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<center><h3> More songs from the basement</h3></center> | <center><h3> More songs from the basement</h3></center> | ||
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<center> Dan Cairns </center> | <center> Dan Cairns </center> | ||
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'''When T Bone Burnett was given a box of long-lost Dylan lyrics, he knew who to call in to write the music | |||
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Twelve months ago, the American producer T Bone Burnett was contacted by Bob Dylan's publisher. No huge surprise there; after all, he had known Dylan since 1975, when he'd toured with him as part of the Rolling Thunder Revue. It was what the publisher said to Burnett that was the shocker. | Twelve months ago, the American producer T Bone Burnett was contacted by Bob Dylan's publisher. No huge surprise there; after all, he had known Dylan since 1975, when he'd toured with him as part of the Rolling Thunder Revue. It was what the publisher said to Burnett that was the shocker. | ||
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"Look, we're not kids, writing down our favourite football team. We're actually people, and the imaginary version of these people is never quite what they are or what you think it's going to be. I didn't see Bob live unti1 1978, and he had Steve Douglas on sax, who played on all the Spector records, and Elvis's bass player, and Ian Wallace from King Crimson — this deeply 'unusual' combination of musicians. So me being in a room with Jim James and Marcus Mumford is nothing." | "Look, we're not kids, writing down our favourite football team. We're actually people, and the imaginary version of these people is never quite what they are or what you think it's going to be. I didn't see Bob live unti1 1978, and he had Steve Douglas on sax, who played on all the Spector records, and Elvis's bass player, and Ian Wallace from King Crimson — this deeply 'unusual' combination of musicians. So me being in a room with Jim James and Marcus Mumford is nothing." | ||
The results are intoxicating: James's "Instant Karma"-meets-Womack & Womack setting of "Nothing to It"; Giddens and Mumford's version of the title track, which Costello describes as "just heart-stopping"; Costello's own brutal, blistering take on "Married to My Hack"; Goldsmith and Mumford' | The results are intoxicating: James's "Instant Karma"-meets-Womack & Womack setting of "Nothing to It"; Giddens and Mumford's version of the title track, which Costello describes as "just heart-stopping"; Costello's own brutal, blistering take on "[[Married To My Hack|Married to My Hack]]"; Goldsmith and Mumford's spine-tinglingly beautiful arrangement of "When I Get My I Hands on You." | ||
But the album's greatest achievement is that it sets both lyrics and listener free. Immersion in the songs frees you from the cold, closed cloisters of Dylanology, and sensitises you afresh to the emotional and psychological richness of the great man's words. | But the album's greatest achievement is that it sets both lyrics and listener free. Immersion in the songs frees you from the cold, closed cloisters of Dylanology, and sensitises you afresh to the emotional and psychological richness of the great man's words. | ||
As gifts go, that's a hell of a present. Yes, it took a long time arriving. But it's here now. Listen to it. It's joyful. | As gifts go, that's a hell of a present. Yes, it took a long time arriving. But it's here now. Listen to it. It's joyful. | ||
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'''''Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes will be released on Electromagnetic / Island on Nov 10. | |||
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