Rolling Stone has a great tribute this month to Bob Dylan. Dylan celebrates his 70th birthday tomorrow.
This one is simple.
What is your favorite Dylan cover, or covers?
My first will always be Joan Baez’s cover of It Ain’t Me Babe.
Next, I Shall Be Released has many great covers from The Band and Joe Cocker, to Nina Simone — too many to choose. Though this video of Joni Mitchell, Mary Travers (Peter Paul and Mary), and MaMa Cass, singing it on television in 1969 is pretty spectacular. Still, I’m going with Peter Paul and Mary’s cover of Don’t Think Twice.
Peter Paul and Mary’s Don’t Think Twice:
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Addendum:
My Back Pages by The Byrds comes in second actually. How could I forget. Either way I remembered it over a late morning coffee.
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Without a doubt, Jimi Hendrix’ cover of All along the Watchtower. My pick for the dark horse cover is Antony & the Johnson’s Knockin ‘ on Heaven’s Door.
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Great choices. I just looked it up the Anthony and the Johnson’s version….
Anthony and the Johnson’s cover of Knocking on Heaven’s Door
It was a hard call not to choose Hendrix’s Watchtower.
I’m still listening to a lot of covers that people are sending me
Billy, Hendrix’ All Along The Watchtower was my pick, too. Van Morrison’s It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue is a pretty good’un.
Here is he link to Van Morrison’s cover.
Van Morrision’s cover It’s All Over Now Baby Blue
I’d pick Hendrix All Along the Watchtower too and The Dead’s cover of She Belongs To Me.
This was short notice I’m at work, maybe I’ll come up with something else later.
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Thank’s for posting a link. I’m tired for having to do all the work for those guys above you, and while working yet. ;)
Nice cover.
I remember now, both Rage and The Specials had versions of Maggie’s Farm, maybe not the best covers, but different.
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yes, I remember them to old poser ska people we were
Then there’s George Harrison’s cover of If Not For You.
then there is the version with both Dylan and Harrison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tctzUNMp5po
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Thanks for that Jacob, that’s a brilliant cover and the duo vid is great as well.
All Along the Watchtower baby!!!
Another one.
I like all the choices but went searching and found Norah Jones – “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” pretty good, and here is a Link to Chapman’s cover of The Times They Are a Changing, I love this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnxUQf4eeOg
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I love both those women. Great covers.
Chapman I love anyway, no matter what she sings.
I have to go find a list because I’m don’t know if I’d know covers. For instance I never knew “I Shall Be Released” was a Dylan song. Great 0ld video that was.
Hendrix’ Watchtower comes to mind naturally, it was powerful good.
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Watchtower seems to be the winner so far.
I Shall Be Released, Chrissie Hynde and Ani Di Franco, Hurricane. Both good renditions.
I don’t typically listen to Dylan, but I love a lot of the female covers.
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yea those are great covers, good choices Kait.
I just came across these covers and thought I’d post them for you.
Elliott Murphy – Blind Willie McTell
Everly Bros, Abandoned Love
Nice finds Joe.
Nick Cave did a good cover of “Wanted Man” I can’t find s good video of it though.
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It is by far too late for me to say Watchtower, but the Dylan 30th Anniversary concert had a lot of great Dylan covers, including Clapton doing Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright, George Harrison singing Absolutely Sweet Marie, and Neil Young playing Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues.
Oh, and lest we forget, Hendrix also covered Like A Rolling Stone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nomiRFkEd64
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I’ve never seen that video or heard Hendrix’s cover of that song. Thanks wombat.
The Austrian musician Wolfgang Ambros brought out an LP in the late 70′s of Dylan covers…….. sung in Austrian dialect! I totally enjoyed it. Title was “Wie im Schlaf”
One song was “I bins ned” -> high German: ich bin es nicht (It Ain’t me Babe).
It’s weird, seems like every time I comment here it’s about German song titles. Nimm’s mi net übel :-)
Interesting. I somehow do not think of Dylan getting much play time in Europe though I know that is not the case.
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I haven’t heard Dylan played much in Germany but then i am not the one to ask, as I rarely listen to radio here – it’s much too bland.
Otherwise, I am also with the other comments about Hendrix covering Watchtower.
But am surprised no one has mentioned the Tim Robbns film Bob Roberts. Coming out in the early nineties it is a prescient and chilling glmpse into the direction American politics was takng. It is a pseudodocumentary about a rght wing politician folk singer, modelled after Bob Dylan and his rise to power. There are also a lot of nods to Dylan, like the music video Wall Street Rap (subterrainian homesick blues) – instead of Allan Ginsberg in the background you see two business men phoning on their mobiles. It’s a must see film, though sadly a bit late.
I’ve never heard of that film. I’ll check it out for sure.
Why’s no one mentioned Richie Havens cover of “License to Kill”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JltNLkh03ME
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I didn’t mention it because I’ve never heard it. Good stuff.
Speaking of Ritchie Havens, check this action out, from “I’m not There.” Not the whole song, but what’s there is pretty awesome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7yRqsxid4c
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Nice one Wombat. How are you?
Pretty great! I’m starting to get used to my new schedule, and I should be writing again soon. How are you?
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Good, I’m checking out your post now.
Oh I don’t know, Rainy Day Women is pretty good.
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By what artist?
I’m late here. Add another check to Hendrix and Watchtower. Incidentally, I stayed at the Hyde Park Towers on my recent trip to London. Kind of a dive, but they did boast that they were Hendrix’s first home in London (and where he wrote Stone Free).