Category Archives: Cover versions

Bob Dylan, Cover versions, Van Morrison

Videos of the day: Van Morrison – Just Like A Woman (Bob Dylan) 3 takes

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Photo: Jarle Vines (Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike 3.0)
Photo: Jarle Vines (Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike 3.0)

“Just Like a Woman” is a song written by Bob Dylan and first released on his 1966 album, Blonde on Blonde.  It was also released as a single in the U.S. during August 1966 and peaked at #33 on the Billboard Hot 100. Just Like a Woman has been covered by a variety of different bands and artists,among them are Radka Toneff, Roberta Flack, Manfred Mann, Nina Simone, The Byrds, Joe Cocker, Van Morrison, Jeff Buckley, Rod Stewart, Counting Crows, Gregg Allman and Richie Havens. Today we hear and listens to Van Morrisons takes on this beautiful song.

Three incredible performances in a 30 year time span. I love that jazzy feeling that he infuses his interpretations with.

Van Morrison – Just Like A Woman (live 1974, Winterland, San Francisco):

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Bob Dylan, Cover versions, The Best Songs

Five good and two GREAT versions of Bob Dylan’s Abandoned Love

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Abandoned Love is a beautiful song, one of Dylan’s finest. A lovely song that Bob Dylan recorded for (but left out of) Desire in NYC, July 31, 1975. It was later released on Biograph in 1985. The only live version Dylan did of the song is even better. We include both of Dylan’s takes on the song here (the two great ones), but first we will present five cover versions (the three good ones).

Five good cover versions:

Chuck Prophet – Abandoned Love (live):

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Bob Dylan, Cat Power, Cover versions, Sound

Cat Power covers Bob Dylan and sings about him

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I’m going to my first Cat Power/Chan Marshall show this Tuesday, I’m really looking forward to it. I have listened a lot to her music lately and she has some great interpretations of songs by Bob Dylan.

Charlyn Marie Marshall (born January 21, 1972), also known as Chan Marshall or by her stage name Cat Power, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, occasional actress and model. Cat Power was originally the name of Marshall’s first band, but has come to refer to her musical projects with various backing bands.

Marshall was discovered opening for Liz Phair in 1994 by Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth and Tim Foljahn of Two Dollar Guitar, with whom she recorded her first two albums, Dear Sir (1995) and Myra Lee (1996), on the same day in 1994. In 1996 she signed with Matador Records, and released a third album of new material with Shelley and Foljahn, What Would the Community Think. Following this she released the critically acclaimed Moon Pix (1998), recorded with members of the Dirty Three, and The Covers Record (2000), a collection of sparsely recorded cover songs. After a brief hiatus she reemerged in 2003 with You Are Free, featuring guest musicians Dave Grohl and Eddie Vedder, followed by the soul-influenced The Greatest (2006), recorded with numerous Memphis studio musicians, and a second covers album, Jukebox (2008). In 2012 she released the self-produced Sun, which opened at number 10 on the Billboard 200, the highest charting album of her career to date.

Here are the Dylan covers done by Cat Power that I managed to dig up, enjoy!

Cat Power aka Chan Marshall – Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again one of the best tracks on the I’m Not There soundtrack (audio):

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Bob Dylan, Cover versions

4 good and one great version of Bob Dylan’s Sweetheart like you

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Sweetheart Like You is a song to a woman, it sounds like a love song, but also a warning not to stray away from home/God.

It was released on the album Infidels that was released October 27, 1983.

Oliver Trager’s book, Keys to the Rain: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, mentions that some have criticized this song as sexist. Indeed, music critic Tim Riley makes that accusation in his book, Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary, singling out lyrics like “…a woman like you should be at home/That’s where you belong/Taking care of somebody nice/Who don’t know how to do you wrong.” However, Trager also cites other interpretations that dispute this claim.

Some have argued that “Sweetheart Like You” is being sung to the Christian church (“what’s a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?”), claiming that Dylan is mourning the church’s deviation from scriptural truth. I think this is stretching the analysis a bit too far, but everyone is entitled to his/her opinions.

I love the melody, I love the song.

Let us start with the 4 good ones:

Very fine version from World party/Carl Wallinger – Sweetheart Like You (Audio):

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Bob Dylan, Cover versions

Shooter Jennings covers Isis by Bob Dylan

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Waylon Albright “Shooter” Jennings (born May 19, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter active in the country music and Southern rock genres as well as making his first foray into psychedelic rock in 2009. Signed to Universal South Records, Jennings made his debut with the single “4th Of July” of his 2005 album Put the “O” Back in Country, which peaked at No. 26 on the Billboard country charts. Jennings has since followed with five more albums: Electric Rodeo (2006), The Wolf (2007), Black Ribbons (2009), Family Man (2012), and The Other Life (2013).

Born May 19, 1979, Shooter Jennings is the only child of country music icons Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter.

“Isis” is the second track on the Bob Dylan album Desire. It was written by Bob Dylan in collaboration with Jacques Levy. It is a long complicated song and it seems like a difficult song to cover.

Shooter does a great job on this classic Bob Dylan song, I have included two performances.

Shooter Jennings, Isis, live at Goose On The Lake 2012:

And now with full band an even better version!

Shooter Jennings – Isis, Houston 08.23.14:

– Hallgeir