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Earnest Covers, February 21, 2004
This review is from: It Ain't Me Babe (Audio CD)
Being a Dylan fan I indulge myself (though not very proud of it)once in a while in buying cd's with covers of Dylan songs. Most of them I listen to(barely)once and place them on my shelve permanently. This compilation is different. It is not a compilation of renditions by pitiful Dylan wannabee's, but instead by artists on their own right to whom Dylan's music, poetics and social message meant something. So you listen to the songs sung by artists as if they were their own. All the songs are old, the covers are mostly from the early sixties and some from the early seventies done solely by British artists. You get beautiful songs by Mike Heron of the Incredible String Band, Lonnie Donegan and other more obscure artists. The cd has a unified emotional climate: it is very British and very sixties and folk not pop in character. I enjoyed it very much, and I would recommend this disc not only to 'those who wouldn't plan to go to heaven unless Dylan is leading the angelic host', but to anyone interested in the British folk scene of the sixties.
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Ummmm, not that Heron., September 4, 2007
This review is from: It Ain't Me Babe (Audio CD)
The review below is just fine, but I would like to correct one thing. The Heron which appears on the compilation being reviewed is not Mike Heron of the ISB, but a British folk group who put out several albums of their own and one very much worth having best of. Their version of John Brown is indeed worth having - from their version I was convinced it was an authentic folk tune, never having heard Dylan perform it.
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