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Jessica Rhaye and the Ramshackle Parade Release Video “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”

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Jessica Rhaye and the Ramshackle Parade
Fri Aug 23, 2019
Cashbox Canada

Award-winning Canadian singer/songwriter Jessica Rhaye and The Ramshackle Parade release today “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” — the second single off their forthcoming release, Just Like A Woman - Songs of Bob Dylan. 

“I first heard ‘Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands’ covered by Joan Baez from her 1968 album, Any Day Now,” Rhaye recalls. “I was just a kid and my dad would play it in the old family station wagon. 

“In fact, I didn’t even realize it was Dylan’s song, I just associated it as being Joan Baez’s. 

“When The Ramshackle Parade and I started to collaborate for this record, I knew I wanted to do a version of this track,” she continues. “Joan Baez’s version is more than 11 minutes long and Dylan’s is similar — it actually takes up an entire vinyl side of his Blonde on Blonde album and is five verses long. We knew we needed to trim it back so our version is two verses of the original.” 

They first dabbled with a folkier arrangement but landed on something decidedly more pop in feel. “The first sounded too close to Baez’s, so we took a different approach, breathing new air and a unique feel on a song that Dylan has been quoted as saying it was the best song he ever wrote.” 

The result is a natural fit on a collection of songs each at once retro- yet future-fitted with psychedelic undertones and folkie ballads only Rhaye and The Ramshackle Parade could relay. The nine-track opus lands as engaging and inventive in its interpretations of the Master’s works, each with no click tracks and very few overdubs. The result is an endearingly authentic and rollickingly fun folk-rock reinvention of both Dylan’s classics and hidden gems, quickly transcending the confines of a traditional tribute piece. 

“There is something about Bob Dylan’s songs we connect with,” says Rhaye. “The melodies and his simple ease of delivery… We feel like there’s an invitation like it’s ok to feel they can be our songs.”

And ‘make them theirs,’ they do. 

Dale Murray was the producer at the helm, and it was a free flow. All band members brought ideas to the floor and imagined working in the style of Dylan in Woodstock, the days of the Basement Tapes and Big Pink, in the wake of the motorcycle crash.

“Dylan always approached production with a minimalist hand,” Rhaye continues. “The real people, the noises of the shirt buttons, chairs scraping the floor — mistakes being made — these were allowed to stay in the final tracks rather than cut out on the editing floor. These features always made his work accessible. You could always tell three were real people somewhere in a room playing these tunes together. 

“That’s what we hope listeners take away from this record.”

Just Like A Woman - Songs of Bob Dylan is Rhaye’s sixth full-length release, her second foray into production with Dale and the first with the backing of The Ramshackle Parade. “The music from this band flows naturally but is also derelict, delicate, and pure,” says Rhaye of the ensemble that includes a bevy of award-winning and highly accomplished artists in their own right: Chris Braydon, Sandy MacKay, Clinton Charlton, Bill Preeper, and Dale Murray. The band name is “borrowed and bent from a tune on Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros’ Streetcore album. 

“It felt like a good fit for the sound we came up with while making this record.”

Just Like A Woman - Songs of Bob Dylan Track Listing:

Ring Them Bells
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
As I Went Out One Morning
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
It’s All Over Now Baby Blue
One More Cup of Coffee
I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
Blowin’ In The Wind
Lay Down Your Weary Tune

Tour Dates:
September 21 @ Imperial Theatre, Saint John NB
October 9 @ Charlotte Street Arts Centre, Fredericton NB
October 12 @ The Carleton, Halifax NS
November 1 @ National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage, Ottawa ON
November 2 @ The Cove Inn, Westport ON
November 3 @ Hugh’s Room, Toronto ON
November 5 @ Dog House Studios, Napanee ON
November 8 @ Evergreen Theatre, Margaretsville NS
November 9 @ Astor Theatre, Liverpool NS

Watch “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqvgsB4qVkk

Just Like A Woman - Songs of Bob Dylan is set for release September 20, 2019.

For more visit:http://www.jessicarhaye.com/

 

 

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