50 Years of Blonde on Blonde is a live album by Old Crow Medicine Show. It is a track-for-track tribute to Bob Dylan's landmark 1966 double album Blonde on Blonde.
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| Released | April 28, 2017 | |||
| Recorded | May 2016 | |||
| Venue | CMA Theater, Nashville TN | |||
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| Length | 65:00 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Ted Hutt and Ryan Mall | |||
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Production edit
50 Years of Blonde on Blonde was recorded live at the CMA Theater at the Country Music Hall of Fame, in Nashville, Tennessee, in May 2016.[2] The concert coincided with a Hall of Fame exhibit exploring Dylan's time in Nashville.[3] In an interview, band members Ketch Secor and Critter Fuqua described how they had bonded over Dylan's songs as teenagers, and that the 50 Years... project was a natural extension of that collaboration.[4] While the new recording follows the sequence of Dylan's original track-for-track, Old Crow took considerable liberties with the arrangement of individual tracks, for instance reimagining "Pledging My Time" as a "hillbilly breakdown," and "Obviously 5 Believers" as "a manic fiddle riot."[2] The recording was released as an album on April 28, 2017. It was the band's first release on their new label, Columbia Records, which had released Dylan's original album in 1966.
Personnel edit
- Ketch Secor – Vocals, fiddle, harmonica, banjo, mandolin, guitar
- "Critter" Fuqua – Guitar, vocals, banjo, accordion, dobro, drums
- Kevin Hayes – Guitjo, harmonica & backing vocals on track 1, lead vocals on track 7
- Morgan Jahnig – Upright bass, backing vocals on track 1
- Chance McCoy – Guitar, kazoo, backing vocals, fiddle, dobro, banjo, co-lead vocals on track 12
- Cory Younts – Keyboards, backing vocals, mandolin, drums, marching snare drum, whistle
- Joe Andrews - Banjo, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, dobro, marching bass drum
- Robert Price - Drums on track 10
Live performances edit
Old Crow Medicine Show undertook a planned 27-date tour in support of 50 Years... in May and June, 2017. Shows were scheduled in the United States, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.[2][5]
Track listing edit
The track listing mirrors that of the original album. All tracks written by Bob Dylan.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Rainy Day Women#12 & 35" | 4:10 |
| 2. | "Pledging My Time" | 1:57 |
| 3. | "Visions of Johanna" | 6:55 |
| 4. | "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)" | 4:59 |
| 5. | "I Want You" | 3:14 |
| 6. | "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" | 7:29 |
| 7. | "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" | 3:37 |
| 8. | "Just Like a Woman" | 4:10 |
| 9. | "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine" | 3:37 |
| 10. | "Temporary Like Achilles" | 3:29 |
| 11. | "Absolutely Sweet Marie" | 4:33 |
| 12. | "4th Time Around" | 4:22 |
| 13. | "Obviously 5 Believers" | 2:47 |
| 14. | "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" | 9:27 |
See also edit
Notes edit
- ^ "50 Years of Blonde on Blonde – Old Crow Medicine Show – Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 27 August 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ^ a b c "How Old Crow Medicine Show Reimagined Bob Dylan's 'Blonde on Blonde'". rollingstone.com. 27 April 2017. Archived from the original on 26 August 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
- ^ "Old Crow Medicine Show Make Old Bob Dylan New Again at NYC 'Blonde on Blonde' Concert". billboard.com. Archived from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
- ^ "Talkin' Fifty Years of Bob Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde"". The New Yorker. 24 May 2017. Archived from the original on 2 September 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
- ^ "Old Crow Announce 50 Years Of Blonde On Blonde". crowmedicine.com. Archived from the original on 26 August 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
External links edit
- Rolling Stone – How Old Crow Medicine Show Reimagined Blonde on Blonde
- The New Yorker – Talkin Fifty Years of Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde