In honor of the 40th anniversary of the release of the Beatles` legendary album Rubber Soul, Razor & Tie Entertainment is proud to announce This Bird Has Flown: A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles` Rubber Soul. The 14-track album mirrors the sequencing of the original UK release of Rubber Soul. This Bird Has Flown features some of today`s hottest artists, including Sufjan Stevens, the Fiery Furnaces, Ben Harper, Dar Williams, the Donnas, Rhett Miller, Ted Leo, Nellie McKay, Cowboy Junkies, Sufjan Stevens and more. The album is produced by Jim Sampas (producer of 2002`s Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen`s Nebraska). On choosing the lineup of artists on the record, Sampas stated, "As we looked toward artists we would approach, we felt they should be kindred spirits, whose gifts for singing and arranging lend themselves to these melodies and themes. Each artist on this album brought their own fascinating interpretations and have extracted new meanings from Rubber Soul." Originally released in the United Kingdom on December 6, 1965, the George Martin-produced Rubber Soul is considered to be an extraordinarily important album in the Beatles` catalogue, the first flowering of the complex songwriting and production techniques of their later releases. The album features the now-ubiquitous songs "Nowhere Man," "Drive My Car," "Michelle," and "In My Life," among others. It held the #1 position on the British album charts for eight weeks and remained on the chart for a total of forty-two weeks. In 1966, "Michelle" won John Lennon and Paul McCartney the Grammy for Song of the Year. To date, Rubber Soul has been certified 6x platinum. "3 1/2 stars.. ndelibly catchy, but also one of the first albums to expand rock & roll`s Fifties and early-Sixties confines, the Beatles` Rubber Soul turns forty in December. This tribute album celebrates that milestone by gathering together fourteen alternative pop, folk and rock acts contributing respectful, but irreverent, covers sequenced to duplicate the original U.K. album`s track listing. Given the material`s familiarity, the most radical revisions here reap the greatest rewards. The Fiery Furnaces psychedelicize "Norwegian Wood" with heaps of echo and foreboding organ, while Ted Leo turns "I`m Looking Through You" into dubby New Wave and Nellie McKay spins "If I Needed Someone" into slinky bossa nova. Changing chords, rewriting melody, overhauling rhythms and resequencing large chunks of lyrics, the ever-ambitious Sufjan Stevens turns "What Goes On" inside out with an intricate stop-and-start arrangement that affirms Rubber Soul`s elastic strength."-ROllingStone.
 The Donnas - Drive My Car - mp3
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