Tengo Does Dylan. Nice.
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Yo La Tengo Does Dylan (Sunsquashed Archives)
Every year during Yo La Tengo&rsquo;s Hanukkah shows at Maxwell&rsquo;s, the band takes time to pay tribute to some Great Jewish Songwriters &mdash; and inevitably, a certain Robert Zimmerman&rsquo;s tunes show up from time to time. YLT has long had an affinity for Dylan, stretching at least back to the version of &ldquo;I Threw It All Away&rdquo; which capped off President Yo La Tengo back in the 80s. Bob and Ira Kaplan are also linked by their Gerdes Folk City connections &mdash; Dylan played some of his earliest shows at the positively-4th-Street club and Ira booked the infamous &ldquo;Music For Dozens&rdquo; shows there in the early 80s. Ira, Georgia and James are generally far from reverent when taking on these hallowed tunes &mdash; and that&rsquo;s what I like the most about this compilation (the second volume of our trawl through the Sunsquashed Archives). I get the feeling YLT thinks of Dylan less as a mythic, generation defining icon, and more of a great pop songwriter. Highlights include the droning, dreamy &ldquo;It Takes A Lot To Laugh,&rdquo; the garage-tastic &ldquo;Rolling Stone&rdquo; jam (nicked from the Soup Greens) and the lovely country waltz of &ldquo;Wallflower.&rdquo; Zimmy himself doesn&rsquo;t show up, but Yo La Tengo get a helping hand from his old Budokan buddy David Mansfield on an utterly gorgeous &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll Keep It With Mine.&rdquo; How does it feel!?&nbsp;
1. It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry, 8/31/99, BBC Radio 12. Like A Rolling Stone, 10/13/89, Maxwell&rsquo;s (Robert Vickers on bass)3. I Threw It All Away, 2/17/11, Triple Door, Seattle, WA4. One More Night, 12/6/02, Maxwell&rsquo;s5. I Wanna Be Your Lover, 12/6/07, Maxwell&rsquo;s (with various dB&rsquo;s)6. Sooner or Later (One Of Us Must Know), Maxwell&rsquo;s (with Jeff Tweedy)7. Wanted Man, 3/8/97, WFMU 8. Wallflower, 9/15/98, Maxwell&rsquo;s (with Dave Schramm)9. Absolutely Sweet Marie, 12/21/08, Maxwell&rsquo;s (with Cyril Jordan)10. 4th Time Around, 11/7/07, Beacon Theatre, NYC (with Terry Jones and Buckwheat Zydeco)&nbsp;11. I&rsquo;ll Keep It With Mine, 12/30/05, Maxwell&rsquo;s (with David Mansfield)***Bonus***12. You&rsquo;re A Big Girl Now, 12/26/08, Maxwell&rsquo;s (Lambchop, with James McNew on bass)
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Thanks to all the tapers! In case you missed it, we&rsquo;re posting these rare Yo La Tengo recordings in the lead-up to Jesse Jarnow&rsquo;s Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock, published next month by Gotham Books. Jesse is on&nbsp;Twitter and Facebook, offering many more YLT treats. And of course, the band itself is at www.yolatengo.com.&nbsp;
