Miley Cyrus has released her contribution to "Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs Of Bob Dylan", a compilation of Dylan covers by major artists in support of Amnesty International.
Cyrus submitted "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" and released the video below via the Amnesty Facebook page over the weekend. The original first appeared on Dylan's 1975 album "Blood On The Tracks".
The countryfied version was considered by Rolling Stone to be a positive surprise amid several weaker tracks, with Lady Gaga producer RedOne and My Chemical Romance's contributions considered weak efforts among more impressive and modest versions by Pete Townshend and Ke$ha.
The full compilation, which features 4 CDs worth of exclusive covers by major artists, was released yesterday. More than 70 songs were recorded and considered for its release.
"This album is a powerful fusion of the music community's respect for Amnesty's life-affirming work and for Bob Dylan's enduring brilliance," said producers Jeff Ayeroff and Julie Yannatta. "We are proud to have worked with Amnesty to produce this remarkable project."
You can preview and buy the album from Amnesty International here.
Watch Miley Cyrus cover "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" right here:
Full Tracklist for "Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs Of Bob Dylan":
CD1:
01. Raphael Saadiq "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" 02. Patti Smith "Drifter's Escape" 03. Rise Against "Ballad Of Hollis Brown" 04. Tom Morello The Nightwatchman "Blind Willie McTell" 05. Pete Townshend "Corrina, Corrina" 06. Bettye LaVette "Most Of The Time" 07. Charlie Winston "This Wheel's On Fire" 08. Diana Krall "Simple Twist Of Fate" 09. Brett Dennen "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" 10. Mariachi El Bronx "Love Sick" 11. Ziggy Marley "Blowin' In The Wind" 12. The Gaslight Anthem "Changing Of The Guards" 13. Silversun Pickups "Not Dark Yet" 14. My Morning Jacket "You're A Big Girl Now" 15. The Airborne Toxic Event "Boots Of Spanish Leather" 16. Sting "Girl From The North Country" 17. Mark Knopfler "Restless Farewell"
CD2:
01. Queens Of The Stone Age "Outlaw Blues" 02. Lenny Kravitz "Rainy Day Woman # 12 & 35" 03. Steve Earle & Lucia Micarelli "One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)" 04. Blake Mills "Heart Of Mine" 05. Miley Cyrus "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" 06. Billy Bragg "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" 07. Elvis Costello "License To Kill" 08. Angelique Kidjo "Lay, Lady, Lay" 09. Natasha Bedingfield "Ring Them Bells" 10. Jackson Browne "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" 11. Joan Baez "Seven Curses (Live)" 12. The Belle Brigade "No Time To Think" 13. Sugarland "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (Live)" 14. Jack's Mannequin "Mr. Tambourine Man" 15. Oren Lavie "4th Time Around" 16. Sussan Deyhim "All I Really Want To Do" 17. Adele "Make You Feel My Love (Recorded Live at WXPN)"
CD3:
01. K'NAAN "With God On Our Side" 02. Ximena Sariñana "I Want You" 03. Neil Finn with Pajama Club "She Belongs To Me" 04. Bryan Ferry "Bob Dylan's Dream" 05. Zee Avi "Tomorrow Is A Long Time" 06. Carly Simon "Just Like a Woman" 07. Flogging Molly "The Times They Are A-Changin" 08. Fistful Of Mercy "Buckets Of Rain" 09. Joe Perry "Man Of Peace" 10. Bad Religion "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" 11. My Chemical Romance "Desolation Row (Live)" 12. RedOne featuring Nabil Khayat "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" 13. Paul Rodgers & Nils Lofgren "Abandoned Love" 14. Darren Criss featuring Chuck Criss and Freelance Whales "New Morning" 15. Cage The Elephant "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll" 16. Band Of Skulls "It Ain't Me, Babe" 17. Sinéad O'Connor "Property Of Jesus" 18. Ed Roland and The Sweet Tea Project "Shelter From The Storm" 19. Ke$ha "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" 20. Kronos Quartet "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"
CD4:
01. Maroon 5 "I Shall Be Released" 02. Carolina Chocolate Drops "Political World" 03. Seal & Jeff Beck "Like A Rolling Stone" 04. Taj Mahal "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" 05. Dierks Bentley "Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) (Live)" 06. Mick Hucknall "One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)" 07. Thea Gilmore "I'll Remember You" 08. State Radio "John Brown" 09. Dave Matthews Band "All Along The Watchtower (Live)" 10. Michael Franti "Subterranean Homesick Blues" 11. We Are Augustines "Mama, You Been On My Mind" 12. Lucinda Williams "Tryin' To Get To Heaven" 13. Kris Kristofferson "Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)" 14. Eric Burdon "Gotta Serve Somebody" 15. Evan Rachel Wood "I'd Have You Anytime" 16. Marianne Faithfull "Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Live)" 17. Pete Seeger "Forever Young" 18. Bob Dylan "Chimes Of Freedom"
DIGITAL ONLY:
01. Outernational - "When The Ship Comes In" 02. Silverstein - "Song To Woody" 03. Daniel Bedingfield - "Man In The Long Black Coat"
This is it. UG in a nuthsell.
There are SO many songs to talk about here. Covers by My Morning Jacket, Queens of the Stone Age, Ziggy Marley, Dave Matthews, Elvis Costello, Sting, and SO many other more respectable artists. Who do they constantly bring up? Miley Cyrus and Ke$ha. Oh, and how My Chemical Romance;s song is weaker than Ke$ha's (whether if it is or it isn't, that comment was done on purpose to spark anger. I can't stand either, btw).
Why not focus on the collection as an entirety, with its ups and its lows, and stop focusing and making specific articles for each of the terrible songs? Just sad.
Bob Dylan is on his own tribute album. Stay classy, man.
There are lots of good artist on this album set and for some reason I still feel like when you google "cluster****" this should be the first result. Maybe its the fact is a sort of B list group of people as far as I'm concerned.
This is it. UG in a nuthsell.
There are SO many songs to talk about here. Covers by My Morning Jacket, Queens of the Stone Age, Ziggy Marley, Dave Matthews, Elvis Costello, Sting, and SO many other more respectable artists. Who do they constantly bring up? Miley Cyrus and Ke$ha. Oh, and how My Chemical Romance;s song is weaker than Ke$ha's (whether if it is or it isn't, that comment was done on purpose to spark anger. I can't stand either, btw).
Why not focus on the collection as an entirety, with its ups and its lows, and stop focusing and making specific articles for each of the terrible songs? Just sad.
Pretty much this, I have no idea what UG's obsession with Miley Cyrus/Kesha/Lady Gaga is. Seems it's impossible for them to do anything without UG picking up on it and making some snide comments. Boooring.
it sounds like she spent two solid months in the heart of louisiana singing drinking songs with a bunch of downhome folks before recording this cover. respect for her ability to change her voice like that, she's eveolving as an artist, though i heavily agree with thsi:
Pagan_Poetry wrote:
This is it. UG in a nuthsell.
There are SO many songs to talk about here. Covers by My Morning Jacket, Queens of the Stone Age, Ziggy Marley, Dave Matthews, Elvis Costello, Sting, and SO many other more respectable artists. Who do they constantly bring up? Miley Cyrus and Ke$ha.
However, this compilation album looks phenomenal, 4 effing cd's worth of covers? and they managed to get a pretty strange/intriguing generational crossing on it too? Who would think you'd see silversun pickups, natasha bedingfield, patti smith and silverstein all on one album? that's tight imo.
I don't think it's that bad. She's not the best singer in the world but neither was Dylan and her voice suits the song pretty well. Then again, I'm not familiar with the original and not a big Dylan fan in general so this isn't like blasphemy to me.
It would be nice if everyone on here wasn't so closed-minded. I'm not at all a Miley Cyrus fan (nor do I like any pop music), but this cover actually isn't bad.
I do agree, though, that there are so many more respectable artists that they could have chosen to mention. I guess UG just has a thing for shitty pop stars. =/
They want you to click. Click click click. UG is an underdog website, but its the only website I use for quick and easy access on rock-headlines.
By putting Miley or Ke$ha on the front page, they try to band us together, to gang up on, (or at least start a hot topic conversation on) making us a stronger community. True, not a very wise approach, but it's not as serious as the butthurt users make it.
And can you all honestly say, you'd click on the link if it said, "Bob Dylan Cover Album". Yes, many, but not all. At least not as many people as they succeeded with by putting up Miley.
Considering who here father is I can see here being familiar with Dylan's music, and this cover wasn't to bad seems like she did a good job of playing to her strength's. Not to mention, she might sound like a man when she talks, but she's hot!
This is it. UG in a nuthsell.
There are SO many songs to talk about here. Covers by My Morning Jacket, Queens of the Stone Age, Ziggy Marley, Dave Matthews, Elvis Costello, Sting, and SO many other more respectable artists. Who do they constantly bring up? Miley Cyrus and Ke$ha. Oh, and how My Chemical Romance;s song is weaker than Ke$ha's (whether if it is or it isn't, that comment was done on purpose to spark anger. I can't stand either, btw).
Why not focus on the collection as an entirety, with its ups and its lows, and stop focusing and making specific articles for each of the terrible songs? Just sad.
Pretty much this, I have no idea what UG's obsession with Miley Cyrus/Kesha/Lady Gaga is. Seems it's impossible for them to do anything without UG picking up on it and making some snide comments. Boooring.
It's because rage, anger and controversy generate more hits and comments than god-natured items of actual interest. U-G has proven time and itme again it does not give the slightest shit about being a respectable news site; on a daily basis it copy & pastes entire articles (spelling errors and all) from other websites, it rarely posts any article without making some reference to a Top 40 act and every review and feature is skewd towards what will rile up the 16-year-old metalheads the most.
And I don't blame them. It's sad, obnoxious and an absolute waste of what this space could be used for, but a site like this is like any other company. It's here to make money and this is what brings in the clicks. The only thing you can really take issue with is the outright thievery that goes on as they continue to c&p other peoples' writing, but by this point it's clear U-G won't stop until it's sued so there's not much point complaining about it.
I don't understand the people who rip this girl apart for the cover then say 'I am never going to listen to this, I am going to avoid ever listening to her'.
If you don't hear it, you can't criticise it, at least listen to it before you bash it.
Although i'll be honest, it probably still suck when you listen to it, but lets hope for a surprisingly good rendition.
It's not a terrible cover. Frankly, she suits stuff like this a lot better than the awful music she produces.
I'm looking forward to Jack's Mannequin's Mr Tambourine Man!
As someone who has wanted to plow Miley for years, I don't like or dislike this. I will say I think this fits her voice better than the lame pop stuff she does.
TO EVERYONE SUCKING BOB DYLANS DICK... CALM DOWN!!! if hes ok with it than why does it matter to you??? Its obvious that your "hero" like Miley and all the other artist too. HA!
Cool to see Brett Dennen on the list. Dude deserves more recognition. Also, Miley should've learned that covers aren't exactly her best bet. If Kurt wasn't already dead, he certainly would've been after her SLTS cover.
I don't know if ug is hoping I love mily cyrus or bob dylan either way both suck bring me some real music news about real ****ing bands that play real instruments. Considering this is a guitar website this shouldn't be too much to ask
...Bob Dylan sucks?
Bob Dylan has nothing to do with real instruments or real bands?
This is it. UG in a nuthsell.
There are SO many songs to talk about here. Covers by My Morning Jacket, Queens of the Stone Age, Ziggy Marley, Dave Matthews, Elvis Costello, Sting, and SO many other more respectable artists. Who do they constantly bring up? Miley Cyrus and Ke$ha. Oh, and how My Chemical Romance;s song is weaker than Ke$ha's (whether if it is or it isn't, that comment was done on purpose to spark anger. I can't stand either, btw).
Why not focus on the collection as an entirety, with its ups and its lows, and stop focusing and making specific articles for each of the terrible songs? Just sad.
Pretty much this, I have no idea what UG's obsession with Miley Cyrus/Kesha/Lady Gaga is. Seems it's impossible for them to do anything without UG picking up on it and making some snide comments. Boooring.It's because rage, anger and controversy generate more hits and comments than god-natured items of actual interest. U-G has proven time and itme again it does not give the slightest shit about being a respectable news site; on a daily basis it copy & pastes entire articles (spelling errors and all) from other websites, it rarely posts any article without making some reference to a Top 40 act and every review and feature is skewd towards what will rile up the 16-year-old metalheads the most.
And I don't blame them. It's sad, obnoxious and an absolute waste of what this space could be used for, but a site like this is like any other company. It's here to make money and this is what brings in the clicks. The only thing you can really take issue with is the outright thievery that goes on as they continue to c&p other peoples' writing, but by this point it's clear U-G won't stop until it's sued so there's not much point complaining about it.
One way to change that would be if the UG community as whole made it a point to stop reading/reacting to these articles. Traffic would slip and they'd be forced to change their model.
This really isn't all bad, the music stays pretty true to the original, even pretty much simplifies it and her singing isn't at all bad or anything. I think if you inserted someone else's name, say a relatively unknown female vocalist, this would be praised. Trust me, I'm all for bashing the mileys and gagas and biebers of the world, but I really can't knock this song. And i've always loved this song because of the Ashtabula name drop (town I grew up in, don't know if that is what he is actually talking about, but its just cool to hear it in a song.) so I have a special place for this song and thought for sure this cover was gonna butcher it. Pleasantly surprised.
My biggest problem is with Townsend covering Corrina, Corrina, which is an awesome song but it isn't a Dylan song, it was a cover. And why must artists duplicate songs? Dylan has more than enough songs, there's no reason for two covers of "Don't Think Twice It's Alright."
I'm not gonna listen to it over and over, but I didn't think the her cover was bad at all. I can't say this with certainty, as I've never heard anywhere near everything she's done, but I believe this could easily be the best thing she's ever done.
It sounds pretty damn good, though.
But she can't touch Queens of the Stone Age doing the Outlaw Blues.
It's not a terrible cover, but not even close to one of the best on the album. I just bought it and, although I haven't listened to it all yet, I am really enjoying Seal and Jeff Beck's contribution.
I gave it a shot and it's really not bad. It's not going to turn me into a Miley fan, but ****, it's miles better than her Smells Like Teen Spirit cover.
A brave move for Cyrus, considering all the negative feedback generated from her Nirvana cover...Covers don't seem to work for her and neither does her original work...Sounds like she needs to return to Disney.
There's a lot of bands on this that I really like, but listening to the samples online, nobody has really done any of Dylan's Songs any justice. In all fairness, it's hard to do a good Dylan cover. Hendrix, Ministry, and Mike Ness all have done good Dylan covers. The covers on this album are all just really sterile and boring.
This is it. UG in a nuthsell.
There are SO many songs to talk about here. Covers by My Morning Jacket, Queens of the Stone Age, Ziggy Marley, Dave Matthews, Elvis Costello, Sting, and SO many other more respectable artists. Who do they constantly bring up? Miley Cyrus and Ke$ha. Oh, and how My Chemical Romance;s song is weaker than Ke$ha's (whether if it is or it isn't, that comment was done on purpose to spark anger. I can't stand either, btw).
Why not focus on the collection as an entirety, with its ups and its lows, and stop focusing and making specific articles for each of the terrible songs? Just sad.
It's easier to bandwagon rag than to write creatively...
"Pretty Nice" isn't a good way to review something, but considering I associate Miley Cyrus with being really annoying with her trying-too-hard antics, that was actually pretty nice.
I'd have preferred if UG reported on Mark Knopfler's contribution, though.
