Many of the songs are Dylan hits from years gone by and some are quite new.  The really fun aspect of this music is hearing the
different interpretations expressed in different languages and styles from all over the world-World music filled with Bob Dylan.  Dylan sings a number of his own songs too, but the
feel of the album is all encompassing of our great blue planet.
Keep on Bob, lets have some more.

Bob Dylan - The Reissue Series Sampler Masked And Anonymous - Music From The Motion Picture In Stores Tuesday, July 22                   (dateline - New York - Columbia Records - July 8, 2003)                   Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax will release Masked And Anonymous - Music From The Motion Picture, the album of music from the eagerly-awaited feature film starring  Bob Dylan, in the artist's first dramatic role in 16 years, as well as Jeff Bridges, Penelope                  Cruz, Jessica Lange, John Goodman and Luke Wilson. Masked And Anonymous - Music From The Motion Picture will be in stores on Tuesday, July 22.
 

Masked And Anonymous - Music From The Motion Picture features 12 Bob Dylan compositions performed by various artists and two traditional folk tunes. Four of the album's new recordings are performed in the film by Bob Dylan himself and created especially for the movie: "Dixie" and "Diamond Joe" are traditional songs recorded and  performed by Dylan for the first time here while "Cold Irons Bound" and "Down In The        Flood" are new performances of classic songs. "City of Gold," a bonus track performed by the Dixie Hummingbirds, is a previously unreleased Bob Dylan song. Also featured are the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Los Lobos, Shirley Caesar and an array of  international artists including the Turkish sensation Sertab and Italy's Articolo 31 performing the world's first, and probably last, version of "Like A Rolling Stone" to           incorporate both a sound sample from Dylan's original recording and a
new rap in Italian.  (Please see the full track listing from Masked And Anonymous - Music From The Motion Picture which follows.)

After the principle filmmaking for "Masked And Anonymous" had been completed, two  final days were taken to lens Dylan and his band - Larry Campbell (guitar), Charlie Sexton (guitar). Tony Gamier (bass), recent addition George Recile (drums) — creating  what would become the first official live recordings to be released in the US of Dylan performing with this outstanding touring ensemble. Eight of those historic performances    can be heard in the film while four are available for the first time on Masked And Anonymous - Music From The Motion Picture.

"Masked And Anonymous" is the first feature film to be directed by Larry Charles.  Charles has directed multiple episodes of Larry David's HBO series, "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and served as a writer, producer, supervising producer and executive producer on two of modem television's most successful comedies, "Seinfeld" and "Mad About You." He is the recipient ofaPeabody Award, a Golden Globe, two Emmy Awards and three additional Emmy nominations for his work on "Seinfeld," along 
with two additional Emmy nominations for "Mad About You."
When it came time to select the music for "Masked And Anonymous," Charles went through literally thousands of existing Dylan covers from performers around the globe before settling on the extraordinary picks included on the film's soundtrack and album.

 "This film is like the interior landscape of a great Bob Dylan song," Charles has said,  "rich with vivid imagery, poetic language and the dance of reality and illusion."  Set in what Charles calls a "mythological Third-World America," "Masked And Anonymous" stars Bob Dylan as "Jack Fate," a fallen rock legend who's sprung from jail well past his prime to perform a benefit concert. Also starring in the film are Jeff
 Bridges, John Goodman, Jessica Lange, Penelope Cruz, and Luke Wilson with an ensemble cast including Angela Bassett, Bruce Dem, Ed Harris, Giovanni Ribisi, Mickey Rourke, Christian Slater, Fred Ward and more.
 A limited edition digi-pak version of Masked And Anonymous - Music From The Motion Picture - featuring the bonus disk Bob Dylan - The Reissue Series Sampler -will also be available. The Reissue Series Sampler highlights seven recordings from the upcoming Bob Dylan 
hybrid Super Audio CD reissue series, the first major upgrade of
Bob Dylan's catalog, representing every phase of his legendary career. 

The Reissue Series Sampler includes a previously unreleased live 
version of Dylan's classic "All I Really Want To Do" from the upcoming The Bootleg Series Vol. 6, Bob Dylan LIVE 1964, the Philharmonic Hall Concert. The sampler has two distinct layers: a newly remastered stereo mix that plays on any CD player and a layer containing both a high-
resolution SA-CD stereo version and a 5.1 multichannel surround version — of the same repertoire - that works on Super Audio CD-compatible players.

 Masked And Anonymous - Music From The Motion Picture  Track Listings

1. MY BACK PAGES - performed by the Magokoro Brothers
Courtesy ofKiloon Records Inc. and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. (P) 1995 Kiloon Records Inc.
2. GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY - performed by Shirley Caesar Courtesy of Word Entertainment (P) 2003 Burning Rose Production, Ltd.
3. DOWN IN THE FLOOD (New Version) - performed by Bob Dylan Courtesy of Columbia Records (P) 2003 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
4. IT'S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE - performed by the Grateful Dead Courtesy of Arista Records (P) 1981/2003 Grateful Dead Productions
5. MOST OF THE TIME - performed by Sophie Zeimani
Courtesy of Columbia Records and Sony Music Entertainment (Sweden) AB (P) 2000 Sony Music Entertainment (Sweden) AB.
6. ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS - performed by Los Lobos
Courtesy of Mammoth Records, Inc. (P) 2003 Mammoth Records
7. DIAMOND JOE - performed by Bob Dylan Courtesy of Columbia Records (P) 2003 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
8. Come Una Pietra Scalciata (LIKE A ROLLING STONE) - performed by Articolo 31Courtesy ofBMG Italy under license from BMG Special Products, Inc. (P) 1998 Best Sound Sri.
 9. ONE MORE CUP OF COFFEE - performed by Sertab
 Courtesy of Columbia Records and Sony Music Entertainment (Turkey) A.S.  (P) 2003 Sony Music Entertainment (Turkey) Muzik Ve Sanat A.S.
 10. NON DIRLE CHE NON E' COSP (If You See Her, Say Hello) - performed by  Francesco de Gregori  Courtesy of Serraglio Edizioni Musicali and Sony Music Entertainment (Italy) Inc.  (P) 1997 Serraglio Edizioni Musicali
 11. DIXIE - performed by Bob Dylan Courtesy of Columbia Records
 (P) 2003 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
 12. SENOR (TALES OF YANKEE POWER) - performed by Jerry Garcia
 Courtesy of Arista Records Inc. and the Jerry Garcia Estate LLC
 (P) 1991 Arista Records, Inc.
 13. COLD IRONS BOUND (New Version) - performed by Bob Dylan
 Courtesy of Columbia Records (P) 2003 Sony Music Entertainment Inc. 

Limited Edition Disc Tracklisting

1. All I Really Want To Do  from the upcoming The Bootleg Series Vol. 6. Bob Dylan LIVE 1964, The Philharmonic Hall Concert                     (previously unreleased)

2. Love Minus Zero/No Limit  from Bringing It All Back Home

3. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again                      from the album Blonde on Blonde

4. Tangled Up In Blue  from the album Blood On The Tracks

5. Gotta Serve Somebody  from the album Slow Train Coming

6. Moonlight from the album "Love & Theft"

7. Cold Irons Bound  bonus track from the album Masked And Anonymous: Music From The Motion Picture 
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