As allotment of the Chimes Of Freedom Amnesty International compilation, Rise Against covered Bob Dylan's "The Ballad Of Hollis Brown."
"It was a absolute fun song for us to put together," frontman Tim McIlrath tells Rolling Stone. "It was out of the box for Rise Against."
The authoritative of the song is accurate in this absolute behind-the-scenes video filmed in the band's Fort Collins, Colo., call space. The acquaintance gave McIlrath a new acknowledgment for the track. "When you physically sing anyone else's lyrics, the adventure comes animate somewhat more," he says.
And what did McIlrath apprentice accomplishing the cover? "For me, it was the adventure of Hollis Brown, the adventure of the agriculturalist and his ancestors and the hardships they're traveling through. And aswell how abundantly cadaverous the adventure is – there's no blessed ending," he says. "To sing them as blank as Dylan sang them accept to accept been a claiming in and of itself because the adventure itself is just so absolute and sad and aphotic and macabre."
For Rise Against, it's a accustomed to awning Dylan, one of their antecedents in bridging music and politics. McIlrath hopes this will accommodate a history assignment for adolescent admirers of the band. "We're not afire a trail," he says. "Maybe for some of the adolescent admirers we're the aboriginal bandage they've heard do this, but I anticipate it's emboldening that there are artists like Dylan, like Woody Guthrie, there are even artists like Neil Young. I anticipate that's something important for absolute music admirers to know."
The way McIlrath sees it, all they're aggravating to do is backpack on a tradition. "We're actuality to do what Dylan did for some humans and affect them to yield what they adulation to do and their articulation and to try to analyze some of the world's problems."
Rise Against will be blame off a North American bout on January 17th in Austin, TX.
1/17 Austin, TX – Austin Music Hall*1/18 San Antonio, TX – Illusion Theater*
1/19 New Orleans, LA – House of Blues !
1/21 Orlando, FL – UCF Arena*
1/22 Columbia, SC – Township Auditorium*
1/24 Norfolk, VA – Old Dominion University*
1/26 Kent, OH – Kent State University*
1/27 Chicago, IL – UIC Pavilion*
1/29 State College, PA – Penn State*
1/30 Poughkeepsie, NY – Mid Hudson Civic Center*
2/1 Lowell, MA – Paul E. Tsongas Arena*
2/3 Uniondale, NY – Nassau Coliseum $
2/4 Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center*
2/5 Fairfax, VA – Patriot Center*
4/15 San Diego, CA – Viejas Arena^
4/16 Bakersfield, CA – Rabobank Theater^
4/17 San Jose, CA – Event Center at SJSU^
4/19 Kent, WA – ShoWare Center^
4/20 Boise, ID – Century Link Arena^
4/21 Salt Lake City, UT – Saltair^
4/23 Rio Rancho, NM – Santa Ana Star Center^
4/26 Birmingham, AL – Verizon Wireless Music Center^
4/27 St. Augustine, FL – St. Augustine Amphitheatre^
4/28 Boca Raton, FL – Sunset Grove Amphitheater^
4/30 Tampa, FL – Green Iguana Stadium^
5/1 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade Music Park^
5/2 Charlotte, NC – Time Warner Cable Uptown^
5/4 Indianapolis, IN – The Lawn at White River State Park^
5/5 Cincinnati, OH – PNS Pavilion at Riverbend Music^
5/8 Syracuse, NY – New York State Fairgrounds^
5/10 Toronto, ON – Air Canada Centre^
* = w/A Day To Remember and The Menzingers
! = w/The Menzingers
^ = w/A Day To Remember and Title Fight
$ = w/A Day To Remember, The Menzingers and GLASSJAW
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