V.A. Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan Volume Twenty

This thirty-TWO volume series features artists covering Bob Dylan songs. All of the tracks are recordings of independent origin (ROIO) and hence officially unreleased.

This volume, one of the best thus far, includes a version of Dylan's never-recorded (?) early sixties tune "Love is Just a Four-Letter Word" done by Joan Baez.

It also includes a live take of Bryan Ferry's legendary cover of "A Hard's Rain's A-Gonna Fall".

Not to mention, The Alarm's glorious take on "Knockin on Heaven's Door".

01 Song to Woody – Wizz Jones (Live 1989 or 1990, Dublin, Ireland) [Included on a cassette-only official release and therefore deleted.]
02 Troubled And I Don’t Know Why – Hayes Carll (Sep 17, 2005, Third Floor Cantina, Bryan, TX)
03 Trust Yourself – Bottle Rockets (Sep 1, 2006, Azkena Rock Festival, Vitoria, Spain)
04 Down in the Flood – Dave Alvin, Peter Case and Chris Smither (Aug 31, 2003, Strawberry Music Festival, Camp Mather CA)
05 Open the Door, Homer – Robyn Hitchcock (Feb 3, 1992, Mountain Stage, Charleston, WV)
06 You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere – Chris Hillman with Emmylou Harris (Apr 11, 1991, American Music Shop, Nashville, TN)
07 Moonlight – Maria Muldaur (Jan 13, 2007, Prairie Home Companion, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CA)
08 I Must Love You Too Much – The Band (May 10, 1996, Rialto Theater, Tucson, AZ)
09 Love is Just a Four Letter Word – Joan Baez (Jun 1977, Palladium, New York, NY)
10 Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts – Robert Hunter (May 8, 1997 Palace Theatre, Albany, NY)
11 Man Gave Names to the Animals – Jerry Douglas Band with Tim O’Brien and Maura O’Connell (Nov 14, 1998, Lebanon Opera House, Lebanon, NH)
12 The Man in Me – The Frames (Oct 22, 2005, Park West, Chicago, IL)
13 Born in Time – Eric Clapton (Mar 30, 1998, Target Center, Minneapolis, MN)
14 All Along the Watchtower – Willie Nile (Jul 19, 1996, Pitea, Sweden)
15 Shelter From the Storm – Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (Aug 14, 1999, Speyer, Germany)
16 Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – The Alarm (Apr 12, 1986, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA)
17 Hard Rain – Bryan Ferry (May 1977, Sydney, Australia)


Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan Volume Twenty link is in the comments

Speaking of comments, if you'd like the series to continue* please don't forget to leave some words about these volumes.

* I do believe your words here have helped inspire Jeff to begin the series again!

Thanks to Jeffs98119 for compiling these and to obatik for the images.

• For V.'s 1-19 of Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan go here
  

• For slugline's impressive spreadsheet of the whole series go here

• For stewART's excellent alternate cover art go here

The English Beat: 12" Beat

Here's a batch of English Beat 12" rarities, including re-mixes, dub versions, live tracks etc. (This particular bootleg overlaps somewhat with the second disc of the now out-of-print collection, B.P.M.

1. Doors Of Your Heart (Dub)
2. Drowning (Dub)
3. Hands off She's Mine
4. Hit It
5. I Confess
6. I Confess (Live)
7. Jeanette
8. March Of The Swivelheads (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
9. Psycadelic Rockers (Dubweiser)
10. Save It For Later
11. Spar Wid Me (Live)
12. Too Nice To Talk To (Dubweiser)
13. Twist And Crawl
14. Whats Your Best Thing

12" Beat material is available one Edsel Records and Shout Factory.

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The English Beat: Live in Amsterdam, 1980

Okay, fans of the Beat (English or not) here's an FM broadcast of a rockin' show from the boys circa 1980.

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The English Beat: Unity Rockers

Many of us who Just Can't Stop It (jumping about like idiots that is) when we hear the first English Beat album struggle with the rest of their catalog. Wha'ppen is an enjoyable calypso-reggae-pop record and Special Beat Service is one of the finer pop albums of the eighties but they both suffer from drastically diminished amounts of the driving ska-punk fusion that so invigorated their debut.

Whatever your Beat bias, you'll find something to your liking on this crisp-as-hell but never officially released recording of their show at The Hammersmith Palais in October of 1982.

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The English Beat: Peel Sessions

Since The Beat was a kinda dull band name shared by two very exciting late-seventies acts, North Americans got a rushing power-pop band named Paul Collin's Beat and a roaring ska-punk one christened, The English Beat. Nomenclaturaly, I'd say The English Beat won out as theirs was a peculiarly English beat, with rhythms learned from American R&B and Jamaican ska interpolated into the relentless forward-motion of the English strain of punk rock.

These three Peel Sessions show their early punkifed-ska sound as well as their later, smoother pop side, both of which are to be treasured for somewhat different reasons.

November 5, 1979
1. Tears Of A Clown
2. Ranking Full Stop
3. Click Click
4. Mirror In The Bathroom
5. Big Shot

September 22, 1980
6. Too Nice To Talk To
7. New Psychedelic Rockers
8. Monkey Murders
9. Walk Away

March 29, 1982
10. Spar Wid Me
11. She's Going She's Gone
12. Save It For Later
13. Pato And Roger A-Go Talk
14. Sole Salvation

Peel Session are available on Edsel Records and Shout Factory.

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