Bob Dylan

The Coen Brothers get folkie. Their latest film ‘Inside Llewyn Davies’ is based around the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 60’s.

Today is Bob Dylan’s 70th Birthday. So without getting too over-sentimental and expansive about the whole thing I’ve put together a heap of tracks that I’ve enjoyed as well a few rare or less heard tracks which will playout from today.

This is turning into a weird week. Caught this today…The Ting Tings have re-mixed Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues. Appears to be a Record Day feature run by Sony to encourage all you folks out there that fancy a go at mixing…not sure about the idea personally but they pull it off ok (if you like the idea of killing a good song)…watch the video below:

This is the first of our Frukie Round-ups where we take a brief look at whats out there. I’m hoping for this to be a regular and I intend to cover a broad range from Indie folk to progressive Trad…we get so many albums sent for review that we can’t possibly cover all of them but this may help re-address that balance a little.

Ben Rogers arrives in the UK this month to commence his UK and European tour to promote his debut EP The Bums of Easy Street Part 1. A Dylanesque styled troubadour with a great stage presence.

The Bootleg Series Volume 9 – The Witmark Demos 1962-1964 and The Original Mono Recordings are two sets that have been long sought-after by Bob Dylan collectors and fans worldwide. Finally, The Witmark Demos are seeing their commercial release nearly five decades after they were initially recorded, and re-release of the artist’s first eight long-playing albums are returning to the marketplace for the first time ever as the The Original …

For those of you that know and love the music of The Low Anthem you will know the line-up as frontman Ben Knox Miller, multi-instrumentalist Jeff Prystowsky and the classically trained composer Jocie Adams. So who do those extra pair of feet in the photo above belong to and where is it?

The press have managed to shape a large hook of Charlotte Gainsbourg’s past to hang her latest album IRM from. So I’m not going to over indulge in this, only to say, it had people clambouring for video clips of her infamous musical debut with her father, Serge Gainsbourg, as well as clips from her appearance in Antichrist