From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V12 #15 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Monday, January 22 2007 Volume 12 : Number 015 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Countryesque [Chandla911@aol.com] RE: [AVALON] Dylanesque review from easier.com [ Subject: RE: [AVALON] Dylanesque review from easier.com Thanks Bahi, Is this the "real" album cover? If so, first time Ive seen it. Rob - -----Original Message----- From: owner-avalon@smoe.org [mailto:owner-avalon@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Bahi Para Sent: 20 January 2007 15:48 To: avalon@smoe.org Subject: [AVALON] Dylanesque review from easier.com Another review, generally well written and appreciative. I'm beginning to recognise Ferry quotes that some of these articles have in common. Did they come from a press pack, perhaps? > "I get the feeling people expect something fairly > refined from me," concludes Ferry, "My voice has > gotten deeper and the album's got an element of > roughness to it and, I hope, a kind of haunting > quality. The singer in me is overjoyed to be singing > these songs." > > Ferry has never met Bob Dylan. > "What would I say if I did meet him? 'I hope you > don't mind'." B ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:23:19 EST From: Chandla911@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Enoesque This in the latest Uncut: _http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/bryan_ferry/news/9211_ (http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/bryan_ferry/news/9211) Eno features on If Not For You and one track was started 8 years ago. So much for being "recorded in just one week"! Still, it's still fast by Ferry's standards... Bryan Ferry is to release bDylanesqueb, 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 bA Hard Rainbs A-Gonna Fallb 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." bDylanesqueb 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 bThe Times They Are A-Changinb is no longer just that. Ferry tells us "The way I do it doesn't mean it isn't a protest songb& 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,' bAll I Really Want To Dob and bPositively 4th Street.b Guest musicians also appear on the covers album b Brian Eno provides "sonic enhancements" on bIf Not For Youb and The Dirty Threebs Warren Ellis brings a string arrangement to bPositively 4th Street.b Ferry also tackles bKnocking On Heaven's Doorb admitting that b[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..." bDylanesqueb is released on Virgin Records on March 5. Best wishes Richard Mills ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:46:36 -0000 From: "Martin Stockman" Subject: [AVALON] RE: Countryesque ;-) .. Viva Laura. Have now heard Dylanesque and I think Reeceys definition of country is a long way from ours! If Elviss backing band is country, (thats Presley,) then this is country _____ From: Chandla911@aol.com [mailto:Chandla911@aol.com] Sent: 21 January 2007 10:30 To: martinstockman@btinternet.com; avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: Countryesque Cannot agree more with Martin about Laura Cantrell than I do. She is a real jewel, a travelling (though based in NY) historian who preserves some of the most beautiful songs ever written by performing them live and obviously on CD from time to time... Also, I too found that Almost Blue was the epiphany. And have since been converted to Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Laura Cantrell, Gram Parsons, George Jones, Emmylou etc etc Hey bro, Martin ;-) Best wishes Richard Mills - -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.16.12/631 - Release Date: 1/16/2007 - -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.16.12/631 - Release Date: 1/16/2007 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V12 #15 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest