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Elvis Costello, Jim James, Marcus Mumford Reveal Bob Dylan Cover

08/20/2014
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(Radio.com) What happens when a handful of big names in the music industry decide to take on one of the most important songwriters in history in Bob Dylan? The result is Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes, featuring an all-star cast recording songs written by Dylan in the '60s, and the first taste of such a project arrived yesterday (Aug. 19) with "Nothing to It."

Jim James of My Morning Jacket takes the lead on the song, and even though he and the others on the track are very much modern, he manages to make the song very much retro-sounding, particularly in the chorus.

"I knew I was young enough," he sings. "And I knew there was nothing to it / For I'd already seen it done enough." There's fuzzed-out guitar as well, perhaps either a contribution from James or Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith, from the sound of it.

James and Goldsmith are joined on the song - and the entire album - by Mumford & Sons' Marcus Mumford, Elvis Costello and Carolina Chocolate Drops' Rhiannon Giddens, plus producer T Bone Burnett.

A lyric video released today to accompany the song features Dylan's lyrics strewn throughout an animation of a walking man. Check it out here.

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