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Product Summary
Format: CD
Manufacturer: Amnesty International
Buy.com Sku: 227595846
UPC: 817974010016
UPC 14: 00817974010016
Release Date: 1/24/2012
Buy.com Sales Rank: 8560
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
Sample
1. One Too Many Mornings - Johnny Cash (previously unreleased, featuring The Avett Brothers) ~ Various Artists
2. Leopard-Skin Pill Box Hat - Raphael Saadiq (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
3. Drifters Escape - Patti Smith (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
4. Ballad of Hollis Brown - Rise Against (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
5. Blind Willie McTell - Tom Morello (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
6. Corrina, Corrina - Pete Townshend (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
7. Most of the Time - Bettye LaVette (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
8. This Wheel's on Fire - Charlie Winston (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
9. Simple Twist of Fate - Diana Krall (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
10. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - Brett Dennen (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
11. Love Sick - Mariachi El Bronx (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
12. Blowin' in the Wind - Ziggy Marley (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
13. Changing of the Guards - The Gaslight Anthem (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
14. Not Dark Yet - Silversun Pickups (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
15. You're a Big Girl Now - My Morning Jacket (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
16. Boots of Spanish Leather - The Airborne Toxic Event (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
17. Girl from the North Country - Sting (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
18. Restless Farewell - Mark Knopfler (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
Disc 2
Song Title
Sample
1. Outlaw Blues - Queens of the Stone Age (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
2. Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35 - Lenny Kravitz (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
3. One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) - Steve Earle/Lucia Micarelli (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
4. Heart of Mine - Blake Mills (previously unreleased, featuring Danielle Haim) ~ Various Artists
5. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go - Miley Cyrus (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
6. Lay Down Your Weary Tune - Billy Bragg (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
7. License to Kill - Elvis Costello (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
8. Lay, Lady, Lay - Ang?lique Kidjo (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
9. Ring Them Bells - Natasha Bedingfield (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
10. Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Jackson Browne (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
11. Seven Curses - Joan Baez ~ Various Artists
12. No Time to Think - The Belle Brigade (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
13. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You - Sugarland (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
14. Mr. Tambourine Man - Jack's Mannequin (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
15. 4th Time Around - Oren Lavie (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
16. All I Really Want to Do - Sussan Deyhim (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
17. Make You Feel My Love [Recorded Live at WXPN] - Adele (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
Disc 3
Song Title
Sample
1. With God on Our Side - K'NAAN (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
2. I Want You - Ximena Sari¤ana (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
3. She Belongs to Me - Neil Finn (previously unreleased, featuring Pajama Club) ~ Various Artists
4. Bob Dylan's Dream - Bryan Ferry (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
5. Tomorrow Is a Long Time - Zee Avi (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
6. Just Like a Woman - Carly Simon (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
7. Times They Are A-Changin', The - Flogging Molly (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
8. Buckets of Rain - Fistful of Mercy (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
9. Man of Peace - Joe Perry (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
10. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Bad Religion (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
11. Desolation Row - My Chemical Romance (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
12. Knockin' on Heaven's Door - RedOne (previously unreleased, featuring Nabil Khayat) ~ Various Artists
13. Abandoned Love - Nils Lofgren/Paul Rodgers (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
14. New Morning - Darren Criss (previously unreleased, featuring Freelance Whales/Chuck Criss) ~ Various Artists
15. Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, The - Cage the Elephant (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
16. It Ain't Me, Babe - Band of Skulls (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
17. Property of Jesus - Sin?ad O'Connor (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
18. Shelter from the Storm - Ed Roland/The Sweet Tea Project (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
19. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Ke$ha (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
20. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Kronos Quartet (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
Disc 4
Song Title
Sample
1. I Shall Be Released - Maroon 5 (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
2. Political World - The Carolina Chocolate Drops (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
3. Like a Rolling Stone - Jeff Beck/Seal (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
4. Bob Dylan's 115th Dream - The Phamtom Blues Band/Taj Mahal (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
5. Se¤or (Tales of Yankee Power) - Dierks Bentley (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
6. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) - Mick Hucknall (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
7. I'll Remember You - Thea Gilmore (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
8. John Brown - State Radio (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
9. All Along the Watchtower - Dave Matthews Band (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
10. Subterranean Homesick Blues - Michael Franti (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
11. Mama, You Been on My Mind - We Are Augustines (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
12. Tryin' to Get to Heaven - Lucinda Williams (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
13. Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) - Kris Kristofferson (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
14. Gotta Serve Somebody - Eric Burdon (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
15. I'd Have You Anytime - Evan Rachel Wood (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
16. Baby Let Me Follow You Down - Marianne Faithfull (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists
17. Forever Young - Pete Seeger (previously unreleased, featuring Rivertown Kids) ~ Various Artists
18. Chimes of Freedom - Bob Dylan ~ Various Artists
Album Notes and Credits
Notes & Personnel Info |
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Tributee: Bob Dylan. |
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Tributee: Bob Dylan. |
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Liner Note Author: Sean Wilentz. |
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Illustrator: Mick Haggerty. |
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Photographer: Jerry Schatzberg. |
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Designed as a celebration for Amnesty International's 50th Anniversary, Chimes of Freedom is the mother of all tribute albums: a four-disc salute to Bob Dylan that runs some 76 songs performed by singers from all corners of the globe. Apart from Lennon/McCartney -- the former of which was the subject of producers Jeff Ayeroff and Julie Yannatta's previous 2007 collection Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur -- no other songwriter of the rock & roll era could attract so many different artists from so many different genres as Dylan, something that is a testament to the resilience of his catalog. From the very start of his career, Dylan saw his songs covered by all manners of artists, ranging from colleagues and peers to longhair rock bands, easy listening outfits, and weirdos like William Shatner, so the absurd abundance of Chimes of Freedom in a way fits into the grand pattern of history: his songs were always up for grabs, they've survived terrible misguided covers, they've been performed with loving faith, they've been reinvented once and again. Given its monumental length, it should be of no great surprise that Chimes of Freedom has songs that fall into each category, although it is surprisingly bereft of awfulness. Not even Miley Cyrus' painful-in-theory straight-ahead cover of "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" is awful: she may not know who Verlaine and Rimbaud are, but she focuses on the melody and winds up selling the song in the process. Most of the artists here perform a similar trick, choosing love songs over protests, keeping things intimate instead of anthemic. Naturally, there are exceptions to the rule, but the scales on Chimes of Freedom are tipped toward pretty stripped-down sincerity -- even Ke$ha abandons Auto-Tune for a nearly a cappella interpretation of "Don't Think Twice It's Alright" -- an aesthetic that's easy to digest and helps make the artists that do something different pop out dramatically: Flogging Molly's Pogues-ian run through "The Times They Are A-Changing," Bryan Ferry's eerie reading of "Bob Dylan's Dream," Elvis Costello adding spikes to "License to Kill," Sin?ad O'Connor tearing up "Property of Jesus," and Queens of the Stone Age tapping into Bob's rowdy side with a tremendous "Outlaw Blues." After a parade of faithful salutes ranging from Billy Bragg's impassioned "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" to Lenny Kravitz's absurd re-creation of "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35," it's great to hear actual re-interpretations of Dylan's songs -- after all, even Bob himself doesn't always sing the same song the same way twice. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine |
Producer: Martin Lewis |
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Musical Guests | |
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The Avett Brothers |
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Danielle Haim |
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Pajama Club |
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Nabil Khayat |
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Freelance Whales |
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Chuck Criss |
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Rivertown Kids |
Technical Info
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Release Date : 01/24/2012 |
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Original Release Date : 2012 |
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Catalog ID : 01001 |
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Label : Amnesty International |
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Number of Discs : 4 |
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Mono/Stereo : Stereo |
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SPAR Code : n/a |
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UPC : 00817974010016 |
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (p.60)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "Pete Townshend's fingerpicked `Corrina, Corrina' captures the grace and grief of Dylan's best love songs..."
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "Pete Townshend's fingerpicked `Corrina, Corrina' captures the grace and grief of Dylan's best love songs..."
Uncut (magazine)
(p.88)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "Some straightforward takes are lovely -- Mark Knopfler's 'Restless Farewell', Thea Gilmore's 'I'll Remember You'."
(p.88)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "Some straightforward takes are lovely -- Mark Knopfler's 'Restless Farewell', Thea Gilmore's 'I'll Remember You'."
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