News that Jim James had recorded an EP of George Harrison covers under the not-so-secret psuedonym “Yim Yames” surfaced back in June. Now the world has the chance to purchase this EP, titled Tribute To, and take a listen to these covers, including “Long, Long, Long,” “Behind That Locked Door,” “Love You To,” “My Sweet Lord,” “Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll),” and “All Things Must Pass.”  Tribute To comes as a limited edition vinyl (available for pre-order now) which includes both CD and a Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary t-shirt.  But for the less fancy of you out there, the album is also available for digital download on the Yim Yames website and in stores as of yesterday.

Have a listen:

My Morning Jacket’s Jim James will be releasing an EP of George Harrison covers called Tribute To on ATO Records August 4th. The songs listed below, three solo from All Things Must Pass and two Harrison-penned Beatles songs, were recorded shortly after the late great songwriter passed in 2001. Yames/James’ versions will apparently be low-key, acoustic and, we’re sure, good for sparking some incense and reciting mantras.
Tribute To Tracklist:
1.) Long Long Long
2.) Behind That Locked Door
3.) Love You To
4.) My Sweet Lord
5.) Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)
6.) All Things Must Pass

Fab Four fans, brace yourselves. Soon you will be able pretend to be John, Paul, George or Ringo not only from the safety of your own home, but with shocking graphics-induced realism, courtesy of the upcoming Rock Band: The Beatles game. The video game officially received a due date today, the unavoidably cute 09-09-09.

Plans for the game were announced late last year by Apple Corps Ltd. (the Beatles’ licensing company), MTV Games and Harmonix. We don’t yet know what songs will be included in the game, but Apple Corps CEO Jeff Jones said that the breadth of material would be career-spanning, stretching from Please Please Me to Abbey Road.

What we do know is that there’s a web site with nothing on it but that dramatic release date, 09.09.09, and a sort of poorly animated recording studio. Plus some corporate logos, obviously.

The game was designed and conceived with input from Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison. Rock Band-ites who buy the game will also have the chance to buy “a limited number of new hardware offerings modeled after instruments used by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr throughout their career.” Because your current fake plastic guitar and fake plastic drums, it seems, will not be as good as these extra-super-special fake plastic guitars and drums.