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Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs Of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years Of Amnesty International
 
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Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs Of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years Of Amnesty International

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Disc 1:
  Song Title Artist Time Price    
Play   1. One Too Many Mornings The Avett Brothers 3:47 £0.89
Play   2. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat Raphael Saadiq 3:43 £0.89
Play   3. Drifter's Escape Patti Smith 3:21 £0.89
Play   4. Ballad Of Hollis Brown Rise Against 5:12 £0.89
Play   5. Blind Willie McTell Tom Morello, The Nightwatchman 5:15 £0.89
Play   6. Corrina, Corrina Pete Townshend 2:34 £0.89
Play   7. Most Of The Time Bettye LaVette 5:16 £0.89
Play   8. This Wheel's On Fire Charlie Winston 3:07 £0.89
Play   9. Simple Twist Of Fate Diana Krall 3:51 £0.89
Play 10. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere Brett Dennen 3:04 £0.89
Play 11. Love Sick Mariachi El Bronx 3:41 £0.89
Play 12. Blowin' In The Wind Ziggy Marley 2:43 £0.89
Play 13. Changing Of The Guards The Gaslight Anthem 5:22 £0.89
Play 14. Not Dark Yet Silversun Pickups 6:23 £0.89
Play 15. You're A Big Girl Now My Morning Jacket 5:10 £0.89
Play 16. Boots Of Spanish Leather The Airborne Toxic Event 5:12 £0.89
Play 17. Girl From The North County Sting 2:54 £0.89
Play 18. Restless Farewell Mark Knopfler 5:49 £0.89
Disc 2:
  Song Title Artist Time Price    
Play   1. Outlaw Blues Queens Of The Stone Age 4:08 £0.89
Play   2. Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 Lenny Kravitz 4:08 £0.89
Play   3. One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) Steve Earle 4:43 £0.89
Play   4. Heart Of Mine Danielle Haim 5:30 £0.89
Play   5. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go Miley Cyrus 3:33 £0.89
Play   6. Lay Down Your Weary Tune Billy Bragg 4:18 £0.89
Play   7. License To Kill Elvis Costello 5:13 £0.89
Play   8. Lay, Lady, Lay Angélique Kidjo 3:09 £0.89
Play   9. Ring Them Bells Natasha Bedingfield 4:09 £0.89
Play 10. Love Minus Zero/No Limit Jackson Browne 4:21 £0.89
Play 11. Seven Curses Joan Baez 5:04 £0.89
Play 12. No Time To Think The Belle Brigade 8:05 £0.89
Play 13. Tonight, I'll Be Staying Here With You Sugarland 3:56 £0.89
Play 14. Mr. Tambourine Man Jack's Mannequin 4:27 £0.89
Play 15. 4th Time Around Oren Lavie 4:22 £0.89
Play 16. All I Really Want To Do Sussan Deyhim 5:18 £0.89
Play 17. Make You Feel My Love Adele 4:04 £0.89
Disc 3:
  Song Title Artist Time Price    
Play   1. With God On Our Side K'naan 3:39 £0.89
Play   2. I Want You Ximena Sarina 3:36 £0.89
Play   3. She Belongs To Me Neil Finn 2:58 £0.89
Play   4. Bob Dylan's Dream Bryan Ferry 3:54 £0.89
Play   5. Tomorrow Is A Long Time Zee Avi 3:58 £0.89
Play   6. Just Like A Woman Carly Simon 5:11 £0.89
Play   7. The Times They Are A-Changin' Flogging Molly 3:01 £0.89
Play   8. Buckets Of Rain Fistful Of Mercy 3:14 £0.89
Play   9. Man Of Peace Joe Perry 7:42 £0.89
Play 10. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Bad Religion 3:06 £0.89
Play 11. Desolation Row My Chemical Romance 3:01 £0.89
Play 12. Knockin' On Heaven's Door Nadir Khayat 3:52 £0.89
Play 13. Abandoned Love Paul Rodgers 4:32 £0.89
Play 14. New Morning Chuck Criss 3:06 £0.89
Play 15. Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll Cage The Elephant 5:01 £0.89
Play 16. It Ain't Me, Babe Band Of Skulls 3:22 £0.89
Play 17. Property Of Jesus Sinead O'Connor 3:36 £0.89
Play 18. Shelter From The Storm Ed Roland 4:11 £0.89
Play 19. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Ke$ha 3:49 £0.89
Play 20. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Instrumental Version) Kronos Quartet 4:01 £0.89
Disc 4:
  Song Title Artist Time Price    
Play   1. I Shall Be Released Maroon 5 4:09 £0.89
Play   2. Political World Carolina Chocolate Drops 2:48 £0.89
Play   3. Like A Rolling Stone Seal 7:24 £0.89
Play   4. Bob Dylan's 115th Dream Taj Mahal 5:01 £0.89
Play   5. Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power) Dierks Bentley 3:50 £0.89
Play   6. One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) Mick Hucknall 4:58 £0.89
Play   7. I'll Remember You Thea Gilmore 4:47 £0.89
Play   8. John Brown State Radio 4:49 £0.89
Play   9. All Along The Watchtower Dave Matthews Band 7:03 £0.89
Play 10. Subterranean Homesick Blues Michael Franti & Spearhead 2:17 £0.89
Play 11. Mama You Been On My Mind We Are Augustines 3:29 £0.89
Play 12. Tryin' To Get To Heaven Lucinda Williams 4:42 £0.89
Play 13. Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) Kris Kristofferson 2:38 £0.89
Play 14. Gotta Serve Somebody Eric Burdon 4:56 £0.89
Play 15. I'd Have You Anytime Evan Rachel Wood 3:53 £0.89
Play 16. Baby Let Me Follow You Down Marianne Faithfull 2:28 £0.89
Play 17. Forever Young Pete Seeger 3:15 £0.89
Play 18. Chimes Of Freedom Bob Dylan 7:10 £0.89
Play 19. When The Ship Comes In Outernational 3:26 £0.89
Play 20. Song To Woody Silverstein 2:11 £0.89
Play 21. Man In The Long Black Coat Daniel Bedingfield 2:27 £0.89
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
By G. E. Harrison TOP 500 REVIEWER
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Profits from this 4-disc CD go towards human rights organisation Amnesty International, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2011, also the year that Dylan played his first gig. To paraphrase Bill Bryson writing about his recent book `African diary', think of this as a donation to a very worthy cause, with a free CD! Most people in this country would have first been aware of Dylan in the early 60s as a songwriter rather than a performer, with his songs being performed by artists such as Peter, Paul and Mary, the Byrds and Joan Baez.

This is an interesting collection of artists, with 60s veterans like Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson and Pete Townsend; people who came to prominence in the 70s - Sting, Elvis Costello, Patti Smith and newer acts like My Morning Jacket, Queens of the Stone Age and the Dave Mathews Band. There are also many acts who are completely off my radar - Cage the Elephant, The Belle Brigade and Zee Avi?? Also, some people have suggested that the pop performers featured here -such as Miley Cyrus, Natasha Bedingfield and Kesha - are out of their depth but Dylan doesn't only write difficult wordy political and surreal allegories but also songs of whimsy and straightforward love songs and ballads which anybody can sing. We get the full gamut of Bob's oeuvre here from the early classics like "Blowing in the wind" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" to mid-period songs like "Most of the time" and "Gotta serve somebody", more recent songs like "Love sick" and obscurities such as "Seven curses".

There is a lot of music here, lots of variety - folk, rock, jazz, blues - some of it works fine, others don't work so well - with the main fault being too respectful to the original version of the songs. Everyone will have their own ideas what works and what doesn't, I don't intend to criticise any of the acts, who have all contributed to a worthy cause.

My own personal highlights were Mark Knopfler's Celtic take on "Restless farewell", Elvis Costello's very individual version of "License to kill", Sinead O'Connor's "Property of Jesus" and Maroon 5's "I shall be released". I particularly liked the one-off special combinations like Paul Rogers and Nils Lofgren's "Abandoned love" and Seal and Jeff Beck's "Like a rolling stone" and Steve Earl and Lucia Micarelli's "One more cup of coffee". I also really enjoyed performances by two artists I hadn't heard of before, Charlie Winston's "This wheel's on fire" and Blake Mills "Heart of mine" - with its marvelous slide guitar. We also get two serial Bob-botherers - Bryan Ferry and Mick Hucknell, as well as Taj Mahall who the law decrees has to appear on every tribute album. It was also good to hear the great Pete Seeger, the excellent Bettye Lavette, 60s survivors Marianne Faithfull and Eric Burden and even Adele's recent hit with ""Make you feel my love". It was also a nice touch to finish with Bob's own version of "Chimes of Freedom".
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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
By Trev-R TOP 500 REVIEWER
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I was in two minds to write a review or not as the one review already up here seems to cover most of what I would want to say. Forgetting the good cause and concentrating on the music I would say 75% of the artists I have not heard of and of the remaining 25% I probably not buy music from 15% of them. However this album opens up those artists to me using the universal music of Bob Dylan. This isn't a covers album but an album of interpretations of Dylan's music. You need to come to it with an open mind especially if you are a hard core Dylan fan.

Overall I believe it is a good album for a good cause and while there were some low points I would say they were more than made up for by some really great interpretations.
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I am not a huge Bob Dylan fan! (all the Dylanites open their mouths in shock!) There, I've got that out of the way so Dylan fans you can now breathe again! This album might not be a lot of people's cup of tea but I was actually impressed in quite a few places by these covers from Bob's extensive songbook. I like how the collection brings together artists old and new in an attempt to do his songs justice and raise the spotlight on Amnesty International in the process.

There were a few surprises for me, I loved Eric Burdon's take on 'Gotta Serve Somebody'. Was blown away by Flogging Molly committing crimes against Bob's music with their Punky take on 'The Times They Are A Changin', and even My Chemical Romance trashing the life out of 'Desolation Row' was brilliant.

No matter how much people may dislike Adele I have to say her version of 'Make You Feel My Love' is much better than some of the versions I've seen and heard Bob playing live! I heard his version in a store one day and some kids were mortified saying, "I can't believe that man is ruining an Adele song like that!" Well it made me laugh!

Some people I'm sure are going to look at the artists included in this collection and shake their heads in dismay, Miley Cyrus? Really? But you have to know that no matter how much people are going to speak against it she actually does a fine job on 'Your Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go', and I will understand those who will go crazy against Ke$sha murdering 'Don't Think Twice It's Alright' (probably the least pleasant track on the album for me).

I could mention a lot more songs, but then I'd have to go on a bit too long. The only question that needs to be asked is, "Should I buy it?" If you are like me you'll go ahead and take a chance. It's a great price for 4CD's.

I hope Bob is happy with this. I do tend to disagree with the BBC review that has been posted, Paul Whitelaw should be embarrassed a little that his "sprawling folly" of a review is liable to put people off buying it, but it's a good thing we don't always listen to reviewers isn't it!
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BRILLIANT!!
I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan and A supporter of Amnesty International therefore I had to buy this album. Its fantastic, there are some brilliant versions of some incredible tracks. Read more
Published 4 days ago by Kingy
chimes of freedom
I am still getting used to the various people singing dylan songs and what I like best. I'm enjoying it for all the songs I haven't heard before too.It grows on me.
Published 18 days ago by Mr. Aj Russell
Dylan's diversity shows
For Dylan fans these seems to be a 'must have'.

It is a sufficiently diverse collection of both Dylan's catalogue and musical styles. Read more
Published 1 month ago by rowanrogers
Pleasant enough
I don't think that there are any versions on here that are going to become among my personal favourite Dylan covers, but whilst most tracks are average there are some highlights. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Graham R. Hill
DYLAN TRIBUTE CD
I tossed up before buying as I read an ordinary review but I am loving the 4 CD's .

There are some great versions here and you can understand the words! Read more
Published 1 month ago by Magpie666
Deadly
This was one of the biggest disappointments I've ever purchased. I'm not a Dylan fan,so didn't get as incensed as I could have at some of the dreary self-indulgent arrangements, on... Read more
Published 2 months ago by 2wicked
Mostly fresh versions of the stuff
Let's face it, the guy has been covered more times than is always comfortable, and some of the attempts are execrable. So it's good to find such a large selection of good things. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Neil French
plenty of choice
always difficult to copy a master, always compare to the genius so almost always second class unless your hendrix ie. another genius. But some really good stuff
Published 2 months ago by bettyparry
Chimes of Freedom
Brilliant collection. So many Dylan songs that I didn;t know sung so well by a great variety of artists.
I will be listening to this for a long time.
Published 2 months ago by nessa
Different to expected
I bought this to support Amnesty and being from a generation that grew up with Dylan.

The range of different artists from many different styles and generation provide a... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. Peter Davey
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