Bob Dylan Covers by Folk Artists
[songs about Bob Dylan]
Donal Hinely\ Song for Bob\ Blue State Boy\ Scuffletown
[songs composed by Bob Dylan, but never recorded by him (not counting bootlegs)]
Old Crow Medicine Show\ Wagon Wheel\ O.C.M.S.\ Nettwerk (co-wrote)
Joan Baez\ Love is Just a Four-Letter Word
[other covers of Bob Dylan songs]
Alice Stuart And The Formerlys\ It's All Over Now Baby Blue\ Freedom\ Independent
Uncle Earl\ Wallflower\ Waterloo, Tennessee\ Rounder
Chris Smither\ Visions of Johanna\ Leave the Light On\ Signature
Tom Russell\ Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts\ Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs\ Hightone
Nickel Creek (Sara)\ Tomorrow is a Long Time\ Why Should the Fire Die?\ Sugar Hill
The Kennedys\ Chimes of Freedom\ Half a Million Miles\ Appleseed
Happy Traum\ Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You\ I Walk the Road Again\ Roaring Stream
Claudia Russell\ Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You\ Ready to Receive\ Radio Rhythm
Rodney Crowell\ Shelter From the Storm\ The Outsider\ Sugar Hill
Chris Smither w/Bonnie Raitt\ Desolation Row\ Train Home\ Hightone
Tim O'Brien\ Tombstone Blues\ Red on Blonde\ Sugar Hill
Danu\ Farewell, Angelina\ When All is Said and Done\ Shanachie
Tim Grimm\ Girl From The North Country\ The Back Fields\ Wind River
Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault & Peter Mulvey\ Buckets of Rain\ Redbird\ Signature
Nanci Griffith\ Boots of Spanish Leather\ Other Voices, Other Rooms\ Elektra
From Susanne Millsaps
Thursday Breakfast Jam, KRCL
- Tim O'Brien's whole "Red on Blonde" CD, pointed out by multiple folks
- Druha Trava, "One More Cup of Coffee"
- Joan Osborne, "Man in the Long Black Coat"
- Emmylou Harris, "Every Grain of Sand" from "Wrecking Ball"
- Mary Lee's Corvette, "Blood on the Tracks" CD, which is a cover of an album
- Richie Havens, "Just Like a Woman"
- Cher, "All I Really Want to Do"
- Bruce Springsteen, "Chimes of Freedom"
- The whole "Nod to Bob" CD
- Robin Greenstein, You're Going to Make Me Lonesome When You Go from her "
Acousticness"
- Bill Camplin, "Percy's Song", from "Project One"
- Fairport Convention, "Percy's Song"
- Chris Smither w/ Bonnie Raitt, "Desolation Row", from his latest, "Train
Home" [and interestingly enough, the number-one suggested tune]
- Nanci Griffith, "Boots of Spanish Leather", from "Winter Marquee" or "
Other Voices Other Rooms"
- Finest Kind, "The Times They Are a Changin'", from "Silks & Spices"
- Baby Gramps, "Love Minus Zero/No Limit", from "Hossradish"
- Joan Baez, anything from "Any Day Now", a double LP set of Dylan covers
("I Shall Be Released" was also specifically suggested)
- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" from "Will the Circle
Be Unbroken vol. 2"
- Dev Singh, "I Pity the Poor Immigrant", from his "Balboa" CD
- Fairport Convention, "I'll Keep It With Mine", "Million Dollar Bash", and
"Si Tu Dois Partir" from their "Fairport Convention" and "Unhalfbricking" CDs
- Sandy Denny, "Down in the Flood" from her first solo album
- Fairport Convention, "Open the Door, Richard", from "Red and Gold"
- Dave Van Ronk, something like "The Man in the Street", maybe on "From
Another Time & Place"
- Arlo Guthrie, "Gates of Eden"
- Peter Bellamy, "Wake the Vaulted Echoes", from the "Free Reed" box set
- Martin Carthy, "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll", on "Signs of Life"
- Judy Collins, "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", from "In My Life"
- Sinead Lohan, "To Ramona"
- Joni Mitchell, "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", a demo on her new Geffen
box set
- Richie Havens, "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
- Dervish, "Boots of Spanish Leather", on "Spirit"
- Martin Simpson, "Highway 61 Revisited"/"61 Highway" on his "Live" CD/EP
- Fairport Convention, "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" on
their "Cropredy 2002" CD; on that same CD, "Jack O'Diamonds" is a Dylan
poem set to music by American actor Ben Carruthers
- Dave Pegg and company, a series of Dylan covers, from "The Dylan Project"
- Fairport Convention, "Ballad of Easy Rider" (attributed to Roger McGuinn
but apparently widely believed to have been co-written by Dylan), on
"Unhalfbricking", the Island Remasters version
- Old Blind Dogs: "Hollis Brown" from "Legacy"
- Blowzabella: "Masters of War" from "In Colour"
- Broadside Electric: "Masters of War" from "With Teeth"
- Eliza Gilkyson, w/ her brother Terry: "Chimes of Freedom" from "Misfits"
- O Susanna: "I'll Keep It With Mine", from "O Susanna"
- Alastair Moock: "Let Me Die with My Boots On" from one of his first CDs
- Dave Van Ronk: "If I Had It to Do All Over Again (I'd Do It All Over You",
which he apparently claimed is the first Dylan cover recorded, from "Crestomathy"
- Peter Keane: "I Want You", from "Walkin' Around" on Rounder/Flying Fish
- Hamilton Camp: "Girl from the North Country" from "Folksong '65" on Elektra
- Katy Moffatt: "Going Ninety Miles an Hour Down a Dead End Street"
- Doug Hoekstra: "Isis"
- Lucy Kaplansky: "It Ain't Me" from "A Nod to Bob" on Red House
- The Paperboys: "All Along the Watchtower" from "Nod to Bob" on Red House
[Is that really my only CanCon? No, I guess The Band gets counted, too.]
- "Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan" (though I'd swear there's more to the title
than that), a compilation CD that came out in 2003
Other covers that have occurred to me include Youssou N'dour's "Chimes of
Freedom", Indigo Girls' "Tangled Up in Blue" from "1200 Curfews", Nina Simone'
s "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", Judy Collins' whole album of Dylan covers
(I particularly like "Serve Somebody" off that album), Ian & Sylvia's "
Tomorrow Is a Long Time" from "Four Strong Winds", Katy Moffatt's "It Takes a Lot
to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry", Howard Tate's "Girl of the North Country"
, Shawn Colvin's "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go, and The
Persuasions' "The Man in Me".