According to Pop & Hiss, a Los Angeles Times blog, Bob Dylan will be joined on stage by The Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons to perform a song from each of their catalogs in “a special salute to acoustic music” at this year’s Grammy’s. The bands have their similarities in both style and sound. Additionally, Dylan, considered the pioneer of folk rock, was a huge influence on both bands and I am sure that this will be career highlights for them. .

They will start out playing Mumford & Sons’ “The Cave” and then follow it up with The Avett Brothers’ “Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise” and will end with a Dylan song but they haven’t announced which one yet. What Dylan song do you think that the three will decide to play together? There are quite a few to pick from so the odds aren’t in anyone’s favor but I have the feeling that they will be playing one of his classics like “Tangled Up in Blue” or “Like a Rolling Stone” because I just don’t see them getting too crazy on stage since Dylan is almost ten years away from becoming an octogenarian.

I wish they would toss Neil Young up in the mix to make it one of the best musical suites to ever play at the Grammy’s.

Here is Mumford & Sons’ music video for “The Cave”:

Here is The Avett Brothers’ music video for “Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise”:

Over here at NAM we love Americana. We’ve also got a real soft spot for minor league baseball so we were pretty excited to hear that 3 of American music’s living legends are combining for a must see summer tour. For a couple months this summer Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and John Mellencamp will be touring the country playing minor league ballparks from Pennsylvania to California. “Ain’t that America…”

Tour dates are as follows:
7/15 New Britain, CT at New Britain Stadium
7/19 Syracuse, NY at Alliance Bank Stadium
7/21 Pawtucket, RI at McCoy Stadium
7/23 Lakewood, NJ at FirstEnergy Park
7/24 Aberdeen, MD at Ripken Stadium
7/25 Norfolk, VA at Harbor Park
7/28 Durham, NC at Durham Bulls Athletic Park
7/29 Sevierville, TN at Smokies Park
8/4 Round Rock, TX at The Dell Diamond
8/5 Corpus Christi, TX at Whataburger Field
8/7 Grand Prairie, TX at QuikTrip Park
8/11 Glendale, AZ at Camelback Ranch
8/12 Las Vegas, NV at Cashman Field
8/14 Fresno, CA at Chukchansi Park
8/15 Stockton, CA at Banner Island Ballpark

Proving that he’s no Communist, Rolling Stone writer D.X. Farris says he enjoyed what he heard. Check out his review here.

There’s stuff I want all the time that I can’t buy. One such thing is this sick Bob Dylan poster from Jetset Graffiti (via OMG Posters, natch). That’s because it’s a whopping $200; not that it’s necessarily overpriced, per se, it’s just that I usually put a $50 cap on my “poster budget” in terms of per poster. But hey, if you’ve got some extra cash hanging around, I highly recommend hitting this up.

Fortunately, Bob Dylan has a new video out. It was directed by Nash Edgerton and features Amanda Aardsma and Joel Stoffer. The video is intense in a dark and sordid kind of way. Unfortunately, there’s no embed code, which means you need to go visit the IFC.com site in order to see it. Which, of course, is highly recommend because Dylan is the man. This song is  sexy as hell and destined for a Cohen Brothers soundtrack.

Via Stereogum