No songwriter of the last half of the 20th century - or the present one - has cast a longer shadow than Bob Dylan. As singer Eliza Gilkyson once put it, “He was always about breaking out of structure, as a lyricist, a poet/philosopher/storyteller. He irreverently and irrevocably turned the suburban backyard of folk music into a mysterious tangled forest of unlimited possibilities.”

The artists on this album, all of the from Red House Records, represent a broad spectrum from the folk and roots world, covering friends and admirers, from peers to singers and songwriters of succeeding generations. All continue to be influenced by his on-going vision, and the song choices are drawn from various period of Bob’s career.

Track listing
1 What Good Am I? The Pines
2 Just Like a Woman John Gorka
3 Mama, Let Me Lay It on You (Baby, Let me Follow You Down) Hot Tuna
4 Every Grain of Sand Lucy Kaplansky
5 Lay Down Your Weary Tune Storyhill
6 The Days of '49 Spider John Koerner
7 Dirt Road Blues Pieta Brown
8 Buckets of Rain Danny Schmidt
9 House of the Rising Sun Guy Davis
10 Jokerman Eliza Gilkyson
11 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Cliff Eberhardt
12 It Takes a lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry Ray Bonneville
13 Born in Time Meg Hutchinson
14 Not Dark Yet Jimmy Lafave
15 Mozambique Peter Ostroushko
16 Walkin' Down the Line Robin and Linda Williams

£12.99

review 13 May 2011