BOB DYLAN AND THE CLAN - THE DISTILLERY TAPES
Spencer Leigh reports

In January 2007, I asked listeners to my BBC Radio Merseyside programme, On The Beat, to come up with titles for a Bob Dylan album, Highlands 61 Revisited, to celebrate him buying a country pile in Scotland. I was sent over 200 possible titles and my thanks to Chloe Alexander, Dave Donnelly, Andrew Doble, Sue Griffin, Ian Hughes, John Jones, Brian O’Connell and Kevin Toal.

EXCLUSIVE!
BOB DYLAN AND THE CLAN – THE DISTILLERY TAPES

In the wilds of Scotland, Bob Dylan has been recording with a ragged band of legendary musicians including Robbie ‘Burns’ Robertson, Rye McCooder, Aly Kooper and Wee Jimmie Keltner, noted for playing with porridge spurtles instead of drumsticks. Together they have created The Distillery Tapes, a mixture of Jock'n'Roll and Malt Country. The tracks are still shrouded in Highland mystery but they are rumoured to include the following titles:

Loching On Heaven’s Door
I Threw It Stornaway
Red Eyed Lady Of The Highlands
It’s All Over Noo, Rabbie Burns
Hoots Of Spanish Leather
Jock Of Diamonds
Like A Govan Stone
The Tams They Are A-Changin’
All Along The Black Watch Tower
Positively Firth Street
Blowin’ Up My Kilt
If You Gotta Snow, Snow Now
M74 Revisited
The Groom’s Still Waitin’ At The Aultmore
Tryin’ To Get To Hebrides Before They Shut The Port
Lay Lassie Lay
All I Really Want To Skean Dhu
Tangled Up In Bagpipes
Hey, Mr Tam Dayell Man
The Man In The Long Black Kilt
This Sporran’s On Fire
With Rob On Our Side
You’re A Big Jessie Now
Oor Willie McTell
Haggis Farm
Och Ay’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
I Dreamed I Saw St Mirren
The Lonesome Death Of Harry Lauder

Sounds like a great album - maybe he should make it for real!