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Title - He Took Us By Storm: 25 Lost Bob Dylan Classics
Artist - Various

For those unaware, He Took Us By Storm: 25 Lost Classics From The Bob Dylan Folk-Rock Revolution Era (out now via Bear Family Records) is a never heard before CD compilation, dedicated to the charismatic musician and author who revolutionized folk and rock music like no other in the 60’s and became the worldwide figurehead of a cultural upheaval in youth culture: Bob Dylan.

Compiled with expertise and passion by French producer Philippe Le Bras for Bear Family Records®, this anthology features original recordings, mostly from the mid-1960s.

Dylan-inspired artists such as Dion, Lou Reed, Bobby Darin, Leon Russell, David Crosby, Boz Scaggs, Bob Seger, Johnny Winter, David Blue and many others try to catch up with their mentor and colleague and produce songs in the idiom he pioneered.

Not a single Dylan song on this album, and yet the master can be heard throughout! It also includes a foreword by the late John Sinclair, essays by Iggy Pop and Elliott Murphy, extensive liner notes and numerous rare illustrations and memorabilia in the 48-page booklet.

1. Dion - Two Ton Feather
2. Eric Andersen - Honey
3. Dick Campbell - You’ve Got to be Kidding
4. Bobby Darin - Me & Mr Hohner
5. P.F. Sloan - Halloween Mary
6. Jackie Washington - Long Black Cadillac
7. Len Chandler - Feet First Baby
8. David Crosby - Willie Jean
9. Lou Reed - Men of Good Fortune (May 1965 Demo)
10. Casey Anderson - Little Girl
11. Bubba Fowler - Next Year This Time
12. Dean DeWolf - Pistol Slapper Blues
13. David Blue - The Gasman Won’t Buy Your Love
14. Tom Rush - You Can’t Tell A Book By The Cover
15. Barry McGuire - Don’t You Wonder Where It’s At
16. Bob Seger & The Last Heard - Persecution Smith
17. Ferré Grignard - Drunken Sailor
18. Peter LaFarge - Easy Rider
19. Donovan - Universal Soldier
20. Boz Scaggs - Baby Let Me Follow You Down
21. Billy Joe Royal - These Are Not My People
22. Leon Russell - Everybody’s Talking About the Young
23. Johnny Winter - Birds Can’t Row Boats
24. Dino Valenti - Black Betty
25. Sammy Walker - Vigilante Man

This vibrantly live, honed and deliciously impassioned new collection opens on Dion’s melodious Two Ton Feather, Eric Andersen’s train track-imbibed rocker Honey, and Dick Campbell’s take on the lyrically brilliant You’ve Got to be Kidding and then comes the funky side of country music with Me & Mr Hohner (Bobby Darin), the seasonal beauty Halloween Mary (P.F. Sloan), the low slung blues feel to Long Black Cadillac (Jackie Washington), and then we get Len Chandler’s funk-grooved blues that drives Feet First Baby, the Pre-Bryds David Crosby’s take of Willie Jean, Lou Reed’s emphatic Men of Good Fortune (May 1965 Demo, and taken from his masterpiece album, Transformer), and then we get the strident Little Girl (Casey Anderson) and both Bubba Fowler’s fired up Next Year This Time and Dean DeWolf’s take on the blues-hued, harmonica-driven Pistol Slapper Blues.

The next set opens on David Blue’s funky blues take of The Gasman Won’t Buy Your Love, the authentic folk roll of You Can’t Tell A Book By The Cover (Tom Rush), and the veritably shimmering psych folk of Don’t You Wonder Where It’s At (Barry McGuire), and then we are brought forth Bob Seger & The Last Heard’s frenetic, incredibly underrated Persecution Smith, Ferré Grignard’s warbled Drunken Sailor, the dulcet ballad Easy Rider (Peter LaFarge), and the anti-war song Universal Soldier (Donovan), and they are in turn backed by Boz Scaggs’s harmonica-driven Baby Let Me Follow You Down and the gentle, yet rhythmic These Are Not My People (Billy Joe Royal), the collection closing out on Leon Russell’s version of Everybody’s Talking About the Young (which sounds a tad bit more Sonny Bono than Dylan, but each to their own), the statuesque Birds Can’t Row Boats (Johnny Winter), and finally both the blues-folk-rock flavor of Black Betty (Dino Valenti) and Sammy Walker’s dutiful Vigilante Man.

Bob Dylan made his mark on US pop culture in the 1960s with his performances, his songwriting and lyrics like no other contemporary. An icon of folk and rock music, he influenced a generation of fellow artists who were either unable or unwilling to escape his charisma.

French music producer Philippe Le Bras spent years developing the concept of a compilation on which Dylan’s influence is obvious at every second, although not a single cover version of his songs can be found. Yet the master is present on every track on this CD, leaving his mark on these songs and their performers.

It’s quite remarkable who is here: Lou Reed, Leon Russell, David Crosby, Boz Scaggs, Bob Seger, Bobby Darin, Tom Rush, Len Chandler, Dion, Peter La Farge, Barry McGuire, Casey Anderson, Ferré Grignard, Dick Campbell, P.F. Sloan, Dean DeWolf, Johnny Winter, Billy Joe Royal, David Blue and others.

Dylan blew every one of these artists away just as he had this listener. He took us by storm! - John Sinclair, Detroit, April 11th, 2023.

This record is living proof of his early dedicated followers. Accurate and skillfully crafted! - Barry Goldberg, March 2023.

The album is perfectly researched, thought-out and presented in a wise way. - Ben Blackwell, Third Man Records, 2023.

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