We like cover versions here at alldylan.com, and here are some really great examples. They are not better than the originals, but they are different and they are good.
Enjoy!
P J Harvey – Shot of Love:
Incredible rendition!
December 1999, Music Of The Millennium Awards, Channel 4. Polly chose Bob Dylan as her Musician of the Millennium and performed this tribute.
Continue reading 12 good Bob Dylan covers done by some incredible women
Maria Luisa McKee (born August 17, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known for her work with Lone Justice and her 1990 UK solo chart-topping hit, “Show Me Heaven”.
McKee was a founding member of the cowpunk/country rock band, Lone Justice, in 1982, with whom she released two albums. Several compilations of both previously released and unreleased material and a BBC Live In Concert album have been released since the group disbanded. Her band opened for such acts as U2.
Continue reading August 17: Maria McKee sings Bob Dylan – Happy Birthday Maria McKee
“See That My Grave Is Kept Clean” is a blues song recorded by Blind Lemon Jefferson in 1927 that became “one of his most famous compositions”. Son House used the melody on his 1930 recording of “Mississippi County Farm Blues”.
Bob Dylan recorded the song for his 1962 debut album Bob Dylan. He recorded it again with the Band, which is included on The Basement Tapes (complete) as One Kind Favor.
It is also available on the “semi official” releases:
“Minnesota Hotel Tape,” Dec 22, 1961,
Second Gaslight Tape, late 1962
and Second McKenzies’ Tape, Apr 1963 Continue reading The songs he didn’t write: Bob Dylan See that my grave is kept clean (Blind Lemmon Jefferson)
Then later I got to Woody Guthrie, which opened up a whole new world at the time. I was still only 19 or 20. I was pretty fanatical about what I wanted to do, so after learning about 200 of Woody’s songs, I went to see him and I waited for the right moment to visit him in a hospital in Morristown, New Jersey.
~Bob Dylan (to Ron Rosenbaum, Nov 1977)
Ramblin’ around your city,
Ramblin’ around your town,
I never see a friend I know
As I go ramblin’ ’round boys,
As I go ramblin’ ’round.
Continue reading Bob Dylan: 7 Woody Guthrie covers (audio & video)
Mr. Tambourine Man is a song written, composed, and performed by Bob Dylan, who released his original version of it on his 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home. The Byrds also recorded a version of the song that they released in the same year as their first single on Columbia Records, reaching number 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100chart and the UK Singles Chart, as well as being the title track of their first album, Mr. Tambourine Man. The Byrds’ recording of the song was influential in initiating the musical subgenre of folk rock, leading many contemporary bands to mimic its fusion of jangly guitars and intellectual lyrics in the wake of the single’s success.
Aurora Aksnes (born 15 June 1996), known mononymously as Aurora (stylised as AURORA) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. Her debut EP Running with the Wolves was released through Decca Records in May 2015, receiving widespread approval from online music blogs and national press.
She has sung Mr. Tambourine Man on several occasions, I’ve picked some of them. She gives the song an overworldy ethereal quality. She brings something new to this masterpiece of a song and it’s a testament to the everlasting quality of the tune. Even if it’s very true to the source material.
Continue reading The Best Dylan Covers: AURORA – Mr. Tambourine Man