Exclusive Dylan Covers Cd
Introducing… DYLAN ...REVISITED
Your track-bytrack guide to our exclusive free CD
“B EING asked to cover a Dylan song is quite difficult,” admits Richard Thompson. “You think, ‘How do you do that?’ After all, his personality is so interwoven into the songs.”
Despite the difficulties in reinterpreting Dylan – and the restrictions of various lockdowns around the globe – Thompson and 13 more of our favourite artists have unpicked some of Dylan’s finest songs to help Uncut celebrate his 80th birthday. There are radical reimaginings from Thurston Moore and Fatoumata Diawara, textured soundscapes from Low and Weyes Blood, epic grandeur from Cowboy Junkies and Frazey Ford, and much more. As if that weren’t enough, we’re also proud to unveil a previously unreleased song performed by Dylan himself.
“Something about the odd mixture of paranoia, fervour, desire, faith and darkness feels strangely relevant to me and relevant to this time,” says The Weather Station’s Tamara Lindeman of her pick, “Precious Angel”. “But that’s the way Dylan songs always are – so timeless.”
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Dylan, 1983
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1 BOB DYLAN
Too Late (Acoustic Version)
We lead off with this exclusive and previously unreleased track kindly dug out for Uncut from Dylan’s own archive. Recorded in April 1983 at New York’s Power Station during sessions for Infidels, the song eventually morphed into “Foot Of Pride”, later released on The Bootleg Series Vol 1-3. Raw and urgent, it harks back to Dylan’s earlier work with its rough, jangling guitars and evocative lyrics: “Sing me one more song about your summer romance, or maybe that one about your one-night stand with Errol Flynn…”