After two dozen lyrics from Bob Dylan‘s Basement Tapes golden era surfaced, a handful of musicians — My Morning Jacket‘s Jim James, Elvis Costello, Mumford and Sons‘ Marcus Mumford, to name a few — decided to create music for them, with Dylan’s approval.
The project, dubbed Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes — which will culminate with a studio album and a Showtime documentary about the making of the album — doesn’t arrive until later this year, but today brings the second taste of it.
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After sharing “Nothing to It,” the collective, also including Dawes‘ Taylor Goldsmith, Carolina Chocolate Drops‘ Rhiannon Giddens and producer T-Bone Burnett, have released “Married to My Hack.” The Costello-led track comes with a grainy, vintage-looking cartoon lyric video.
The almost two-minute track is a reflection on and praise of marriage, accompanied by bluesy guitar riffs.
