Various Artists – Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 25

Various Artists
Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 25 – You Can Always Come Back, But You Can’t Come Back All the Way

To those of you who wanted more NSD, here you go. For those who didn’t, why are you reading this? Big thanks to Sherm, who got in touch out of the blue with “Things Have Changed,” inspiring me to compile another volume.

As always, thanks to the tapers, the original uploaders, the nice folks who’ve sent me recordings, the fine artists who’ve created cover artwork, and especially the performers and composer. Due to the many different sources, I am not including lineages. I have done nothing to the original files but normalize the levels and fade in and out on each track (using Cool Edit). If you’ve got something good, PM me. I suspect more volumes will follow, albeit infrequently.

Enjoy!

01 Things Have Changed – Waylon Jennings (Sep 23, 2000, Lanierland Music Park, Cumming, Georgia)
02 Tangled Up in Blue – T Bone Burnett (Feb 24, 1994, KPFA Studios, Berkeley, CA)
03 You Ain’t Going Nowhere – Steve Wynn, Robert Fisher, Deanna Varagona and Walter Salas-Humara (Jul 5, 2002, The Borderline, London, England)
04 Legionnaire’s Disease – Delta Cross Band (Jun 24, 1980, Tonkraft, Sweden)
05 Ye Playboys and Playgirls – The Jayhawks (Feb 21, 1985, 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN)
06 A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – Uncle Tupelo (Aug 25, 1989, Cicero’s, St. Louis, MO)
07 Mississippi – The Dixie Chicks (July 29, 2006, TD Banknorth Garden, Boston,MA)
08 Forever Young – Watkins Family Hour with Benmont Tench (Mar 22, 2007, Largo, Los Angeles, CA)
09 Percy’s Song – Arlo Guthrie (Dec 3, 1998, The Ark, Ann Arbor, MI)
10 George Jackson/ I Shall Be Released – Joan Baez (May 21, 1977, Orpheum, Boston, MA)
11 Lay Lady Lay – Cassandra Wilson (Jun 30, 2003, Sala Kongresowa, Warsaw, Poland)
12 I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight – Curtis Stigers (Jul 16, 2007, BBC Jazz Awards, Mermaid Theatre, London, England)
13 Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – Jerry Garcia Band with Clarence Clemons (Sep 10, 1989, Great Woods, Mansfield, MA)
14 Death is Not the End – The Waterboys (May 4, 1986, Golddigger’s, Chippenham, England)

Van Morrison & Elvis Costello – London, England (01/28/87)

VAN MORRISON guests Elvis Costello
Royal Albert Hall
London, England
January 28, 1987
Audience Recording

TRACKLIST

01. Announcement
02. What Would I Do
03. Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile)
04. Help Me

MUSICIANS

Elvis Costello
Van Morrison
T Bone Burnett

The Confederates band:
James Burton – lead guitar
Jim Keltner – drums
Jerry Scheff – bass
Benmont Tench – keyboards
T-Bone Wolk – guitar, accordion, mandolin

themysticmuse notes: (2019-06-12)
I got this AUD recording from a serious vantrader as one single WAV file. I’ve split the WAV in separate tracks using adobe audition 2019 and then exported them as flacs, sbe’s fixed in TLH. metadata added to all tracks. no remastering has been made. artwork created and included.
ffp created for the flacs, md5 created to verify all files. enjoy!

LINEAGE: AUD > ? > WAV > tracks split (adobe audition 2019) > FLAC > SBE’s fixed (TLH) > FLAC

REVIEW by BP fallon:
Wednesday at 6.00 pm in the Albert Hall and Elvis and the Confederates are rehearsing with their special guest. Benmont Tench tells Van Morrison that he doesn’t know the old Sonny Boy Williamson song “Help Me,” so Van tells him to play the intro to Booker T and the MG’s “Green Onions” instead. It sounds great.
When Elvis introduces Van that evening, the place erupts even more. They do “Jackie Wilson Says” and it’s such a thrill to see Elvis and Van singing together, Van being pushed to his proper heights by these great players. And then it’s into “Help Me” with Benmont on the organ and Elvis on harmonica riffin’ off each other. Everyone’s grinning. Ooh, my soul.

REVIEW by Richard Cook:
A huge cheer was coughed up when EC called on an encore guest, a visibly underwhelmed Van Morrison. Van bumbled through three songs including a dismal “Jackie Wilson Said,” and ran off. Poor fellow — why bother him, anyway?

NOTES & TRIVIA:
Elvis covered “Full Force Gale” for “No Prima Donna”, the first tribute album for the songs of Van Morrison, released in 1994.
Elvis Costello’s “500 Albums You Need” (Vanity Fair, November 2000) features four albums by Van Morrison, including Astral Weeks (1968) and Moondance (1970).

More info about this show here: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Concert_1987-01-28_London