Monday, June 15, 2009

Covers of Bob Dylan songs

Okay, sorry, but not a Bob Dylan fan.

Love his music, love his lyrics, Hate him doing his own stuff.

But it's simply amazing how many other singers/bands have covered his songs over the years and still do today.

According to a website that does nothing but keep track of the folks covering him, called appropriately enough It Ain't Me, Babe at http://www.bjorner.com/Covers.htm they currently show 5,780 covers of 350 different Dylan songs by 2,791 artists.

The top ten songs covered?

Blowin in the wind (375 times)
Don't think twice, it's all right
I shall be released
Mr. Tamborine Man
Like a rolling stone
Knocking on heavens door
All along the watchtower
It's all over now, baby blue
I'll be your baby tonight
Quinn the Eskimo

Okay, now how many of you Honestly knew that Dylan did All along the watchtower, and didn't think instead, like me, that that is a Hendrix song?

So here are some of my fave Dylan songs, when done by someone else

Don't think twice-Eric Clapton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCJ15r-ny5Q
And for the gay girls, same song by the Indigo Girls with Brandie Carlile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b972E1b3fw
And Elvis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v72Q9WXWuM4
I shall be released- Sting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3MDO3xS584
Bette Midler, live, 1977
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWy4kIE3IcE
Mr. Tamborine Man- The Byrds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVnU_WaTvdc
William Shatner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0hTtsqiFCc
Like a rolling stone-Bob Marley and the Wailers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BBBMNjPblY
Knocking on heavens door-Eric Clapton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh4WwCzjtL4
Guns n Roses (0ne of my fave groups, and love their version, like usual Slash's solo is amazing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGKiQQB2QmI
All along the watchtower- Jimi Hendrix Live at Isle of Wight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwCBh0z3Hs
studio version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bng3agUOYiI
I'll be your baby tonight-Norah Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7PHHS3Wo08
Rita Coolidge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcMyuGxeDnE
Quinn the Eskimo-Manfred Mann's Earth Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnQFmvICP_0
Forever young-Audra Mae
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0gUgTrYja8

love,
Angie

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