{"id":263,"date":"2009-01-13T01:30:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T06:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/?p=263"},"modified":"2009-01-13T01:30:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T06:30:45","slug":"beck-covers-dylan-leopard-skin-pill-box-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/2009\/01\/13\/beck-covers-dylan-leopard-skin-pill-box-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Beck Covers Dylan &#8220;Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warchild.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/big%20beck.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>So recent press releases about a new charity project have <a href=\"http:\/\/stereogum.com\/archives\/tv-on-the-radio-hot-chip-beck-show-some-cover-love_045031.html\">hit the webz<\/a>.  We, of course, already knew about it, since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/2008\/09\/22\/leopard-skin-pill-box-hat\/\">last September<\/a>.  But to sum it up, this project had a bunch of superstar legends each personally ask a favorite artist of a younger generation to cover one of their songs.  Bob Dylan asked Beck to do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warchild.org.uk\/heroes\/beck\">&#8220;Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat<\/a>. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m dying to know, did Dylan just call Beck up personally and Beck said &#8220;hell yes, sir!&#8221;  Regardless, Beck and his current main music man Brian Lebarton went into the studio and cooked up a nice bluesy version of the Dylan song, mixing a little electronica into the song too.  Beck than promptly began playing the song live through the fall.<\/p>\n<p><i>Heroes<\/i>, the name of the CD project, goes to support children around the world adversely affected by war, so be sure to buy it on February 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So recent press releases about a new charity project have hit the webz. We, of course, already knew about it, since last September. But to sum it up, this project had a bunch of superstar legends each personally ask a favorite artist of a younger generation to cover one of their songs. Bob Dylan asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,35,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beck","category-brian-lebarton","category-dylan","category-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeyclone.net\/papertiger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}