Sufjan Stevens, Cat Power, And Jim James & Calexico Cover Dylan
You can stop watching the I'm Not There trailer now and get listening to some of the soundtrack for Todd Haynes' mucho anticipated, shape-shifting Dylan flick. Check out the album art below -- A Bobby double looming large. Sufjan, Chan, and Jim James & Calexico streams after the jump.
Peep the aforementioned tracks by Sufjan Stevens, Cat Power, Jim James & Calexico here. Chan's in fine form for "Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again," which bodes well for Jukebox. Sufjan's final flourish on "Ring Them Bells"? Very Sufjan and very awesome. You can provide your own syllables for the My Morning Jacket/Calexico mind-meld. Speaking of collaborations, a bunch of the tracks -- including tunes by Eddie Vedder, Stephen Malkmus, and Karen O -- are fleshed-out by the so-called "Million Dollar Bashers," a band put together for the flick that includes Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Tom Verlaine, Nels Cline, Smokey Hormel, John Medeski and Dylan band bassist Tony Garnier. Smokin'.
Yup, we're throwing a lot your way at once, but these Dylan fans are also throwing a party: You can catch some of the interpretations live 11/7 at the Beacon Theater (it benefits those fine pedagogical folks at our beloved 826). The aforementioned J. James & Calexico and Cat Power will be there along with Yo La Tengo (with Buckwheat Zydeco), My Morning Jacket in full, Mark Lanegan, Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet, Mason Jennings, Joe Henry, John Doe, Michelle Shocked & Jimmy LeFave, The Roots, Gomez's Ian Ball & Olly Peacock, Lee Ranaldo & the Million Dollar Bashers, J Mascis, etc. Get the official skinny here.
The I'm Not There Soundtrack is out 10/30 on Columbia. The film itself starts projecting 11/21.
Posted at 4:32 PM in Album Art
Tags: Bob Dylan | Calexico | Cat Power | Jim James | My Morning Jacket | Sufjan Stevens
Bonnie Prince Billy put out two great Dylan covers as B sides earlier this year, one of which is covered here by Jim James and Calexico (Going to Acapulco), and the other by Willie Nelson and...Calexico (Senor). Damn. They couldn't have put a little Will Oldham on there. An artist who I'd argue is one of the closest comparisons to Dylan in folk today.
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Not to be dicks, but just to stick up for ourselves a bit, we've had the tracklist for weeks now.
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2007/09/im-not-there-final-tracklist-lets-try.html
We also have already heard the 2-disc set and reviewed it.
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2007/10/im-not-there-soundtrack-preview.html
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@ ThePlaylist
Aren't you special! Yes, the soundtrack leaked a long time ago. Everyone has it. But kudos on promoting your blog again!
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Hello The Playlist -- Oops, yeah, our minds are addled after last night's Dan Deacon show. We posted the tracklist, via you, in August. All things fixed/updated above.
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The Sufjan track is the shit. Yes?
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Brandon, what you posted in August was actually just what everyone else posted which was the list of performers going to be on the soundtrack (not the disc's tracklist).
what you just posted and then removed was the final tracklist for the disc, which is relatively new, but we had it almost a month ago.
Just sayin', cheers.
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Wow. The Playlist are dicks.
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omg my bloggg pwns yrs.
ew. get over yourself.
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Not to be a dick, but I invented music and the fact that you are blogging about it means you owe me royalties. Please send a check for $1.09 to..
selfimportantblogger@theplayistarecompletetwats.com
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Ha.
I've felt a Sufjan-shaped hole in my life lately and I am super jazzed to see he covered Dylan. I mean, everyone has to cover Dylan at some point. And Sufjan covers always are Sufjanized and lovely.
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why the hell is "the playlist" even reading this blog. don't they have more self-important things to get to??
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