The first tournament round begins today! Match-ups are randomly chosen, and you can vote for your favourites by visiting the forum posts listed below. You must be a registered user to vote, and though the winners will be determined by our panel of judges, they may be influenced by your popular votes! So share your entry on facebook or elsewhere, and get your friends to make their picks!
Here are your round 1 match-ups:
PS: Please note that, with US Thanksgiving upon us, many people will be away visiting family (including at least one of our Judges), so your patience with the results is appreciated.
Filed under: Webcast News Tags: by Pete Date 23 November, 2011
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The results from the Battle Audition Round are in, and I’m pleased to present our tournament competitors below. The math is simple: two or more “yeas” from our three judges move the entry on to the tournament. However, like all previous battles, everyone wins because everyone becomes a permanent part of the DylanRadio.com songpool – so don’t fret if you don’t see your fave in this list. That said, here is your list of competitors and their selected song:
A Band on Stage: License to Kill
Al Diesan & PinoTocco: With God On Our Side
Alessandro Cavazzuti: Trying To Get To Heaven
Ben Schuurmans & Luigi Catuogno: Every Grain of Sand
Bill Madison: Ballad Of A Thin Man
Blood on the Tracks: Tangled Up In Blue
Born 53: Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window
Bruno Cattivelli: Mama You Been On My Mind
David Bertsch: Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Dennis Heller: Things Have Changed
Die DoubleDylans: Taunus (Highlands)
Dylan Dogs: Blowing in the Wind
Frenchy Burrito: Things Have Changed
Frenchy Burrito And The Folk Pistols: Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)
Hard Rain: As I Went Out One Morning
Homesick Chronicles: Ballad of a Thin Man
HOW MANY ROADS: You Angel You
Invisible Republic: I’m Not There
Ivy: Tomorrow Night
Jacques Mees: North Country Blues
Kaj Wilhelm (Joker): Lenny Bruce
Kurt Matthew: Never Say Goodbye
Lou Belto: What Was It You Wanted (Cosa Volevi)
Luigi Catuogno: Man Gave Names To All The Animals
Maggie’s Farm Southern Band: I Shall Be Released
Matze Schmidt: Mainwasser (Highwater)
Maurenbrecher & Band: Eternal Circle
Michael Roberts: One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
PetTommy: License To Kill
Robobob: Shelter from the Storm (Division 5 Reconstructed)
Roger Holmroos: Girl of North Country
Slop Mountain Ramblers: Do Right To Me Baby
Sofia Laiti: I Shall Be Released
Stagwolf: Make You Feel My Love
Terry Cotton: Shelter From The Storm
The Bob Band: All Along the Watchtower
The Hideaways: From A Buick 6
The Highlights: Everything is Working
The Infidels: Senor
The Royal Alberts: From A Buick Six
Triple Moon: Not Dark Yet
Tudesque: Schweri Ziite (A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall)
Vaughn Young: Song To Woody
Wilbur: Outlaw Blues
Zelda Smyth: One More Cup of Coffee
Zimming Point: Like a Rolling Stone
The tournament will kick off next week, so check back for details. In the meantime keep on Bobin’!!
Filed under: Webcast News Tags: by Pete Date 10 November, 2011
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I’m excited to announce that the BATTLE HAS BEGUN!! We kick off with an “audition round” in which our three judges (Fred Bals, Bruce Slutsky, & Karen Veith) will evaluate each entry and vote to see who will move on the first tournament round. Don’t worry if you don’t make the cut, because your entry will forever remain a part of the DylanRadio.com songpool, for requests and regular airplay. Speaking of which, all the entries have been added to the songpool so you can request your song, or your favourite entry and promote they heck outta yourself throughout the duration of the Battle! CLICK HERE TO CHECK ‘EM OUT!
Artists – if you see any problem with your entry, don’t hesitate to email me at battle@dylanradio.com with the complete text you want corrected. I wish each and every one of you the utmost success. I’m just so pleased that DylanRadio.com has this opportunity to showcase your talent!
PS: Thanks to all for your patience this past month. I hope your patience pays off with a great Battle!
Filed under: Webcast News Tags: by Pete Date 31 October, 2011
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All the entries are in, and we’re presently collating them and getting them ready for competition! We’ve got a great field this year, so keep your eyes peeled for details in the next couple of days!
Filed under: Webcast News Tags: by Pete Date 6 October, 2011
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The time has finally come! Registration is now open for the 2011 Battle of the Dylan Cover Bands. We had a fantastic array of competitors over the past two years, so let’s make this third year even better! If you are a musical artist or band who has a broadcast-quality Dylan cover recorded, please click here for more information including how to register for the battle. If you are a fan or know someone who you think should enter, please encourage them to go to www.dylanradio.com/battle and get in the game! All entries must be in by October 1st!
Like last year, this year’s battle will be determined by three judges. Fans will also be able to vote, and we encourage you to do so because your votes might just sway a judges opinion! Now, let’s meet this year’s judges…
Fred Bals is a writer and researcher from New Hampshire, and one of the most respected commentators in the Dylan fan community. Fans of Fred’s Dreamtime Podcast (which kicks off our day here on DylanRadio.com every morning at 7am), are already familiar with his wife, “Jailbait Jones” and his two feline friends, “The Top Cats.” In addition to Dreamtime, Fred also runs DylanTweets on Twitter which provides regular Dylan news updates, as well as serving as a moderator on ExpectingRain.com. Among Fred’s other historical exploits, he’s saved Tom Waits from arrest, wooed Maria Muldaur, and fought with Johnny Rotten over ownership of a wedding ring.
Bruce Slutsky was born in New York City in 1949. He’s been a fan of Bob Dylan since Like A Rolling Stone was a hit in 1965. Bruce is also a kindred spirit because he has been a big fan of the New York Mets since the teams inception in 1962. His wife Karen and 23 year old son Lee share the same passions. When he’s not watching the Mets or listening to Dylan or covers of his songs he work as a science/engineering librarian for the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Check out Bruce’s blog at bruceslutsky.com where you can search for “Bob Dylan” and you’ll find tons of article he’s written on the subject.
Karen Veith is a retired high school English teacher turned Zumba instructor. A long-time Dylan fan who has attended a couple dozen shows, she’s also a well-known collector of Dylan bootlegs (over 1100 shows). For past several years, Karen’s been a moderator of the Never Ending Pool Dylan set-list game where you may know her better as “LaughsLikeTheFlowers.”
Filed under: Webcast News Tags: by Pete Date 29 August, 2011
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Filed under: Webcast News Tags: by Pete Date 15 August, 2011
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Here’s a great, new way to support DylanRadio.com! If you’re like most people, including yours truly, you probably do a fair amount of shopping online. If so, here’s an easy way to support the station! All you need to do is bookmark dylanradio.com/shop or just click “Shop” in the top menu. Then, any time you want to shop at eBay, Amazon.com or iTunes, just use our shopping page as your portal to go to those sites. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, and these stores kick us a few pennies every time you buy something. Thanks in advance for your continued support!
Now to a couple of new additions to the song pool. I get some interesting things in the mail, including CDs and occasional donations, but here’s one that was definitely strange. Last week, I received a registered letter from the US State Department, specifically from the US Embassy in Slovenia. I KNOW! WEIRD, RIGHT? The envelope included a CD and a letter.
Here’s an exerpt:
Greetings from the U.S. Embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I am writing to you out of the blue for a very good reason: We have undertaken a completely unique approach to cultural diplomacy, and the result – besides being cool for reasons I will outline below – rocks.
The upshot is that we asked Slovenia’s best musicians to choose a different Bob Dylan song to cover. They chose wisely, as you can hear. The music styles reflect the diversity of Slovenia, and run the gamut from Vlado Kreslin (nicknamed “the Bob Dylan of Slovenia”) to world-famous soprano Sabina Cvilak to internationally-renowned Laibach.
We did it for several reasons, not least being that we love Dylan. But we also wanted to create a hook with which to grab Slovenian youth. Because 2011 is the E.U. Year of Volunteering, and we wanted to promote volunteerism and raise Slovenians’ awareness about a host of important issues, from human trafficking, violence against women, and asylum issues lo the environment, regional cooperation and civic activism. [...]
So to those who don’t think Bob’s music is just as relevant today, I say BOLLOCKS! We also received a great collection entitled “If Not For You: A Tribute to Bob Dylan” performed by artists Jack Tannehill, Will Hoppey, Steve Lane & Steve Sevek, and a tribute to the Basement Tapes by Invisible Republic entitled “A Basement Tapes Revival“. You can find all of these fascinating new additions in the songpool.
Filed under: Webcast News Tags: by Pete Date 28 July, 2011
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Hey folks! I’ve been working all morning trying to fix this problem with the choppy broadcast, and I think we’ve finally got it licked. Thank you for your patience and continued support even through this buggy period. Bottom line, though, is I had to do some upgrading of services so between those upgrades, plus eating the additional costs of the birthday celebration & hard-drive upgrade, DylanRadio.com is in desperate need of your donations. We’ve got a number of new listeners in addition to our veterans, so I hope some of you pitch in and lend a hand with a donation. Again, continued thanks for your support. Keep spreading the Dylan love!!
PS: I’ve added the Odense, Denmark show to the songpool. Great to hear some of the DR Regulars had a great time together at that show.
Filed under: Webcast News Tags: by Pete Date 18 July, 2011
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Some tantalizing new sweets have been added to the songpool. Thanks to our beloved Wilbur for Thea Gilmore’s tribute to Bob. Go check ‘em out…
Filed under: Webcast News Tags: by Pete Date 6 July, 2011
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Thanks to everyone who helped celebrate Canada Day, and for indulging me in this little musical coup. Rest assured, programming tomorrow will be back to normal. One of the reasons I never felt the need to diversify this station is because you folks keep on supporting our commitment to Dylan-only content. Thanks for that, and I hope you’ll continue to support us with your donations, sponsor-visits and spreading the word!
Filed under: Webcast News Tags: by Pete Date 1 July, 2011
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Welcome to CANADA DAY on DylanRadio.com! Your friends and neighbours in the Great White North are celebrating their 144th birthday, and since DylanRadio is run by a Canadian (yours truly) and broadcasts from the beautiful Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia, Canada, I hope you’ll indulge me as we share some of music from the homeland. Help us celebrate by requesting a Canadian artist, and may God keep YOUR land glorious and free too!
PLEASE NOTE: The noon airing of Theme Time will be preempted for our celebration. The 10pm episode will air as usual.
Filed under: Webcast News Tags: by Pete Date 1 July, 2011
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July 1st is CANADA DAY!! Long-time listeners already know that there’s one day out of the year where DylanRadio.com goes a little off the rails. As a proud Canadian, I hijack the station every Canada Day and celebrate the many awesome bands & artists from the Great White North. You’ll still hear Dylan, but you’re also going to hear so much more! However, coupled to our national pride is our national shame, so I make this solemn pledge: You will not hear one single note by Celine Dion on this station. On behalf of my country, I sincerely apologize for that mess of musical pablum.
So tune in tomorrow! Celebrations begin whenever I drag myself to the computer in the morning. Expect to see me lingering around here for most of the day too.
Filed under: Webcast News Tags: by Pete Date 30 June, 2011
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I hope you all had an awesome Dylan Day and are safely recovering from yesterday’s jubilation. We had a CRAZY time here on DylanRadio with massive server traffic and having to upgrade the shoutcast server twice to keep up with all the listener traffic. I hope we can keep some of that momentum rolling and that these upgrades might be permanent.
Thanks to each and every one of you who hung out, donated, spread the word or just tuned-in here at DylanRadio.com!!
Filed under: Webcast News Tags: by Pete Date 25 May, 2011
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Here at DylanRadio.com, we celebrate Bob every single day, but May 24th is always extra-special! It’s Bob’s 70th Birthday, so kick back with DylanRadio, send some shoutout dedications to The Man himself, and chat with other fans here on the website! We’re also shaking up the playlist in a couple of ways: You’ll discover that the request/dedication rules are relaxed more than usual so YOU get to be the DJ and make the station sing for all the fellow fans out there.
Intertwined with your no-doubt-awesome playlist choices we’re going to play a few great programs. We’ll kick it off today (Monday) at 6pm with the BBC Radio program “What’s So Great About Bob Dylan.” If you have family/friends who haven’t learned to love him yet, this show is a great crash-course on why they should. Then at 8pm tonight we’ve got “The Folk Show” birthday special! Here’s the schedule for the special programs, but remember that all times are Atlantic (daylight savings, GMT -3), so subtract an hour for Eastern (etc), and don’t forget to spread the word on your Facebook & MySpace!
- 6pm May 23: What’s So Great About Bob Dylan? (BBC Radio)
- 8pm May 23: Folk Show Birthday Special (91.3 FM WUNH Durham)
- 10pm May 23: Theme Time Radio Hour with the theme “Time“
- 9am May 24: 1962′s Folksinger’s Choice radio show (with Cynthia Gooding)
- 12 noon May 24: Theme Time Radio Hour with the theme “Young & Old“
- 2pm May 24: The Freewheelin’ Dylan 70th Birthday Tribute (BBC Radio)
- 10pm May 24: Theme Time Radio Hour with the theme “Party!“
- 12 midnight: We’ll wrap it up tonight with the At Budoken concert (still my personal fave!)
And don’t forget to take a second to send some shoutouts to the folks on the DylanRadio.com facebook page. I also hope many of you will have the opportunity to get together with other fans to celebrate, but no matter what I hope each and every one of you have an AWESOME DYLAN DAY – you guys are amazing and deserve it for the way you continue to support this station.
PS: I got asked a few times if there’s going to be a Battle this year. Answer? Of course! It’s going to be later in the fall this year, but don’t worry – watch for entry-info later this summer!
PPS: Look for a couple great new collections of covers in the songpool courtesy of our beloved Wilbur!
Filed under: Webcast News Tags: by Pete Date 23 May, 2011
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Phil ‘Fang’ Volk, known as the spirited bass player for Paul Revere & The Raiders, has independently released a cover of Bob Dylan’s enormously popular hit “The Times They Are a-Changin’” as a single. Check out the Goldmine article on the release, or go request the song in our songpool!
Filed under: Webcast News Tags: by Pete Date 12 May, 2011
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