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„I’m Not There“ Gets 34th Track; Million Dollar Bashers Revealed
Well it wouldn’t be a Playlist Saturday without an update on the Todd Haynes directed, Bob Dylan biopic „I’m Not There“ update, right? Another inside source enjoying our blog, has let us know that when we originally reported 34 tracks and speculated the soundtrack would be 2-disc set, we were correct.
Our last update had what we assumed was the soundtrack’s final 33 songs (though as we stated earlier, no we don’t believe the tracklist will actually be alphabetical) so we thought our original source was bad at arithmetic. However, the missing 34th track is John Doe (ex of X) doing a second cover, „I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine“ from 1967’s John Wesley Harding.
Another big question we had was the identity of The Million Dollar Bashers – the band that backs a multitude of the artists covering Zimmy songs on the soundtrack, including Eddie Vedder, Karen O, Stephen Malkmus and Tom Verlaine (ex of Television).
Considering it has already been reported that Malkmus‘ sessions were recorded with Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo and Dylan bass player Tony Garnier, we figured these two were involved. Turns out we weren’t far off the mark. Our source also revealed the band’s membership which includes the aforementioned Ranaldo and Garnier, plus Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, Verlaine, keyboardist John Medeski (from Martin, Medeski and Wood), guitarist Smokey Hormel (onetime Beck guitarist, Smokey & Miho) and Wilco avante-guitarist Nels Cline.
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