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Chimes Of Freedom: Songs Of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International' is set for a January 30, 2012 release. All the proceeds from the compilation will be donated to Amnesty International.

The compilation will feature covers of the folk legend's material from a host of artists, including Sting, The Dave Matthews Band, Patti Smith and My Morning Jacket.

Adele will contribute a session version of her cover of Dylan's 'Make You Feel My Love', which also featured on her debut album '19', while Ke$ha will offer a new rendition of 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright' and Miley Cyrus will cover ‘You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go’.

Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, My Chemical Romance, Queens Of The Stone Age and actress Evan Rachel Wood will also feature on the collection, which comprises 80 different artists.

The four disc collection has been executive produced by Jeff Ayeroff and Julie Yannatta and 70 of the tracks were recorded especially for the charity release.

Amnesty International was founded in 1962, the same year that Bob Dylan released his debut album.

The tracklisting for ‘Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International’ is:

CD1
Raphael Saadiq 'Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat'
Patti Smith Drifter's 'Escape'
Rise Against 'Ballad of Hollis Brown'
Tom Morello The Nightwatchman 'Blind Willie McTell'
Pete Townshend 'Corrina, Corrina'
Bettye LaVette 'Most of the Time'
Charlie Winston 'This Wheel's On Fire'
Diana Krall 'Simple Twist of Fate'
Brett Dennen 'You Ain't Goin' Nowhere'
Mariachi El Bronx 'Love Sick'
Ziggy Marley 'Blowin' in the Wind'
The Gaslight Anthem 'Changing of the Guards'
Silversun Pickups 'Not Dark Yet'
My Morning Jacket 'You're A Big Girl Now'
The Airborne Toxic Event 'Boots of Spanish Leather'
Sting 'Girl from the North Country'
Mark Knopfler 'Restless Farewell'

CD2
Queens Of The Stone Age 'Outlaw Blues'
Lenny Kravitz 'Rainy Day Woman # 12 & 35'
Steve Earle & Lucia Micarelli 'One More Cup of Coffee' (Valley Below)
Blake Mills 'Heart Of Mine'
Miley Cyrus 'You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go'
Billy Bragg 'Lay Down Your Weary Tune'
Elvis Costello 'License to Kill'
Angelique Kidjo 'Lay, Lady, Lay'
Natasha Bedingfield 'Ring Them Bells'
Jackson Browne 'Love Minus Zero/No Limit'
Joan Baez 'Seven Curses' (Live)
The Belle Brigade 'No Time To Think'
Sugarland 'Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You' (Live)
Jack's Mannequin 'Mr. Tambourine Man'
Oren Lavie '4th Time Around'
Sussan Deyhim 'All I Really Want To Do'
Adele 'Make You Feel My Love' (Recorded Live at WXPN)

CD3
K'NAAN 'With God On Our Side'
Ximena Sariñana 'I Want You'
Neil Finn with Pajama Club 'She Belongs to Me'
Bryan Ferry 'Bob Dylan's Dream'
Zee Avi 'Tomorrow Is A Long Time'
Carly Simon 'Just Like a Woman'
Flogging Molly 'The Times They Are A-Changin'
Fistful Of Mercy 'Buckets Of Rain'
Joe Perry 'Man Of Peace'
Bad Religion 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue'
My Chemical Romance 'Desolation Row' (Live)
RedOne featuring Nabil Khayat 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door'
Paul Rodgers & Nils Lofgren 'Abandoned Love'
Darren Criss featuring Chuck Criss and Freelance Whales 'New Morning'
Cage the Elephant 'The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll'
Band of Skulls 'It Ain't Me, Babe'
Sinéad O'Connor 'Property of Jesus'
Ed Roland and The Sweet Tea Project 'Shelter From The Storm'
Ke$ha 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right'
Kronos Quartet 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right'

CD4
Maroon 5 'I Shall Be Released'
Carolina Chocolate Drops 'Political World'
Seal & Jeff Beck 'Like A Rolling Stone'
Taj Mahal 'Bob Dylan's 115th Dream'
Dierks Bentley 'Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)' (Live)
Mick Hucknall 'One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)'
Thea Gilmore 'I'll Remember You'
State Radio 'John Brown'
Dave Matthews Band 'All Along the Watchtower' (Live)
Michael Franti 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'
We Are Augustines 'Mama, You Been On My Mind'
Lucinda Williams 'Tryin' To Get To Heaven'
Kris Kristofferson 'Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)'
Eric Burdon 'Gotta Serve Somebody'
Evan Rachel Wood 'I'd Have You Anytime'
Marianne Faithfull 'Baby Let Me Follow You Down' (Live)
Pete Seeger 'Forever Young'
Bob Dylan 'Chimes Of Freedom'
'raging and weeping are left on the early road
now each in his holy hill
the glittering and hurting days are alomst done
then let us compare mythologies
i have learned my elaborate lie
of soaring crosses and poisened thorns'
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Ouch. Even reading this is painful! I thought Amnesty International was founded to stop human suffering!

As an aside, I've liked Raphael Saddiq's album 'Stone Rollin'' this year.
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sweet lord please no!!!

Maroon 5 'I Shall Be Released'

I remember on Family Guy when Meg gets a boyfriend and he buys here a Maroon 5 cd. She says how did you know I like them? He replies "you said you had terrible taste in music"....

maybe they need to cut down the 4 cds worth of **** to just one of okish ****?
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I bet that Ke$ha track is cracking!
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isnt miley cyrus justin beber or another one of those real names?
'raging and weeping are left on the early road
now each in his holy hill
the glittering and hurting days are alomst done
then let us compare mythologies
i have learned my elaborate lie
of soaring crosses and poisened thorns'
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for a genuinely superb Dylan covers album, seek out the I'm Not There soundtrack...
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angelsighs wrote:for a genuinely superb Dylan covers album, seek out the I'm Not There soundtrack...
or dylan's 80's period 8)
'raging and weeping are left on the early road
now each in his holy hill
the glittering and hurting days are alomst done
then let us compare mythologies
i have learned my elaborate lie
of soaring crosses and poisened thorns'
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Ouch. Bring out the usual suspects. All it's missing is Phil Collins and Dire Straits and it would be almost as if the last 2 decades had never happened. Bob's music deserves much better than this.
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mh wrote:Ouch. Bring out the usual suspects. All it's missing is Phil Collins and Dire Straits and it would be almost as if the last 2 decades had never happened. Bob's music deserves much better than this.
marky sweatband is already in there, but yes goblinboy is sorely missed.. would have gone so well together with mirey cylon and baloon5.

but where the fuck are elton john and billy joel?!
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scratch wrote:
mh wrote:Ouch. Bring out the usual suspects. All it's missing is Phil Collins and Dire Straits and it would be almost as if the last 2 decades had never happened. Bob's music deserves much better than this.
marky sweatband is already in there, but yes goblinboy is sorely missed.. would have gone so well together with mirey cylon and baloon5.

but where the fuck are elton john and billy joel?!
dylan wanted pavarotti on the hank williams album but had to be 'reminded' that he's not a song writer
'raging and weeping are left on the early road
now each in his holy hill
the glittering and hurting days are alomst done
then let us compare mythologies
i have learned my elaborate lie
of soaring crosses and poisened thorns'
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What a load of music snobbery.

Sad...It's a charity album, for a pretty amazing cause... gimme a break. :roll:

Another way of looking at it is - perhaps this again shows just how outstanding a songwriter Dylan is when such a varied cross-section of musicians (and that) are able to go somewhere with one of his songs. Over the decades the literally thousands of artists who've covered him are diverse to say the least - sure, much of this won't be for me but I bet there's some ace stuff as well - Patti Smith, Bettye Lavette, Steve Earle, Band of Skulls, Ke$ha :wink: and the Kronos Quartet... as well as the fucking Queens of the Stone Age!

The reaction to this album also strikes me as something that Dylan would probably enjoy, seeing the Dylanophiles quivering in outrage. Again.

Lastly, I believe this album has the edge on the I'm Not There soundtrack (which for me is only really essential for the inclusion of the beautiful title track by the man himself):

Highly recommended - Solomon Burke doing 'Maggie's Farm' will be familiar out there to those who know me best. :wink:
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BZA, Im with you on getting the dylan fans riled up. I think Dylan gets a bit of a kick out it too. Plus, and I'm always exited to hear what QOTSA record, they are a great band! Same goes for Patti Smith and Bettye Lavette. But, by the same token I'd go mental If someone as talentless and vacuous as Mick Hucknall covered any of SPZ tunes. As I said earlier in the thread, cut it down to a single, or at most a double album of really diverse quality artists and it would make for a great album, and as a result would probably make more for the charity.
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BzaInSpace wrote:What a load of music snobbery.

Sad...It's a charity album, for a pretty amazing cause... gimme a break. :roll:

Another way of looking at it is - perhaps this again shows just how outstanding a songwriter Dylan is when such a varied cross-section of musicians (and that) are able to go somewhere with one of his songs. Over the decades the literally thousands of artists who've covered him are diverse to say the least - sure, much of this won't be for me but I bet there's some ace stuff as well - Patti Smith, Bettye Lavette, Steve Earle, Band of Skulls, Ke$ha :wink: and the Kronos Quartet... as well as the fucking Queens of the Stone Age!

The reaction to this album also strikes me as something that Dylan would probably enjoy, seeing the Dylanophiles quivering in outrage. Again.

Lastly, I believe this album has the edge on the I'm Not There soundtrack (which for me is only really essential for the inclusion of the beautiful title track by the man himself):

Highly recommended - Solomon Burke doing 'Maggie's Farm' will be familiar out there to those who know me best. :wink:
obviously :roll: :wink: i didn't like the 'i'm not there' ost. as a general rule i'm not a fan of covers. it's rare that they supersede the original
'raging and weeping are left on the early road
now each in his holy hill
the glittering and hurting days are alomst done
then let us compare mythologies
i have learned my elaborate lie
of soaring crosses and poisened thorns'
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'raging and weeping are left on the early road
now each in his holy hill
the glittering and hurting days are alomst done
then let us compare mythologies
i have learned my elaborate lie
of soaring crosses and poisened thorns'
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i'm sure there will be a few gems in there, but can't see it measuring up to I'm Not There. just looking at the tracklist a lot of it is pure MOR artists (not a judgement, just a fact)

although I do enjoy a fair amount of Dylan covers, I've never understood the (very common) viewpoint that other people do his songs better. I find his voice and presence unique and mesmerising a lot of the time. but a lot of people just can't get on with his voice. weird.
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looking forward to paul rodgers & nils lofgrin


and, for different reasons, my chemical romance doing desolation row (the most wtf in a litany of wtf moments reading that tracklist)


not looking forward to: mick hucknell or pete seeger
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BzaInSpace wrote:
Lastly, I believe this album has the edge on the I'm Not There soundtrack (which for me is only really essential for the inclusion of the beautiful title track by the man himself):

p much - tho i really love the kid actor's version of The Ship Comes In
& like what SY did w/the title track, tho obv the title track is perfection itself..
& obv the calexico/jim james Goin to Alcapulco is fucking righteous
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angelsighs wrote:for a genuinely superb Dylan covers album, seek out the I'm Not There soundtrack...
Even that one is a real mixed bag. There are some indie MOR people on the tracklist -- the versions of Dark Eyes and When The Ship Comes In (I hate that kid, he's so precious) are particularly bad on I'm Not There, which was probably unavoidable since the movie was so awful.

I am as appalled as you all about some of the obvious low points of this comp, but I bet some of it will be OK. Some of this is about young flashes in the pan trying to gain a bit of cred by covering Dylan for human rights, man! If they'd been more selective and cut it down to 2 discs, I bet it would be almost as good as I'm Not There, which did have some real highlights.
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the film was terrific!

& only young people, who are precious, should be allowed to sing When the Ship Comes In!
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