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You could move the goalposts (again) and play this fine tribute to Dr. Zimmerman;

'Bob Dylan's Visit to Embra' - Michael Marra


If not, I'll settle for Oor Willie.

'What Was it You Wanted?' - Willie Nelson

The Times They Are A Changin' - James Last

The best Dylan cover version I have heard:

Emmylou Harris - Every Grain Of Sand simply sublime

According to Bob the best he has heard:

Elvis Presley - Tommorrow Is A Long Time

The oddest bob cover that works:

The Magokro Brothers - My Brothers, trust me. Bob in Japanese, it works

The most recent Bob cover I heard:

Andrea Glass - Is Your Love In Vain

The best Bob Dylan sample I have heard:

Gabrielle - Rise

I could go on. Dylan. Genius.

Madeleine Peyroux You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Madeleine has a wonderfully rich soulful jazz voice - a cross between the best of Ella and Billie. Maybe Bob could take some singing lessons from her...... I think his strength is in his song writing.................

As you know, I think the best, most beautiful Dylan cover is the JSD Band's version of 'Don't Think Twice it's Allright'...but only if you can manage to find the original from the album 'Country Of The Blind'...not the re-recorded version...seriously, once you hear it nothing else will do!

Otherwise...

'Going To Acupulco' (from the 'I'm Not There' soundtrack - Jim James/Calexico)
'I'll be your baby tonight' - Norah jones
'Buckets Of rain' - Wendy Bucklew

Ah well... Bob Dylan and cover versions - here's an interesting and imho quite brilliant twist to the theme - the utterly fantastic and world's best ever cover version of this timeless classic:

Blue Moon - Bob Dylan

Simply marvelous - try it!

regardez-youse

henri

A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall --- Bryan Ferry

Big second for #4

Patti Smith ~ Wicked Messenger

Julie remind me of a cover which matches Emmylou:

The Peter Malik Group and Norah Jones - Heart Of Mine

brilliant

#8 Madmac reminds me of:

Patti Smith - Changing Of The Guards

a great version of a lost Bob gem....

or

Check this out Norrie...

P.J. Harvey ~ Highway 61 Revisited

It's all over now baby blue / Them
The greatest Dylan Cover

Simple Twist of Fate / Joan Baez
Love the verse she sings in the style of the hoover

Maggies farm / Solomon Burke

Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues / Frankie Miller

The Mighty Quinn/ Manfred Mann's earthband
That's the Earthband not the namby pamby 60's version

With God on our Side / Neville Brothers

#12 superb, never heard that.

#13 great suggestions paolo, hard to argue with Them!

Tom Thumb's Blues is my favourite Dylan song. The Frankie Miller version is spoiled by someone singing along or octave double tracking that sounds like a poor man's Brenton Wood. As they used to say on the sleeves - nobody sings Dylan like Dylan.

That sounds Just Like a great suggestion Glen...

I'm really looking forward to this one as it was a great show the last time it was done. On that occasion I had two tracks played back to back so I'm not gonna be greedy this time. To be honest i've struggled to come up with something that hasn't been played a lot before, so had a quick trawl online for some of my favourites. After sampling a few from Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley and The Band my favourite so far is this nice easy listening effort, good pace and harmonies......

My Back Pages - The Byrds


Paul from Ayr

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - Earl Scruggs
Forever Young - Joan Baez
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Grateful Dead - have to agree with Glen on Frankie's version
I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine - Thea Gilmore
and for the sake of seeing a few eyes rolling -
Desolation Row - My Chemical Romance

This would be an unusual track to play, but also very very good:

Antony & Bryce Dressner - I Was Young When I Left Home

iT would be great to hear Joni Mitchell's beautiful ,haunting "lost" cover of "It's All Over Now,Baby Blue"It was intended to be on "Night Ride Home"but only appeared in the 2003 Box set "The Geffen Years"Fast forward 20 years and she denounces Dylan as a plagiarist and a fake!As Bob would croak"Things Change"!Mind you, he murdered"Big Yellow Taxi",Cheers Willie Bartke

Oh and I'd also like to nominate the stunning:

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Graham Bonnet

regardez youse

henri

oh and ..

If Not For You - Olivia Newton John ... better than Georg's version imho

regardez youse

henri

Henri - it's late, try and get some sleep.....

Happy to second Norrie's Emmylou suggestion. Also:

To make you feel my love - Trisha Yearwood
Forever young - Audra Mae
Boots of spanish leather - Nanci Griffith
Mr Tambourine Man - The Byrds
Chimes of freedom - Springteen


Joe
Linlithgow

Tuesday:

I'll be your baby tonight - Kris Kristofferson

or

I shall be released - Chrissie Hynd




Both are brilliant tracks from 'Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Celebration'


DC

Many happy returns Bob

"Happy Birthday Bob, we love ya"

DC they could do worse than play the e ntire 'Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Celebration'

A good while since we've had any Christy Moore on GIO....

'The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll' would fit the bill!

How old are zebedee dougal and Florence?

is 65

Former P M Margaret Thatcher inspired some unforgettable protest tracks.
On reflection it was as if most musicians in the UK were united against the Iron Lady's Conservative government.Ìý
The Specials response was to update one of Dylan's more abstract "protest" songs, "Maggie's Farm" and on hearing it at the time left me feeling blessed that I had got myself a job!

Do Nothing / Maggie's Farm ~ T. Specials

Henri - The Daniel O'Donnell tickets won't buy themselves! Hurry up before they sell out!

:o)


I Shall Be Released - Nina Simone

Love Is A Four-Letter Word - Joan Baez


Happy Birthday Bob!

:o)

#31 what a great theme idea MMFC

Anti-Maggie songs. There must be a weeks worth in that

DC

It's hard to imagine any woman taking on Dylan's "Just like a Woman"considering its misogynistic lyrics but civil rights activist and feminist Soul Diva Nina Simone is the last woman that comes to mind. She pulls it off magnificently though, imbueing the lyrics with a (female) vulnerability far removed from Dylan's bitter delivery.Its my favourite Dylan cover not to mention her devastating take on"Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues"I got to see him at Earls Court in 1978 around the time of "Street Legal"and the alarm bells went (for me anyway)when I heard songs like "Senor" and "Changing of the Guard".His last truly great album for many of us was "Blood on the Tracks".These days his voice is "but a joke"Cheer,Willie Bartke

Dylan Day here is almost like Ferry day as BF has rerelased 15 Covers including Dylanesque and album full of them

My choice would be Don't Think Twice It's All Right, just vocals, piano and BF on the moothie.

His Dylan output is:
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
It Ain't Me Babe
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Simple Twist Of Fate
Make You Feel My Love
The Times They Are A-Changin'
All I Really Want To Do
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Positively 4th Street
If Not For You
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
Gates Of Eden
All Along The Watchtower

Unreleased leftovers from the Dylanesque sessions are:
Tangled Up In Blue, Blowin' In The Wind, Lay Lady Lay, To Ramona, My Back Pages, Love Minus Zero/No Limits, It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry, Mr. Tambourine Man, Bob Dylan's Dream


J.O'B.

#23

No kiddin'. Olivia's version of this happy little ditty by Dylan seems to me to be a perfect reinterpretation as a pop song. It's a good pop song. To paraphrase Macca - What's wrong with that?

I like Bob and wish him all the best, as we all do, but I've never acepted that an ability with rhyming obscurities is the de facto equivilent of intellectual genius.It's just an ability with rhyming obscurities - he's a great wordsmith and a great songwriter and good performer when he's in the mood. But much of his material is brilliantly worded and similtaneoulsy obscure, personal and quite hard to breakthrough or breakdown and the folky 'protest' songs suffer from the restricted vision of all 'protest' songs - a whining dead end which offers no way out or no way forward: no solutions.A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall. Yes...and...?

My Back Pages is probably his best, most honest, easily understood work on the subject/s and worthy of our empathy.

It's the same story with Madmac's reference to protest songs against Maggie:none of it changed anything. There is nothing so futile as regret and protest songs, as some of our politicos in the West of Scotland are waking up to 30 years too late.

regardez youse

henri

#32

Senga - have I to buy tickets for your Aunties as well... or is it their turn for Blackpool this year?

regardez vous

henri

* Robert Plant - One More Cup of Coffee
* Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower (for the QI Klaxon)
* U2 - All Along the Watchtower (avoiding it)
* Indigo Girls - Tangled up in Blue
* Bryan Ferry - Simple Twist of Fate
* The Byrds - It's All Right Baby Blue
* Siouxsie and the Banshees - This Wheel's on Fire

Henri,I agree that some of his early lyrics are at best obscure symbolism(A Hard Rain)which really impressed in 1965 but now looks sadly dated and resulted in a whole slew of sub Dylan copyists,,early Springsteen being one of the the main culprits.Too many words!Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen are far superior lyricists to Dylan(imho)by the fact that they dont resort to abstractions so much, though to give him credit he set the ball rolling.Its the "Emperor's New Suit" syndrome though as far as I can see.Everybody gushing about "Modern Times"I dont get it at all these days.There is an interesting article in todays Herald headed "Master Poet or Ageing Myth"which galvanised my views on his Bobness!Cheers, Willie Bartke

#36

You're right, he's not all he's cracked up to be.

What about songs about flowers instead - Good Year For the Roses, Lilac Wine....?

#33

Leading off with Mr Costello...

I saw once on a very evenly matched but passionate political discussion board someone posted "I see Lady Thatcher is in hospital. Fingers crossed, eh?" which has to be be one of my top 10 trolls ever for beautifully pitched ambiguity designed to start arguments.

#39

To (mis)quote Mozart: There are just as many words as there need to be. Perhaps His Majesty would suggest which ones we could remove..?

#33

There's no place for original themes on this show anymore...

#43

You say that (and I have some sympathy for the view), but I thought the lunch/love theme was spectacular.

Now if Bryan got himself onto Twitter (to join and ) he'd see that that's the kind of game that happens a lot on the tweets.

Today's example: Typefacesongs

* Sign O' the Times
* The Times They Are Changin'
* Highway to Helvetica
* I Shot the Serif
* Georgia on my mind
* For those about to Rockwell
* We will Rockwell
* You Can Call Me Arial
* The Great Descender
* There's a Garamond down the chipshop swears he's Eurostyle
* At the Optima
* Strange Frutiger
* Across the Univers
* Lucida in the sky with diamonds
* Avenir I told you lately that I love you?

#40 Pictures of Lily, Where Have All The Flowers Gone.....

#38 I'll second Robert Plant

42#Wolfie,baby!Now your talkin!I should have put a smilie after paraphrasing Peter Schaffer!I'll come back to you if i can stay awake through "Sad Eyed Lady etc"!:0)Willie Bartke

Highway 61 Revisited -

#44

Verdana Yonder In New Orleans - Freddy Cannon - My pal invented it


I hear the Red Wedge artists are re-forming for the "Eton Fees Tour"

Richie Havens - Just Like A Woman

O.V. Wright - Blowing In The Wind

Great soul version

#40

Thistle be an everlasting love

May the Bird of Paradise fly up your nose

Three to consider:

Thea Gilmore - I dreamed I saw St Augustine
KT Tunstall - Tangled up in blue
Fairport Convention - Percy's Song

Richard Lucas, Fife

'e sent four toe

Norrie on the bog, have you lost your phone again???

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Great theme! How about "When I paint my masterpiece" or "It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry" from "Postcards of the hanging - Greatful Dead perform the songs of Bob Dylan" The second track features Dicky Betts and Butch Trucks of The Allman Brothers...........

thanks for playing Madeleine! The man certainly can write great songs even if his own singing abilities are debatable. That he has a diverse set of fantastic singers covering his work tells its own story. I even enjoyed Nanci Griffiths....;o)

#58 m-d got to hand it to you, that was my fave cover of the night, although i was a little bit miffed to realise at this point that Dylan was 0-5 down versus the cover-merchants! Not to worry, the proverbial game of two halfs and the great man came back to square it 9-9 IMO, thanks to several 2nd half own-goals. Couldn't decide on a couple of tracks, hence the score not adding up to 20. Proof conclusive, if any were needed, that Bob can hold out against the choon-stealers :o)