Jack White is one of a host of artists who Bob Dylan has enlisted to write music for a set of unfinished lyrics penned by country and rock icon Hank Williams.
The project will bear fruit this year, White reckons.
“[Dylan] came upon, somehow, 20-25 unfinished songs by Hank Williams, just the lyrics, no music, and he started to ask people if they would finish these songs,” White told MTV News.
“He did one, asked Willie Nelson to do one, asked me to do one, and I think Lucinda Williams and Alan Jackson are on it too. I think it might come out this year. It's a cool record.”
White recently recorded a version of a song titled ‘You Know That I Know’ in Nashville for the album, but he also hinted at another musical project to sit alongside this, The White Stripes and The Raconteurs.
"There's some other stuff I have coming out, but I can't tell you about it all just yet. You'll have to be patient!"
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he certainly
is a weird looking man.
Jack does look like a '60s Batman villain in that photo
but that's a good thing in my opinion
jack white is turning into michael jackson?!
arghhh!
hmm
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/296/2896/640/DeppJacksonWhite.jpg
THIS^^
i dont think white could get away with half of what jacko has!
are you suggesting
that jacko HAS gotten away with his surgery?
Hang on a minute...
“[Dylan] came upon, somehow, 20-25 unfinished songs by Hank Williams, just the lyrics, no music, and he started to ask people if they would finish these songs,”
Didn't Wilco and Billy Bragg record all them on 2 very good albums a few years ago!
no
Those were Woody Guthrie lyrics. But that was the first thing I thought of when I read this story too.
chronicles
in chronicles vol1 dylan talks about the guthrie stuff, he was on his way to collect the songs on a winter night but it was snowing so he gave up, and the songs ended up siting there for decades waiting for billy bragg and wilco to pick them up. they did a good job too. lovely records - mermaid avenue 1 & 2...
also
also, chronicles is an incredible book - even if you dont get too much out of dylan as a singer.
The way he jumped about in time throughout
the narrative will allow him to still be discussing his career peak in Vol. 3
Good idea and good book.