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Thread #29369   Message #370937
Posted By: Little Hawk
08-Jan-01 - 01:07 PM
Thread Name: Favourite covers of Dylan songs
Subject: RE: Favourite covers of Dylan songs
My favourites are mostly by Joan Baez (all of them). I absolutely love how she does Dylan, because it's somehow the complete opposite counterpoint to how he does it (which I also love). In that sense, they are the perfect combination...like Yin and Yang, you might say. They have done some great duets together.

Shawn Colvin does a very nice rendition of "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" on her album "Cover Girl", which is great all the way through.

When Hendrix did Dylan he did it very well. Bob remodelled "All Along The Watchtower" to sound quite a bit like the Hendrix version.

The Byrds? I appreciated their covers of Dylan, but I felt that they smoothed them out a little too much or something...and they left out some of the lyrics on "Tambourine Man".

I like my covers of Dylan too...but they have not been recorded. I very seldom hear anyone around here do Dylan full justice, except for me. My friend Walsh says I AM Bob Dylan, which is kind of him, but he's wrong, of course. Walsh loves Dylan.

I would LOVE to hear Sinead O'Connor do ANY Dylan song. That girl knows how to sing and mean it.

- LH