Is there a Dylan cover more beautiful than Fairport Convention's 'I'll Keep It With Mine'?

you know its strange, dylan is covered so much, but so few of the versions are as powerful as dylans own, but heres a few suggestions

i quite like yo la tengo's "i threw it all away" which preserves all the simple loveliness of nashville skyline-era dylan with somewhat different instrumentation, i think its about the equal of the original.

also great, theres a will oldham live recording ive heard where he plays new pony from street legal and manages to strip it right down and turn it into something raw, and the song benefits a lot from that.

also, in the "don't look back" film joan baez plays just a little bit of "love is just a four letter word" in a hotel room, and this works out to be far more lovely than her released version of the song (what the fuck is up with the sitar in that??), you just wish the song was complete in "don't look back". she also does a lovely version of percy's song in the same hotel room that is a bit more complete.

I love some of the versions on his live albums when he moves the arrangement, the phrasing, even the lyrics so far from the original as to at least shed a whole new light on the song, at most make it virtually a new item altogether.

Try 'Shelter From The Storm' from Hard Rain, 'Love Minus Zero/No Limit' from Live At The Budokan or oh, I can't think of a suitable one from the recent Rolling Thunder Revue one.

oh and my favorite dyaln rearrangement of a dylan song - "one too many mornings" from live 1966, that robbie robertson guitar solo with the little slide in it that just makes my heart jump, and the "SWEEEETHEAAARTS" belted out by dylan and danko, aw, its one of my favorite things ever

(As in, "a 1,000 miles...BEEE-HIND")

maybe im getting confused, there must be another great song somewhere where some other artist belts out sweetheart, and im gonna spend all afternoon trying to work it out, dammit.

Nina Simone's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"

There are others, but yeah: the Fairports' "I'll Keep It With Mine" is great.

I've never heard the McGuinness, Coulson album of Dylan covers," Lo and Behold." People say it's great--anyone familiar with this?

The two versions of "Knocking on Heaven's Door" on the new Cat Power DVD are like dust bunnies of sound and singing, they are these really, really wispy, formless things. Because the original is so powerful it takes on a weird dynamic that I think is cool.

i agree entirely, although sometimes i think people are inordinately impressed with it simply because it's been put in french. as noted above, my objection (mild) is that i find the arrangement a little too stiff and jaunty. and i always have mixed feelings about sandy denny vocals.

your (positive) description of the cat power cover (which i haven't heard) could so easily be read as negative if it weren't for the phrase "dust bunnies."

O yeah. Though upthread I also was one of those who spoketh their fondness of Fairport C's French language finess, the Byrds' "Back Pages" I just love something rotten.

I have to say that I don't find Nico cold at all. I've only got Chelsea Girls, but there are songs on that that are absolutely, gut-wrenchingly emotional. In a good way. Sort of. If you want your guts wrenched.

I'd have to say her cover of "I'll keep it with mine" - together with MELANIE and her cover of "Mr. Tambourine Man".

I've never seen it mentioned - we are led to believe that the only people in Britain who liked VU were Bowie & Eno etc

i like nico a lot but the fairport "i'll keep it with mine" is the keeper

fairport one is one of the best songs ever

No love for the Turtles' "It Ain't Me Babe"? or the Burritos' "If You Gotta Go..."?

No Julie Driscoll's "This Wheel's on Fire"? No Peter, Paul, & Mary's "Too Much of Nothing"? No NEIL YOUNG??!!??! This thread is broken.

13th Floor Elevators - "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"

I'd like to second Amateurist from waaaay earlier on Elvis' version of "Tomorrow Is A Long Time". It's hazy, the aural equivalent of a mid 80s Penthouse photoshoot, with soft lighting and a quaalude glow. This song is Exhibit #1 for the value of prescription drug abuse by musicians.

ELVIS DOING DON'T THINK TWICE, ferry doing don't think twice, indigo girls(with baez) doing don't think twice, magnet doing lay lady lay.

there's more.

robyn hitchcock's "tryin to get to heaven before they close the door"

<i>No Julie Driscoll's "This Wheel's on Fire"?</i>

^^^no diggity.

sexyd otm.
though the charley d & milo version is "i'll keep it with mine" is awesome too. borrows fairly heavily from the fairport version, i think.

Robyn H kind of owns Not Dark Yet for me.