Charlie Daniels is releasing his first new album since 2007, and it will be titled Off The Grid – Doin’ It Dylan, an album of Daniels covering Bob Dylan songs! The album is due out April 1st.
“It was about 50 years ago when I first became aware of Bob Dylan—and no, I was not naïve enough to think I could swim in the same stream, try to emulate what he had done, or cop his licks. Nobody could do that,” notes Daniels. “My ambitions were to provoke some thought, to color the imagery of my songs, to think outside the box of conformity—in other words to be myself.”
Here is the track listing:
- Tangled Up In Blue
- Times They Are a Changin’
- I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
- Gotta Serve Somebody
- I Shall Be Released
- Country Pie
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Hard Rains A Gonna Fall
- Just Like A Woman
- Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
“Whatever it was Bob Dylan meant by his lyrics, they grabbed the attention of the world and changed the face of music forever,” notes Charlie. “He inspired musicians to knock down the restrictive, bubble gum, three minute a side, Tin Pan Alley world that set the parameters of popular music and turn their creative minds loose in a thousand new directions.”