This Bird Has Flown
Sufjan Stevens has contributed the track “What Goes On” to the upcoming Beatles Rubber Soul tribute album titled This Bird Has Flown. Listen to Sufjan’s track at the tribute album official site.
Release Date: October 25th
Press release and information from Razor & Tie:
RAZOR & TIE TO RELEASE TRIBUTE TO BEATLES’ “RUBBER SOUL” ON 40th ANNIVERSARY OF ALBUM’S RELEASE
“This Bird Has Flown — A 40th Anniversary Tribute To The Beatles’ Rubber Soul” out October 25th
Album to feature stellar line-up including Sufjan Stevens, The Fiery Furnaces, Ben Harper, Dar Williams, Mindy Smith, The Donnas and many more
In honor of the 40th anniversary of the release of The Beatles’ legendary album, Rubber Soul, Razor & Tie Entertainment is proud to announce This Bird Has Flown ? A 40th Anniversary Tribute To The Beatles’ Rubber Soul. The 14-track album hits stores on October 25th and will mirror the sequencing of the original UK release of Rubber Soul.
This Bird Has Flown features some of today’s hottest artists including Sufjan Stevens, The Fiery Furnaces, Ben Harper, Dar Williams, Mindy Smith, The Donnas and many more. Of the importance of Rubber Soul, Allison Robertson of The Donnas commented, “They got a little more folky, they got a little more funky and more rocking… it was so different, it was like heavy and light at the same time.”
The album is produced by Jim Sampas (producer of 2002’s Badlands: A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska). On choosing the line-up of artists on the record, Sampas stated, “As we looked toward artists we would approach, we felt they should be kindred spirits, whose gifts for singing and arranging lend themselves to these melodies and themes. Each artist on this album brought their own fascinating interpretations and have extracted new meanings from Rubber Soul.”
Originally released in the United Kingdom on December 6, 1965, the George Martin-produced Rubber Soul is considered to be an extraordinarily important album in The Beatles catalogue, the first flowering of the complex songwriting and production techniques of their later releases. The album features the now-ubiquitous songs “Nowhere Man”, “Drive My Car”, “Michelle” and “In My Life” among others. It held the #1 position on the British album charts for eight weeks and remained on the chart for a total of forty-two weeks. In 1966, “Michelle” won John Lennon and Paul McCartney the Grammy for Song Of The Year. To date, Rubber Soul has been certified 6x platinum.
Tracklist:
- The Donnas - Drive My Car
- The Fiery Furnaces - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
- Dar Williams - You Won’t See Me
- Low - Nowhere Man
- Yonder Mountain String Band - Think For Yourself
- Mindy Smith - The Word
- Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - Michelle
- Sufjan Stevens - What Goes On
- Rhett Miller - Girl
- Ted Leo - I’m Looking Through You
- Ben Lee - In My Life
- Ben Kweller - Wait
- Nellie McKay - If I Needed Someone
- Cowboy Junkies - Run For Your Life
August 2nd, 2005 admin
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