Artist : Bryan Ferry
Album : Dylanesque
Label : Virgin/EMI
Genre : Rock
Bitrate : 182 kbps avg
Source : CD (LP)
Playtime : 00:42:30 (58 MB)
Rls date : 2007-02-16
Store date : 2007-03-05
[Track List]
1. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 3:50
2. Simple Twist Of Fate 5:18
3. Make You Feel My Love 3:22
4. The Times They Are A-Changin' 3:40
5. All I Really Wanna Do 2:29
6. Knocking On Heaven's Door 6:14
7. Positively 4th Street 3:45
8. If Not For You 2:41
9. Baby Let Me Follow You Down 2:13
10.Gates Of Eden 5:12
11.All Along The Watchtower 3:46
Bryan Ferry is to release æDylanesqueÆ, an album of
Bob Dylan cover songs, this Spring.
The Roxy Music front man is a longtime fan of the great
man Dylan having first recorded a swaggering version of
ôA Hard RainÆs A-Gonna Fallö in 1973.
Ferry says recording the new album has always been an ambition,
saying, "I just thought it would be great to make a whole album
of Dylan songs. And at the end of last year, finally, it happened."
æDylanesqueÆ features eleven Dylan songs, recorded in just one
week in the studio with his full touring band backing him. Ferry
says, "I wanted to get away from that locked-in-the-studio feeling.
We were doing live vocals, harmonica, live everything."
Ferry has changed the moods and temper of the songs, protest song
æThe Times They Are A-ChanginÆ is no longer just that. Ferry tells
us "The way I do it doesn't mean it isn't a protest songà this song
can be whatever you want it to be. I grew up with the jazz idea that
you could do a song in many different ways."
Other tracks Ferry has tackled include, 'Just Like Tom Thumb's
Blues,' 'Simple Twist of Fate,' æAll I Really Want To DoÆ and
æPositively 4th Street.Æ
Guest musicians also appear on the covers album û Brian Eno provides
"sonic enhancements" on æIf Not For YouÆ and The Dirty ThreeÆs Warren
Ellis brings a string arrangement to æPositively 4th Street.Æ
Ferry also tackles æKnocking On Heaven's DoorÆ admitting that
ô[it] was a risky one, because it's been covered so many times
by different people. With All Along The Watchtower there was a nod
to Hendrix as well as Dylan. The backing track was done about eight
years ago, just an acoustic guitar played by Robin Trower, bass, drums
and me. I kept looking at it and thinking, one day I've got to finish
that..."
æDylanesqueÆ is released on Virgin Records on March 5.