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White has been one of a number of musicians approached by Dylan to work on completed lyrics and music for the songs, with other artists involved now revealed to include Lucinda Williams and Willie Nelson.
White has now recorded a now ‘finished’ version of the incomplete Williams song “You Know That I Know” at Nashville’s Blackbird Studios, with engineer Joe Chiccarelli.
Speaking to MTV News, White stated: "[Bob] came upon, somehow, 20-25 unfinished songs by Hank Williams, just the lyrics, no music, and he started to ask people if they would finish these songs.
“He did one, asked Willie Nelson to do one, asked me to do one, and I think Lucinda Williams and Alan Jackson are on it too. I think it might come out this year. It's a cool record.”
As previously reported, Jack White appeared with Dylan last September, when Bob played a two-night stint at Nashville’s Ryman Theatre. On the first night they performed together on the first ever live version of “Meet Me In The Morning” from Blood On The Tracks.
The following night, they gave a first live outing to “Outlaw Blues” and duetted on “One More Cup Of Coffee” from Desire, getting its first live airing since 1993.
You can see Bob Dylan and Jack White perform together at the Ryman Theatre by clicking here.
The new edition of "Uncut", out now, includes a main feature story on Dylan circa 1968 which was the period where his country roots first came to real prominance.
In addition there is a superb free CD with many tracks which were key influences on the young Mr Dylan, many were aired during his superb run of radio broadcasts during the last couple of years.
Below are three of my favourites together with the appropriate text from the magazine highlighting the reason for their inclusion.
"Sitting in Woodstock writing the songs for "John Wesley Harding" Dylan regulary read the Old Testament and the Hank Williams songbook he is quoted as saying " I became aware that in Hank's recorded songs were the archetype rules of poetic songwriting" "
"By the late 60's Sun Records legend Perkins was a member of Johnny Cash's touring band which is how he came to play guitar on Nashville Skyline's "Girl From The North Country". Dylan had considered recording "Matchbox" at sessions with George Harrison in 1970 but did sing it with Perkins on stage in 1994"
"Dylan once claimed that he'd never felt at home with the New York folk scene and that his true heart lay in a Texas honky tonk listening to Hank Thompson. It was only after the release of Nashville Skyline that people actually began to believe him. This 1952 hit was also a big favourite of Gram Parsons"
