You may not know the names Pino Palladino and Blake Mills, but you certainly know their work. Palladino’s bass playing can be heard on albums by artists like Erykah Badu, D’Angelo, and The Who, while Mills has produced albums by Bob Dylan, Fiona Apple, and John Legend.Notes with Atta...
Dylan‘s finest ballad is not a love song. “Just Like a Woman” is a complex portrait of adoration and disappointment, written as vengeance but sung as regret. Dylan never revealed a specific inspiration for the woman indicted. (Dylanologists often cite Andy Warhol’s star-crossed protégée...
The outlet notes that artists like Calvin Harris and The Killers have sold catalog assets to private equity firms in recent weeks. However, Dylan’s deal with Universal is something to keep an eye on given that it’s being done by a traditional publisher rather than an investment fund...
For generations to come, other artists will be turning to Bob Dylan’s catalog for inspiration. From the Sixties protest anthems that made him a star through to his noirish Nineties masterpieces and beyond, no other contemporary songwriter has produced such a vast and profound body of work: ...
sounds of jazz fusion. But just as many artists embraced pop music, like George Benson andDonald Byrd. And then there was the best–selling piano recording of all–time, a solo concert byKeith Jarrett. In short, there was something for just about everyone when it comes to jazz in the ...
Some artists take this power to heart, influenced by real people and situations as they craft their lyrics. The '90s, for example, saw an outpouring of politically-inspired songs by the likes of Sinéad O’Connor, Dave Matthews Band, Sublime, and Elton John. So many other events, from Hur...
and for a few years, he became productive once again. Even though his first efforts didn’t chart, as always, they were listened to and interesting to other artists. Elvis Presley’s cover version of “Burning Love,” inspired by Alexander’s original, became his last Top 10 hit in 1972...
This charming 40s ballad, written by Buddy Kaye and most famously recorded by Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan, borrows from the third movement of Rachmaninov’s epic piano concerto. Kaye extracted the famous theme nearly note-for-note to use as the vocal line of ‘Full Moon and Empty Arms’ –...
“We get lots of babds to perform live in the studio,”says producer Chris Cowey“That just doesn’t happen on other shows” Chris starts the preparations for the programme over a week before it goes out.His first job is to decide which bands to have on the show.When the chart of th...
Written and first recorded by Bob Dylan (1967). Hit version by Robert Palmer with UB40 (UK #6/CAN #58/IRE #6/AUS #4/NZ #1/SUI #5/NETH #4 1990). From the wiki: “‘I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight’ was written by Bob Dylan in 1967, and first released on the alb umJohn Wesley...