Red on Blonde
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Red on Blonde is a 1996 album of Bob Dylan
covers by contemporary folk/bluegrass music
ian Tim O'Brien
. The title is a reference to Dylan's 1966 album, Blonde on Blonde
and Tim's alter-ego during his Hot Rize
days- Red Knuckles, leader of the Western Swing outfit, Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers.
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
covers by contemporary folk/bluegrass music
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...
ian Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien (musician)
Tim O'Brien is an American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to singing, he plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki and mandocello...
. The title is a reference to Dylan's 1966 album, Blonde on Blonde
Blonde on Blonde
Blonde on Blonde is American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's seventh studio album, released in May or June 1966 on Columbia Records and produced by Bob Johnston. Recording sessions commenced in New York in October 1965, with a plethora of backing musicians, including members of Dylan's live backing...
and Tim's alter-ego during his Hot Rize
Hot Rize
Hot Rize is a bluegrass band that rose to prominence in the early 1980s. Established in 1978, the founding members were Mike Scap , Tim O'Brien on mandolin and fiddle, Pete Wernick on banjo and Charles Sawtelle on bass....
days- Red Knuckles, leader of the Western Swing outfit, Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers.
Track listing
All songs written by Bob Dylan- "Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)" - 3:59
- "Tombstone BluesTombstone Blues"Tombstone Blues" is the second track off Bob Dylan's album Highway 61 Revisited. Musically it is a straightforward blues song, however the lyrics are typical of Dylan's free-associate surreal style of the period, with such lines as "the sun's not yellow, it's chicken".It was performed by Marcus...
" - 3:41 - "Farewell, Angelina" - 4:17
- "The Wicked MessengerThe Wicked MessengerThe Wicked Messenger is a song written and originally performed by Bob Dylan for his album John Wesley Harding. The song was recorded in Columbia's Studio A, Nashville, on November 19, 1967.- Structure and instrumentation :...
" - 2:25 - "Father of Night" - 2:37
- "Subterranean Homesick BluesSubterranean Homesick Blues"Subterranean Homesick Blues" is a song by Bob Dylan, originally released in 1965 as a single on Columbia Records, catalogue 43242. It appeared 19 days later as the lead track to the album Bringing It All Back Home. It was Dylan's first Top 40 hit, peaking at #39 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also...
" - 2:41 - "Everything Is BrokenEverything Is Broken"Everything is Broken" is a song written and recorded by American musician Bob Dylan, and released on his 1989 album, Oh Mercy. The song's lyrics describe Dylan's detachment from his world at the time of its writing. The track found on Oh Mercy is a re-working of a take recorded earlier...
" - 2:49 - "Man Gave Names to All the Animals" - 4:24
- "Masters of WarMasters of War"Masters of War" is a song by Bob Dylan, written over the winter of 1962-63 and released on the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in the spring of 1963. The song's melody was adapted from the traditional "Nottamun Town"...
" - 3:22 - "Oxford TownOxford Town"Oxford Town" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in 1962. It was recorded in Columbia's Studio A on 6 December 1962 for his second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan....
" - 1:52 - "Maggie's FarmMaggie's Farm"Maggie's Farm" is a song written by Bob Dylan, recorded on January 15, 1965, and released on the album Bringing It All Back Home on March 22 of that year...
" - 3:20 - "Forever YoungForever Young (Bob Dylan song)"Forever Young" is a song by Bob Dylan. The song first appeared on Dylan's 1974 album Planet Waves.- Analysis :In the notes for the 2007 album titled DYLAN, Bill Flanagan had the following to say about "Forever Young":...
" - 2:29 - "Lay Down Your Weary TuneLay Down Your Weary Tune"Lay Down Your Weary Tune" is song written by Bob Dylan in 1963. It was originally recorded for his album The Times They Are a-Changin, but it was ultimately left off of that record. Dylan's studio recording of the song was eventually released on his 1985 box set Biograph...
" - 3:28
Musicians
- Tim O'Brien - Bouzouki, Fiddle, Mandolin, Vocals
- Steve Cohn - Accordion
- Charlie Cushman Banjo
- Jerry DouglasJerry DouglasJerry Douglas may refer to:*Jerry Douglas , actor, who was on The Young and the Restless for 25 years*Jerry Douglas, country/bluegrass musician*Jerry Douglas , director and writer of adult films such as, Score...
- Guitar, Hawaiian Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Guitar (Resonator) - Mark Graham - Harmonica
- Celeste Krenz - Vocals
- Kathy MatteaKathy MatteaKathleen Alice "Kathy" Mattea is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a recording artist, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot...
- Vocals - Scott Nygaard - Guitar
- Mollie O'Brien - Vocals
- Mark Schatz - Banjo, Bass, Vocals
- Bob Tyler - Vocals
- Glen Zankey - Vocals
Production
- Tim O'Brien - Producer
- Randy Best - Engineer
- Kevin Clock - Mixing
- David Glasser Mastering
Other
- Willie Matthews & Charles Sawtelle- Liner Notes
- Senor McGuire - Photography
- Sue Meyer - Design