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Pops Staples - Masters of War (the definitive version I think)
Jerry Garcia - Senior
Sheryl Crow - Mississippi (is it a cover, it was released a coupla years before Dylan's version; she does it the way Dylan would have in 1966)
Them - It's All Over Now Baby Blue (famously sampled by Beck)
Rob Stoner - Seven Days (RTR bass player give it a scalding arrangement)
Of course the Byrds' Chimes of Freedom
If you really want to make yourself crazy there's a DB of more than 17,000 Dylan covers here.
17K!!!!
The full-band version of My Back Pages done Byrds-style
featuring Roger McGuin, Tom Petty, George Harrison (brings tears to my eyes(!),) Neil Young, Clapton, and of course Bob Dylan has to be one of the coolest things I've ever experienced at a concert.
Check it Out.
[Tom - maybe this video deserves to be promoted to the bonus videos in the mail post?]
You can even listen to it here:
http://jasonandthescorchers.com/diesel_cafe/die...
I'm also partial to Steve Earle's "My Back Pages", but I'm an Earle freak.
I shouldn't have left off Nico's track - that's a good one.
Unlike other songs mentioned here, it's not just a cover, it's reclamation. Van redefines the song, wraps in silk and soul and proclaims here - here is heartbreak. It is, like most of Astral Weeks, celestial.
Once heard you cannot listen to Dylan sing it without thinking of the Morrison version. It's like there are two different songs from one source - both equally stunning and essential.
Cassandra Wilson's cover of Shelter From the Storm is sublime. She also does wonderful covers of The Weight, Last Train To Clarksville, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, and If Loving You Is Wrong, among others.
1. Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
2. Sublime - Scarlett Begonias (Grateful Dead)
3. Fall Out Boy - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)
4. Chris Carabba - Woe (Say Anything)
5. Pearl Jam - Keep On Rockin in the Free World (Neil Young)
Van Morrison's "Just Like a Woman" (live 1971)
Roseanne Cash's "License to Kill" (saw that live in LA in 2003)
Odetta's "Masters of War"
Joan Baez's "Farewell Angelina"
and a million more...
Madeleine Peyroux: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You GO
I think even Bob would say this is the definitive version, jusr like Hendix's Watchtower.
Richie Havens - Just Like A Woman
Tom Petty - License To Kill
Bruce Springsteen - Chimes of Freedom (mini CD released, I think, with the live box set)
The Band - Blind Willie McTell
Emmylou Harris - Every Grain of Sand
Track Title Artist Album
I Don't Want to Do It Harrison, George Porky's Revenge!
I Dreamed I Saw Saint Augustine Gilmore, Thea Hard Rain (Tribute To Bob Dylan) Vol One
All Along The Watchtower Mahal, Taj & The Hula Blues Band Hanapepe Blues
Ballad Of A Thin Man Sports, The Doin' Dylan (1 of 2)
Chimes Of Freedom N'dour, Youssou With Bruce Cockburn Columbia Records Radio Hour, Volume 2
Born In Time Clapton, Eric Pilgrim
Pressing On Chicago Mass Choir Gotta Serve Somebody - The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan
Ring Them Bells Lightfoot, Gordon Doin' Dylan (2 of 2)
Times They Are A-Changing, The Simon, Carly & Graham Nash / James Taylor No Nukes (1 of 2)
Knockin' On Heavens Door Jean, Wyclef Masquerade
Love Minus Zero/No Limit [*] Fleetwood Mac Say You Will [Bonus Disc]
Girl From The North Country Hornsby, Bruce Best Of Mountain Stage-Volume Six
Tomorrow Is A Long Time Presley, Elvis Artist Of The Century
Abandoned Love Everly Brothers Doin' Dylan (2 of 2)
Mighty Quinn, The Ralph, Sheryl Lee Mighty Quinn, The
Well, Well, Well Howe, Steve Portraits Of Bob Dylan
When The Ship Comes In Pogues, The Pogue Mahone
You're A Big Girl Now Sugar Black Blowin' In The Wind A Reggae Tribute To Bob Dylan
Thula Sizwe/I Shall Be Released Place Of Hope Place Of Hope
Man Of Peace Holmes Brothers, The Speaking In Tongues
I Believe In You O'Connor, Sinead Very Special Christmas, A (2)
Boots Of Spanish Leather Griffith, Nancy Doin' Dylan (2 of 2)
I Threw It All Away [Bob Dylan] Costello, Elvis Kojak Variety
Ain't No Man Righteous, No Not One Jah Malla I Shall Be Unreleased, The Songs Of Bob Dylan
Love Is Just A Four Letter Word Baez, Joan I Shall Be Unreleased, The Songs Of Bob Dylan
The Dead's version of "When I Paint My Masterpiece," with Bob Weir on vocals, is my fave Dylan cover of all time.
Also more than worth mentioning is the Dead's kick-ass arrangement of "All Along the Watchtower," which is the version Dylan is actually copping on the Never-Ending Tour, despite Dylan's claims that he's doing Hendrix.
Jerry Garcia sang an absolutely haunting "She Belongs to Me" with the Dead on occasion, often covered, to great effect, "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" -- drawing crazy patterns on your sheets, indeed -- and rarely but definitively sang "Visions of Johanna."
Talking about this reminds me that it's such a tragedy that Jerry missed Dylan's last three albums. He would have gone crazy for them... I'm guessing "Not Dark Yet," "Moonlight," "Mississippi," "Workingman's Blues #2" and "Nettie Moore" would have found their way into his repertoire.
There are several not so good to good reggae comps out there. A decent cd, that came with a bonus dub version.
"Is it rolling Bob? on Ras Records". Old school groups with great nod to bob.
I put him up there with King David.