Johnny come lately strums on Dylan’s Basement Tapes
This week in London respected American producer T Bone Burnett revealed a video of his latest project, Lost in the River: The Basement Tapes, on which a handful of artists including Elvis Costello and Marcus Mumford have written music for lyrics penned and supplied by Bob Dylan.
Dylan found the long-forgotten scraps from his own Basement Tapes, recorded at the Big Pink in 1967, in a box last year and handed over the previously unseen words to Burnett with orders to do something with them.
We’ll hear the results in November, but ring-in Johnny Depp is on there, standing in for Costello on one song on guitar because the Liverpudlian had a gig to go to elsewhere on the day of recording. “I was glad to have him as an understudy,” Costello says.
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