Marty Brown Releases “Make You Feel My Love”

Country Make You Feel My Love

Country singer-songwriter Marty Brown launched a major comeback on America’s Got Talent when he stood on the stage and sang Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love.” Now, Brown has made an official recording of the song, which is available for download starting February 5.

The new single was produced in Nashville by Keith Stegall. As we have previously noted on Chimesfreedom, “Make You Feel My Love” is one of Dylan’s great late-career classics, and Brown reminds us of that with his wonderful rendition of the song. His performance of the song on America’s Got Talent continues to win new fans for the singer, who had his first taste of success in the early 1990s. So, it is fitting that he is now releasing an official version of his cover of the Dylan classic.

To help promote the release of “Make You Feel My Love,” Brown created a short video announcing the release and playing us a sample. Check it out.

To celebrate the release of “Make You Feel My Love,” Brown’s Facebook page contains a special event page, and there is a Google+ link too. Learn more about upcoming shows on Marty Brown’s website.

April 2016 Update: Below is the official Marty Brown video for “Make You Feel My Love.” That’s Brown’s real-life wife joining him in the diner.

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    1970 Radio Interview With Townes Van Zandt

    Townes Radio Interview

    In 1970, Townes Van Zandt sat down for a radio interview with Juliet Brown on Pacifica Radio in Houston, Texas. Through the wonders of the Internet, you may listen to an excerpt of the interview below.

    In 1970, Van Zandt’s career was on the upswing after releasing his first three albums: For the Sake of the Song (1968), Our Mother the Mountain (1969), and Townes Van Zandt (1969). His personal life, however, had hit some road bumps as he had recently divorced his first wife Fran Petters.

    Van Zandt is engaging and playful in the interview, even reading some news from Paul McCartney about the Beatles. The highlight, though, is when Van Zandt plays his guitar and sings “Nothin'” (around the 3:55 mark).

    “Nothin'” would later appear on Van Zandt’s 1971 album Delta Momma Blues.


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    The Story Behind the Album Cover: Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde”

    Blonde on Blonde

    I have been enjoying listening to the new Bob Dylan release, The Cutting Edge 1965–1966: The Bootleg Series Vol.12 (2015). The new package in the Bootleg series — which is available as a 2-CD, 6-CD, or 18-CD set — features outtakes, rehearsal tracks, and alternate versions of songs from the sessions for Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Highway 61 Revisited (1965), and Blonde On Blonde (1966). So, while thinking about those classic albums, it is a good time to revisit the album cover for Blonde on Blonde.

    In this video, Bob Egan from PopSpots interviews Jerry Schatzberg, the photographer who took the classic photo of Dylan that appeared on the cover of Blonde on Blonde. Together, the two men travel the streets of New York City to tell the story of how the album cover photo came to be. Check it out.

    You may check out a similar video about the story behind the photograph on the cover of Highway 61 Revisited.

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    Visiting the 14 Cities of “The Heart of Rock & Roll”

    Cities Huey Lewis

    Like many of us, Mike Feld is a fan of Huey Lewis and the News. But Feld did something creative with his love of the band by visiting each of the fourteen cities that Lewis name checks in “The Heart of Rock & Roll.” Feld also takes us along for the ride in a new video he made.

    Feld explains that he started out on the journey to see what connected those cities in a way that Lewis would list them in his song. And so Feld set out to travel “10,484 miles on 11 planes. 636 miles on 4 trains. 962 miles in 5 rental cars.”

    Check out Feld’s version of the song where he helps prove “the heart of rock & roll is indeed still alive and beating.”

    “The Heart of Rock & Roll” appeared on the 1984 Huey Lewis and the News album Sports. The lyrics “the heart of rock and roll is still beating” developed from a comment Lewis made after the band had performed in Cleveland. On the tour bus, Lewis noted, “You know, the the heart of rock and roll really is in Cleveland.” From that comment, the song developed as a tribute to great rock and roll cities. But in the evolution, Cleveland ended up with a brief mention despite the fact that the city provided the original inspiration for the song.

    On tour, though, the band often altered lyrics to highlight the name of the town where they were performing. The heart of rock and roll is wherever you make it.

    Fianlly, if you wonder what Huey Lewis thinks of Feld’s version of “The Heart of Rock & Roll,” he answered that question with a tweet.


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    MLK on Merv Griffin

    Those who remember The Merv Griffin Show, which ran on TV in various forms from 1962 to 1986, remember that Merv Griffin often had interesting conversations with guests from a number of fields, not just entertainment. In 1967, Griffin sat down with Martin Luther King Jr. to discuss the Civil Rights Movement.

    In the segment, King joins Griffin and actor-activist Harry Belafonte in some discussion of King’s life, family, and the state of the world in 1967. We often hear King giving emotional speeches, but it is interesting to hear King laughing and talking in a relaxed conversation. Check it out.

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