Dylan and The Remaing Beatles To Record Tracks

Ringo Starr is set to join Sir Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan to record new tracks over the summer.

The ex-Beatles drummer is keen to join his former Fab Four bandmate and the folk music legend after hearing of their plans to collaborate. Ringo has been described as the “perfect middleman” for the two stars due to his long-time friendship and musical relationship with 66-year-old Paul, while he has also previously performed live with Bob.

A source told the 'Express': “The word is Ringo is likely to play drums on a couple of tracks once Paul and Bob have put some songs together. Ringo will be the perfect middleman between Bob and Sir Paul as he knows them both well.”

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Dylan Offers Free Download From New Album

Bobdylan.com today announce the free download of 'Beyond Here Lies Nothing' from the upcoming album "Together Through Life."

"Beyond Here" only hints at the variety of tone, mood and feeling on an album that critics are already buzzing about.

You can pre-order the album here.

New Dylan Album To Drop April 28

NEW YORK, Mar 16, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Columbia Records Monday announced that U.S. recording artist Bob Dylan's new studio album will be released next month.

"Together Through Life," produced by Jack Frost, was recorded late last year. Dylan's record label said it was prompted by the composition of a new song, "Life Is Hard," which was written for a forthcoming film by "La Vie En Rose" director Oliver Dahan.

Dylan's latest album will be his 46th release. It is slated to drop April 28.

Dylan Cuts Followup to Modern Times, Due in April

From RollingStone:

I'm listening to Billy Joe Shaver/And I'm reading James Joyce/Some people tell me I got the blood of the land in my voice," Bob Dylan sings in a leathery growl, capturing the essence of his forthcoming studio album — raw-country love songs, sly wordplay and the wounded state of the nation — in "I Feel a Change Coming On," one of the record's 10 new originals.

Set for late April, the as-yet-untitled album arrives a few months after Dylan's outtakes collection Tell Tale Signs, and it "came as a surprise," says a source close to Dylan's camp. Last year, filmmaker Olivier Dahan, who directed the 2007 Edith Piaf biopic, La Vie en Rose, approached Dylan about writing a song for his next feature. Dylan responded with "Life Is Hard," a bleak ballad with mandolin, pedal steel and him singing in a dark, clear voice, "The evening winds are still/I've lost the way and will." (The song appears in the film My Own Love Song, starring Renée Zellweger.)

Inspired, Dylan kept writing and recording songs with his road band and guests, with Los Lobos' David Hidalgo rumored on accordion. Dylan produced the album under his usual pseudonym, Jack Frost....read the rest

Biograph, Lay Lady Lay Lyrics

Lay, Lady, Lay Lyrics

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colors you have in your mind
I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Until the break of day, let me see you make him smile
His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
And you're the best thing that he's ever seen

Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Why wait any longer for the world to begin
You can have your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he's standing in front of you

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead
I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead

Dylan Plays Kingston

He may be one of the world's greatest folk singers, but Bob Dylan showed Kingston fans on Saturday night that he knows how to rock.

The 67-year-old wowed the 4,200 people who packed into the K-Rock Centre with a blues-rock sounding concert that featured classic hits such as Like A Rolling Stone, Highway 61 Revisited, Just Like A Woman and Lay, Lady, Lay.

As Dylan kicked off the show (there was no opening act) with Maggie's Farm, the fans on the floor stood on their feet. After that, their butts didn't touch the seats for most of the night.

"Wild horses couldn't keep me away from this concert, to quote another famous musician," said an emotional Matthew Back near the end of the show, referring to a famous Rolling Stones song. The 63-year-old has been a Dylan fan since he first saw the star when he was 17. "I swear to God I've almost been crying for the last hour."

Mark Batson, 44, brought his eight-year-old daughter, Evelyn, to the concert because he wanted her to see the legend in person.

"It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Evelyn. She'll probably never have a chance to see him again," Batson said, noting that Dylan, 67, may never perform in Kingston again.

Many fans used the term "icon" when talking about Dylan, and it's not an exaggeration to say he is as influential as Elvis Presley or The Beatles.

The singer's songs, such as The Times They Are A-Changin' and Blowin' In The Wind, were anthems of the civil-rights movement in the 1960s. He's a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and has won numerous Grammy Awards and an Academy Award for the song Things Have Changed (from the film The Wonder Boys) that was the third song performed during Saturday's concert.

This year, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture." Some literary experts are lobbying for Dylan to win a Nobel Prize for literature because they feel his song writing is so powerful... read the rest

Play list

Here are the songs played at the K-Rock Centre on Saturday night.

1. Maggie's Farm

2. Lay, Lady, Lay

3. Things Have Changed

4. Spirit On The Water

5. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum

6. Just Like A Woman

7. The Levee's Gonna Break

8. Make You Feel My Love

9. Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

10. Ballad of Hollis Brown

11. Honest With Me

12. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll

13. Highway 61 Revisited

14. Nettie Moore

15. Thunder On The Mountain

16. Like A Rolling Stone

17. All Along The Watchtower

Tell Tale Streaming

September 30, 2008 - Widely regarded as America's greatest living songwriter, Bob Dylan has written and recorded some of the most influential and acclaimed music of the past century. With countless studio albums, compilations and live discs to his name in his nearly 50-year career, Dylan continues to produce new music that's as vital as his earliest recordings, and still performs more than 100 concerts every year in what's been called the "never-ending tour."

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