Essential Bob Dylan Covers?

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I just got done listening to a god-awful album of Dylan covers by acoustic guitar artists. Please remind me why artists should still cover Dylan.

My contributions:

Yo La Tengo “I Threw it All Away”
Jerry Garcia "Simple Twist of Fate"
Jeff Buckley "Farewell Angelina"

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

Bryan Ferry: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

We've done this one repeatedly:

Is there a Dylan cover more beautiful than Fairport Convention's 'I'll Keep It With Mine'?
Is there a Dylan cover more kickass than Poster Children's "Isis"?
OPO: Bob Dylan cover

Today, Johnny Jenkins' "Down Along the Cove" is totally doing it for me.

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

the simple machines cover of girl of the north country is not essential. just thought i'd throw that out there.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

you know what, that entire album of dylan covers that the hollies did is not essential.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

the four seasons as the wonder whos doing don't think twice though? Maybe the most essential of them all.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

strange douglas, i actually did a search for 'bob dylan cover' and didn't see those.

:: Lock Thread ::

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Nina Simone's _Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues_.

― t. fiend (t. fiend), Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

See, I actually don't like NSimone's cover of that.

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Saturday, 6 August 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, T. Fiend for mentioning that Simone tune - one of my favorite songs ever.

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Saturday, 6 August 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

I heard that one on WFMU a couple of days ago — I thought it was odd more than good. My favorite is the first one Suzy mentioned, YLT's "I Threw It All Away."

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 6 August 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue by Thirteenth Floor Elevators!

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Saturday, 6 August 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

transvision vamp covered "crawl out your window".
i liked the original but prefer the cover.
hear a sample:
http://www.mp3.com/albums/16369/summary.html

― jendy wames, Saturday, 6 August 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

Fairport Convention "I'll keep it with mine"

― CL, Saturday, 6 August 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I've ever heard Dylan's version of "If Not For You", but George Harrison's is great.

― The Yellow Kid, Saturday, 6 August 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

Cat Power's cover of "Moonshiner" is probably the worst Dylan covers, and of one of his best songs. Weirdly, I actually like Cat Power, as much as I like any 90s indie rock. But that cover--awful.

That said, my cover of "Boots of Spanish Leather" might also rank amongst the worst.

― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 6 August 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I've ever heard Dylan's version of "If Not For You", but George Harrison's is great.

-- The Yellow Kid (ano...), August 6th, 2005.
george is the best , olivia newton johns version is horrid and should be avoided.

― jendy wames, Saturday, 6 August 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

no way, olivia's is great! way better guitar than george's version.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 August 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

I've always loved Fairport Convention's "Si Tu Dois Partir" (French-language take on "If You've Gotta Go, Go Now"), complete with smashing windows.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Saturday, 6 August 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

― DJMonsterMo, Saturday, 6 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

The new issue of Uncut has a covermount CD called Highway 61 Revisited - Revisited (geddit) wherein people like The Handsome Family and Willard Grant Conspiracy tackle the whole album. Not heard it yet, but vaguely curious about it. (I just wish they'd do it with albums that're more important to me - y'know, Different Class - Reclassed or The Soft Bulletin - Recalibrated.)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 6 August 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue by Thirteenth Floor Elevators!

like don't love their version - do love the Chocolate Watch Band's

― jared66, Saturday, 6 August 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

I thought Van Morrison wrote that? *ducks*

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 6 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Neko Case -- Buckets of Rain

― The Original Jimmy Mod: A Negro (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 6 August 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

How can anyone not love Falco's version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"?

― Erik The Mainer (EZSnappin), Saturday, 6 August 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

I love that Cat Power version of "Moonshiner"!

...the vagaries of tastes, blah, blah...

― David A. (Davant), Saturday, 6 August 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

I guess in a way that I'd never really acknowledge, covering a song called "Moonshiner" in a drunken half-assed stupor is actually appropriate. Dylan sounds a little earnest/sober/religious, perhaps. But from a purely musical standpoint, just seems an odd choice for her to half-ass it (and change the gender) and have a breakdown-stop---this from a white girl who manages a reasonably emotive cover of "Wild is the Wind".

― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 6 August 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Neil Young's version of "Forever Young" rules...

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Sunday, 7 August 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

jimmy mod otm

― Sym Sym (sym), Sunday, 7 August 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

gorgeous one .... magnet ft. gemma hayes "lay lady lay"

― Whittier Labs, Sunday, 7 August 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

(I know I've mentioned this on some other thread, but...)

Ben Watt doing "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go"

Twee as fuck, but gets me where I live.

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Sunday, 7 August 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

"The new issue of Uncut has a covermount CD called Highway 61 Revisited - Revisited (geddit) wherein people like The Handsome Family and Willard Grant Conspiracy tackle the whole album."

As if you didn't already know, Mojo has a CD with.... well you get the picture.

― Window Crawler, Sunday, 14 August 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Lo & Behold is a really good (not get essentialist!) album of Dylan covers, by Coulson--and a bunch of other people who should have called themselves something short (if you're old enough to remember this album, you won't) Only thing is, on the title track's chorus, Coulson goes up into blackboard falsetto by end of chorus: "myeee dear maaan": I know, it's tribute to that Four Seasons Dylan cover Skot loves, and an influence on "myee myee myeee Sharona," but he does it every damn time he sings the chorus. but (Dean) Coulson is otherwise good, like Paul Rodgers but not solemn, and he and the ohters (Mcguinness, Flint, um?) keep it from getting too tasteful or too ragged. (Anybody who likes Fairport, Van Morrison, Elevators, for that matter, covering Dyl would probably like this.)truly essential, Dylan covers o.p.s. on the unissued Basement Tapes: sings the shit out of "Big River," "Still In Town," "Young But Daily Growing," and several Ian Tyson songs, although "Four Strong Winds" uh-uh. If he seems to be gushing over stuff like this in Chronicles, and he does, here I can hear what he heard in it. Dylan covers of Dylan (creeping up before it sees him first) incl. a lot of stuff(most of it) on The Endless Tour. Including that rise and fall and rise and(after "the wind began to howl") version of "Watchtower" I saw him do ca. '92.Which blows away Jimi's version, and Dylan and the Band too, but I still like Hendrix jiving,kidding, celebrating"Like A Rolling Stone" at Monterey.That Kentucky Headhunters album of covers was erratic, like Frank said in Voice, but they really rise with the tide of "Like A Rolling Stone", and somehow "Chug-A-Lug" follows it perfectly (but that's another matter).

― don, Sunday, 14 August 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

Any of the Fairport Dylan covers on Unhalfbricking is great. THeir Million Dollar Bash is fun, if a little polite, but their Percy's Song is superb.

Emmylou Harris - Every Grain of Sand (the best version without a doubt)
I'll second Neko Case's Buckets Of Rain. Wish she'd release that officially.

― Stew (stew s), Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

Anybody heard that group, Jewels And Binoculars, doing jazz covers of Dylan, on a couple of albums Tom Hull approved in Voice?(He didn't describe them much.)

― don, Sunday, 14 August 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

that ky. headhunters album...has anyone actually *listened* to it?? like maybe to the "drumming" and "bass playing"...? just wondering...

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 14 August 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

I know I mentioned Rick Nelson's cover of She Belongs To Me on one of those other threads and will stand by that. But I'd also add The Turtles - It An't Me Babe.

Of Course Jimi's Watchtower rules, but I enjoy the original equally. Somewhere I have a mix tape with the two back to back.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 15 August 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

I wonder how well the Electric Ladyland version would mash up with the Before the Flood version.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Monday, 15 August 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

Just heard Bill Frisell's "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and that's the only way I want to hear that song again.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Monday, 15 August 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'd like to hear that.Thing about the mobius strip self-cover I heard, the riders kept screwing with the watchers; no howling mercy kill ("Can't get no relief," indeed--the scariest version by far) Would like to hear the Bill. Also like: Elvis, "Tomorrow Is A Long Time", and "Don't Think Twice," with session cats goin'down the road a piece; Bonnie Raitt, "Let's Keep It Between Us"; Lou Reed, "Foot Of Pride", on the 30th Anniversary Concert video. (Looked like he had about five pages of lyrics, but no prob.) Stevie Wonder's "Blowin' In The Wind" might be good; hard to tell, when distracted by loud, groaning bass voice nearby (on the record, not elsewhere in my room, I hope)

― don, Monday, 15 August 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

So I just got the MOJO comp and am enjoying it but have nothing to say about it. What about the rest of you that have had it for a month?

I don't think I've ever heard Dylan's version of "If Not For You", but George Harrison's is great.
-- The Yellow Kid (ano...), August 6th, 2005.
george is the best , olivia newton johns version is horrid and should be avoided.

-- jendy wames (jend...), August 6th, 2005 2:27 AM. (link)

I'll agree with that.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Jason and the Scorchers version of Absolutely Sweet Marie.
And the Byrds version of My Back Pages and You ain't Going Nowhere and maybe Wheels on Fire, that’s a weird one. Also Robyn Hitchcock did an entire record’s worth. I don't have it but I seem to remember hearing Buckets of Rain and liking it

― dan. (dan.), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

The Mojo comp was let down by too many Adult Contemporaryisms, but the Hugh Cornwell track is alright.

I'll stand by Mark Arm's "Masters of War" 7" (released the day the Gulf War I started)

― Old School (sexyDancer), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that Hugh Cornwall version of "Stuck Inside of Mobile" is one of the better things on there. It's also the end of the best run of tracks, being after The Hollies' "My Back Pages" and Nancy Sinatra's "It Ain't Me Babe."

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Cornwell

The bass playing on that is really good, is that his regular guy, Steve something?

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

I'm hooked on Solomon Burke's "Maggie's Farm" and Phil Flowers's "Like A Rolling Stone" right now... the only other one I can think of off-hand right now is Stevie's "Blowin' In The Wind", which doesn't blow me away as much but then I'm kind of sick of the song itself.

Can anyone recommend any others, especially pre-funk '60's stomping soul stuff?

― Brio, Sunday, 13 September 2009 15:29 (sixteen years ago)

sorry - didn't meant to post twice - if a mod cares to delete this last post or the other thread, please do whatever's easy for you. or not. thanks.

― Brio, Sunday, 13 September 2009 15:34 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvKyBcCDOB4
this song has such a weird history -- a fragment that dylan forgot instantly, only ever appeared on bootlegs, is now a hit country song by the dude from hootie.

― tylerw, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:40 (thirteen years ago)

also i did not know they made videos like this anymore -- this is going to be played all the time on vh1 circa 1996!

― tylerw, Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:43 (thirteen years ago)

uh if I'm not wrong that dude is hootie

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 26 May 2013 21:43 (thirteen years ago)

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Nanci Griffith's Boots of Spanish Leather is probably my favourite.

https://youtu.be/ZhKamjavG04

― A. Begrand, Sunday, 8 July 2018 21:35 (seven years ago)

Can't wait to spend some serious time checking out these recommendations.

Meanwhile, the 16 Horsepower cover of Nobody 'Cept You from Bootleg series is well worht your time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUAkIxja6uY

― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 8 July 2018 21:36 (seven years ago)

Love the country take of “don’t think twice” by Boby Bare:

https://youtu.be/QnAR7FAQ_cA

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 9 July 2018 01:53 (seven years ago)

Also check the finale rave-up of "Tombstone Blues" on Live From Central Park, by Sheryl Crow & Friends, who on various tracks incl. Keith Richards, Chrissie Hynde, Stevie Nicks, Clapton, Dixie Chicks---Chicks are def aboard this one, think Keef too; what I remember best is Natalie Maines' vicious Texas accent, bitin' them verses.

― dow, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 23:43 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

today's WFMU show of all female-singer covers

https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/92890

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 21:13 (six years ago)

Thanks for this, sooo much! Current Fave rave: Marianne Faithfull's "Visions of Johanna." Oh that xpost Bettye LaVette album turned out to be excellent: she chops and channels "Times They Are A-Changin'{ to suit her groove, off-handed, also plunges fearlessly in to thickets of much later material. Fairport Convention and Friends' A Tree With Roots is pretty much all their Dylan covers, 'til the next reunion, anyway.

― dow, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:26 (six years ago)

Nina Simone's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" might be my favourite cover of anything ever.

― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:27 (six years ago)

an all-lay lady lay set! this is what i need today for sure

"rich kid blues" is _the_ marianne faithfull record for me, i think i ran into it through beware of the blog back when that was a going thing and it's, whew.

― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 29 April 2020 18:18 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbrIPTNzEBA

― mandarax, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 20:55 (six years ago)

one year passes...

For his 80th: 80 different Dylan songs by 80 different artists. (I see Rolling Stone did something similar but I made this before I saw that. A fair amount of overlap, but a bunch that aren't.)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2VMqOf2ODyYtFqDO8gZGiN?si=6e433ab69c6a43fc

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 24 May 2021 13:54 (five years ago)

thanks, tipsy!

In related news: Chrissie Hynde's Dylan covers album is unexpectedly excellent. For once an artist eschews the war horses.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 May 2021 14:33 (five years ago)

Oh, I need to get on that. You're right, that's a good selection of tracks.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 24 May 2021 15:39 (five years ago)

I quite liked Yo La Tengo’s “It Takes a lot to Laugh” cover, I had downloaded it 15 years ago and I think they just officially released it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvel4jtV4_8

― JoeStork, Monday, 24 May 2021 17:06 (five years ago)

I agree, in theory, about the unconventional selections on the Chrissie Hynde record, but I'm just not that big a fan of this particular selection of post-70s Dylan tracks. The "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" cover is gorgeous, though.

The Cover Me blog is doing a whole bunch of Dylan covers stuff right now, so there's my soundtrack for today.

100 Best Dylan covers: https://www.covermesongs.com/2021/05/the-100-best-bob-dylan-covers-ever.html
20 Best Dylan cover albums: https://www.covermesongs.com/2021/05/cover-classics-bob-dylan-tribute-albums.html

― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Monday, 24 May 2021 17:35 (five years ago)

Jerry Lee, "Rita May"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r-La50P_iQ

― dow, Monday, 24 May 2021 17:57 (five years ago)

There's also a wild live version of this somewhere:

JLL: "Stepchild"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSboLWm5mA0

― dow, Monday, 24 May 2021 18:02 (five years ago)

Link Wray's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" from Bullshot. Play it loud.

― Leftee, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 04:09 (five years ago)

Graham Bonnet’s 1977 cover of “It’s All Over Now Baby Blue” is crucial and key

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSBDlsTyT60

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 04:49 (five years ago)

I've posted this in another thread before so apologies for the repeat, but O'Connor's "I Believe in You" is stunning - I never cared for that song until I heard her version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlkeZqHmxlk

― birdistheword, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 14:25 (five years ago)

I can announce that Chrissie Hynde's new cover of "Blind Willie McTell" is all-time.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 14:30 (five years ago)

I don't know the Dylan original, but her version of Sweetheart Like You has immediately brought me to tears. I'm only four tracks into the album but this is astonishing.

― Alba, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 14:59 (five years ago)

here's a mix I put together a few weeks back — pretty fun stuff: https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/05/04/strike-another-match-dylan-translated

― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 15:00 (five years ago)

Really like the Emma Swift covers that were high up on the Cover Me list

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejmLQiMMRVA

― that's not my post, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 15:06 (five years ago)

otm Alfred:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GJoGTsHWDg

― birdistheword, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 15:13 (five years ago)

Not exactly covers related, but here are 86 artists talking about their favorite Dylan song: https://www.stereogum.com/2147461/favorite-bob-dylan-songs/lists/ultimate-playlist/

― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 19:27 (five years ago)

Chris Whitley and Jeff Lang's version of "Changing of the Guard" is well worth searching out, it is quite beautiful and dreamy.

Mentioned once in the thread, but worth repeating that Nazareth id "Hollis Brown" as proto-doom metal circa 1974.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 21:27 (five years ago)

I really like Patti Smith's "Changing of the Guards" where she eliminates every gram of cheese. It's a quieter, stripped down arrangement, and transposing the sax part to the piano is a massive improvement.

― birdistheword, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 02:34 (five years ago)

Forgot the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrZ9LABs-Co

― birdistheword, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 02:34 (five years ago)

Yeah that's my favorite version of "Changing of the Guards."

I only recently learned Duane Eddy did an album of Dylan covers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxLSntYt8ts

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 03:57 (five years ago)

I still haven’t heard a cover of “it’s all over now baby blue” that I didn’t like but the 13th floor elevators one is as perfect as they come.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 04:14 (five years ago)

Shooter Jennings has a great cover of “Isis”
Live version only, though I’d love to hear him do a studio version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s90aw9cybvw

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 04:17 (five years ago)

Anyone else into this proto-slowcore/dream pop version of Like a Rolling Stone by Spirit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWCxAElOSxM

― aqxmission, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 15:33 (five years ago)

Xxp

To this day I still can’t believe they didn’t play that song in Breaking Bad finale

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 17:41 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVgludGcI5I

― xzanfar, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 18:37 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npeYMJIbY8o

― xzanfar, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 18:38 (five years ago)

three weeks pass...

Thanks guys, several here lately that I never hoid of!
Yeah, Chrissie Hynde's rainy day country-folk conversations keep me listening, nursing a drink and memories and not bogarting that joint because it's all sides of the online, passing tracks back and forth with her Pretenders guitarist and their listeners, good for strumming and keys---seems like a little more variety might be good, but maybe would mess with the intimacy.
But also---I just first listened to Lucinda Williams' Bob's Back Pages: A Night of Bob Dylan Songs, which is a lot to take in, quality and quantity and range and depth (of dug-in heels, writing and choice-wise), but clearly she's wide awake all night, no slurs, lots of teeth, with her hot crusty railroad combo from Good Souls Better Angels, I think (it's a download, so no fancy info). The theme, one of the recurring themes, is restless frustration---"I look like I'm movin', but I'm standin' still," but never shut up. The dread "To Make You Feel My Love" is the ringer, and closer, but works (and follows "Idiot Wind"), by far the best version I've heard, of which there have of course been a shitload. "Everything's Broken," "Political World," and "Man of Peace" make one ornery triptych early on. "Queen Jane Approximately"is drinking wedding band folk punk change of pace, nice. Was going to pick some from YouTube, but can't decide.

― dow, Friday, 18 June 2021 23:52 (four years ago)

This cover of Sign On The Window by Sarah Jarosz is absolutely stunning. I'd never heard of her until I saw this but it seems that as well as doing her own material she does tons of covers, including unusual choices like Prince and Billie Eilish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h73qzaGalZg

― Officer Pupp, Saturday, 19 June 2021 10:03 (four years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJpeaw6mP1c

― buzza, Saturday, 19 June 2021 10:27 (four years ago)

five months pass...

Magnificent «Changing of the Guards» by Norwegian Signe Marie Rustad, from a Dylan tribute on Norwegian national TV this fall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_BgSyU5G1w

― Mule, Sunday, 5 December 2021 12:03 (four years ago)

one year passes...

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3SSIf-i_SM

― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Sunday, 11 June 2023 17:39 (two years ago)

I mean, god bless him for leaning into the smooth and jivey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCZFMWXuGCU

― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Sunday, 11 June 2023 17:47 (two years ago)

I don't think I've ever heard Dylan's version of "If Not For You", but George Harrison's is great.
-- The Yellow Kid (ano...), August 6th, 2005.
george is the best , olivia newton johns version is horrid and should be avoided.
― jendy wames, Saturday, 6 August 2005 05:27 (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I prefer Glen Campbell's version of George Harrison's version tbh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBiMU7EBSFI

― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Monday, 12 June 2023 06:43 (two years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFcNnwlKAHk

― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Monday, 12 June 2023 18:12 (two years ago)

Johnny Winter did a ripping version of Highway 61 with some sharp slide guitar.

― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 13:31 (two years ago)

birdistheword otm upthread. Sinead O'Connor's version of "I Believe in You" is gorgeous.

― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:22 (two years ago)

two years pass...

For the 80th anniversary of nuclear bombs, the Kronos Quartet did Hard Rain with many others singing on it, plus a drone/spoken word version: https://redhot.bandcamp.com/album/kronos-quartet-the-hard-rain-collective-ep

― BrianB, Wednesday, 16 July 2025 16:17 (ten months ago)

eight months pass...

How the hell have I never heard Leon Russell’s version of Hollis Brown?!? Completely demented. Like some proto “Me and the Devil” by Gil Scott-Heron

― Heez, Thursday, 26 March 2026 05:22 (two months ago)

Thanks! Do you know Nazareth's rendered rendition? Dylan songs need more such screechy vox.

― dow, Thursday, 26 March 2026 22:54 (two months ago)

Nazareth invents doom metal on that one

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 26 March 2026 22:55 (two months ago)

Und mit heavy fuzz guitar:
http://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=Nazareth+Hollis+Brown&&mid=A3E1EE75B86001379B53A3E1EE75B86001379B53&FORM=VRDGAR

― dow, Thursday, 26 March 2026 23:01 (two months ago)

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