The Recording Academy has called Bob Dylan as its MusiCares Person of the Year for 2015. The affecting singer-songwriter will be accustomed at a appropriate commemoration two canicule afore the Grammys on February 6th.
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As with Carole King's commemoration earlier this year, a advanced arrangement of accepted artists will account Dylan with performances. Beck, the Black Keys, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Norah Jones, Tom Jones, Los Lobos, John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Eddie Vedder, Jack White, Neil Young and John Doe are all slated to appear. Don Was will serve as the evening's agreeable administrator and added performers accept yet to be announced.
Dylan will be the 25th almsman of the accolade from the organization, which provides abetment to musicians and music-industry humans in times of need, whether a person's emergencies are of a financial, medical or claimed nature.
"In adulatory the 25th ceremony of our MusiCares Person of the Year tribute, it is a lot of applicable that we are anniversary Bob Dylan, whose physique of artistic plan has contributed to America's culture, as able-bodied as that of the absolute world, in absolutely abysmal and abiding ways," Neil Portnow, President and CEO of the MusiCares Foundation and The Recording Academy, said in a statement.
"Bob Dylan's songwriting adeptness is unmatched, and it will be an amazing black to apprehend his plan showcased by such a arresting accumulation of artists," Bill Silva, Chair of the MusiCares Foundation Board, aswell said.
Previous MusiCares Person of the Year recipients over the accomplished 10 years awning Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Barbra Streisand, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Aretha Franklin, Don Henley, James Taylor, Brian Wilson and Sting.
Prior to the MusiCares gala, Dylan will be touring the U.S. on a 31-date abatement tour. Additionally, Dylan's awning of the Beatles' "Things We Said Today" will appear out on the Paul McCartney accolade album The Art of McCartney on November 18th.
Dylan is aswell arising The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11, which collects all 138 advance he recorded during his allegorical sessions with the Band in 1967, and a accumulating of lyrics he wrote but didn't address music for in those aforementioned sessions will appear out as Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes. A aggregate of musicians, including Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford, My Morning Jacket's Jim James and even Johnny Depp added music to the lyrics for the record, which is due out November 11th.
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