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Tag Archives: Instrumental Dylan
Strings For Pleasure, Play The Best Of Bob Dylan, 1974
Take one look at that cover and you know you’re in for thirty odd minutes of the putridest rottenest easy listening bilge you’ve heard this side of Zamfir’s King Of The Panflutes. It’s like a Dylan-program button on one of … Continue reading
The Mike Batt Orchestra, Portrait Of Bob Dylan, 1971
The instrumental orchestral Dylan cover album – it’s a complete genre on its own. The Mike Batt take on Dylan is most similar to The Sound Symposium or The Golden Gate Strings – orchestral rock. Batt is a British singer/songwriter … Continue reading
Rob van Dyke Trio, Rob van Dyke Plays Bob Dylan, 1970
At last, we’ve reached the seventies. I’ve rarely commented on album sleeves but take a good gawk at our Rob – the brooding eyes, the manicured facial hair, the blow wave and part, the sideburns. Nice. In 1970, Rob was … Continue reading
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The Sound Symposium, Bob Dylan Interpreted, 1969
These cruddy Dylan orchestral cover albums just never end. Here’s the last one of the sixties, and strangely, it seems to take a little bit of all of the others and mix them in the blender. This shoves rock, piano … Continue reading
Fontana Concert Orchestra, Portrait Of Bob Dylan, 1968
This is the fourth orchestral/symphonic/classical Dylan covers album in only three years. A quick recap then: The Golden Gate Strings (1965) mixed rock and orchestral elements together resulting in an interesting sound but the whole thing was way too kitschy … Continue reading
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Glen Campbell, Mr. Twelve String Guitar, 1966
Glen Campbell is a name I remember from my parents’ record collection. Therefore the idea of a Glen Campbell collection of Dylan covers is automatically fighting an uphill battle to gain any kind of credibility in my mind. Furthermore, this … Continue reading
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Tagged 12 string guitar, 1966, Dylan, Dylan Cover Albums, Glen Campbell, Instrumental Dylan, Music, review
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The Metropolitan Pops Orchestra, Plays Instrumental Versions of Bob Dylan Favorites, 1966
So, if 1965 was the year of the folk rock boom, 1966 was the year of instrumental Dylan cover albums, with no less than four being released that year. The Metropolitan Pops Orchestra produce by far the poppiest collection of … Continue reading
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The Gene Norman Group, Dylan Jazz, 1966
I was quite excited when I discovered this album. Arriving in 1966, hot on the heels of free jazz and such avant-garde luminaries as Coltrane, Dolphy, Ayler and Sanders I thought it might really mess with the Dylan catalogue in … Continue reading
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Gotham String Quartet, The Immortal Songs of Bob Dylan, 1966
I read somewhere that this was one of the strangest Dylan cover albums you’d ever hear, and so I braced myself for weirdness. Instead this delivered what I thought the Golden Gates Strings were all about—Dylan done as classical music. … Continue reading
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Duane Eddy, Duane Does Dylan, 1965
It’s going to be hard to find a few discrete words to say about each of these tracks because they’re all pretty much of a muchness. The cover to the side is the one I have – the UK version … Continue reading
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Tagged 1965, bob dylan, Duane Does Dylan, Duane Eddy, Dylan Cover Albums, Instrumental Dylan, Music, review
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Golden Gate Strings, The Bob Dylan Songbook, 1965
Let’s start with a quotation from the back sleeve: “At first, it may seem startling to hear a full orchestra play the songs of Bob Dylan, whose own singing tends toward the rough, blisteringly authentic style of the honest folk … Continue reading
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