One to the Heart, One to the Head , a covers album she released with one of my favorite singer/songwriters Tom Russell. I was impressed by their take on many great country-folk songs, from Bob Dylan to Townes Van Zandt, and Peters’ smoky vocals contrasting with [...]