Sorry I didn't manage to post a playlist last week; a combination of germs, deadlines and various other professional/seasonal distractions meant that I ran out of time.
Nonesuch Records are releasing a live album inspired by the Coen Brothers film, Inside Llewyn Davis.
The record, entitled Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating The Music Of Inside Llewyn Davis, will feature contributions from Jack White, Conor Oberst, The Decemberists' Colin Meloy, Elvis Costello, Joan Baez, Gillian Welch, The Avett Brothers, Carey Mulligan and more.
A second track, " Married To My Hack", has been released from the forthcoming Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes project.
The album features lyrics that Dylan wrote while recording the original Basement Tapes in 1967 that have been put to music by Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops), Dawes' Taylor Goldsmith, Jim James, T Bone Burnett and Marcus Mumford.
A track, "Nothing To It", has been released from the forthcoming Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes project.
The album features lyrics that Dylan wrote while recording the original Basement Tapes in 1967 that have been put to music by Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops), Dawes' Taylor Goldsmith, Jim James, T Bone Burnett and Marcus Mumford.
The first song from these sessions, "Nothing To It" is accompanied by an animated video that overlays abstract cartoons and Dylan's original hand-written lyrics.
Johnny Depp features on a new album based on the 'lost' lyrics of Bob Dylan.
Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes also features Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons, Elvis Costello and Jim James of My Morning Jacket as well as Rhiannon Giddens of Carolina Chocolate Drops and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes on the T Bone Burnett produced record.
A 1964 album by Johnny Cash, Bitter Tears: Ballads Of The American Indian, has been re-recorded to mark its 50th anniversary.
The album, which was originally envisaged as a concept album to highlight the mistreatment of Native Americans, has been reinterpreted by artists including Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Emmylou Harris and Kris Kristofferson.
T Bone Burnett has unveiled details about his forthcoming Basement Tapes project.
Called Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes, the album will be released later this year by Electromagnetic Recordings/Island Records/Harvest Records, and will feature artists including Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops), Dawes' Taylor Goldsmith, Jim James and Marcus Mumford. The have created music for two-dozen recently discovered lyrics written by Bob Dylan in 1967 during the period he was working on The Basement Tapes.
I interviewed T Bone Burnett as part of a piece on Inside Llewyn Davis, the new Coen Brothers film, which ran in the issue of Uncut on sale in December. What was originally meant to be a brisk 10 minute chat about working with the Coens and the film's soundtrack evolved into a much longer conversation, the bulk of which, inevitably, I couldn't work into the feature. So I thought I'd post it here for anyone interested in reading T Bone's thoughts on the evolution of folk music, the music he was listening to when he was growing up, and of course his experiences working with the Coens. Other topics under discussion included the American Civil War, George Clooney and Bob Dylan...
Jack White, Patti Smith and Gillian Welch are among the artists playing a benefit concert in New York, produced by the Coen Brothers and T Bone Burnett.
The event - Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating The Music Of Inside Llewyn Davis - will take place at The Town Hall in New York City on Sunday, September 29, 2013.
It is inspired by Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen's upcoming film set in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene.
