Monday Music: Bob Dylan 80 - A Birthday Tribute

 A great concert with some of the best Dylan covers I have heard. 

"Billy Bob Productions and Spirited productions bring you the Montreal music scene's tribute to Rock 'n Roll Hall of fame, Nobel Prize and Grammy winning poet laureate, Bob Dylan on his 80th birthday." 

The producers indicate, "This video is not monetized and is meant solely as a tribute."

If you watch on the YouTube site, there is a list of songs and you can click on the one you want to hear if you don't have time for an entire concert. 

 

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Dylan Covers: The week’s Line-up

During the week of Bob Dylan's birthday, which was May 24, I celebrated by posting 16 covers of Dylan's work by various artists (17 covers when you figure that Eric Clapton did two). Onething I tried to do was to show the range of Bob Dylan's appeal, from Black Gospel choir, to folk, to rock, to country; from tender love songs to biting social commentary to sheer celebration. 

Below is the list of songs, with a hyperlink to each post:

• Pressing On (Chicago Mass Choir)
• A quoi ça sert de chercher à comprendre (French translation of “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright by Hugues Aufray)
• Blowin in the Wind (Peter, Paul & Mary)
• Mr. Tambourine Man (The Byrds)
• The Times They Are a-Changin' (Tracy Chapman)
• Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Marley's Ghost)
• Mississippi (Sheryl Crow)
• What Was It You Wanted? (Willie Nelson)
• I'll Remember You (Grayson Hughes)
• A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall (Jason Mraz)
• Love Minus Zero/No Limit, and Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (Eric Clapton)
• If Not for You (George Harrison)
• Make You Feel My Love (Adele)
• Boots of Spanish Leather (Nanci Griffith)
• Every Grain of Sand (Emmylou Harris)
• My Back Pages

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Countdown to Bob Dylan’s Birthday: So Many Songs – Innumerable Covers

According to some on the web, Bob Dylan has written 458 songs (and that seems to have been a tally as of 2009). Wikipedia  has a List of artists who have covered Bob Dylan songs arranged in alphabetical order. How many are listed? I stopped counting when I reached 100 and I was still in the middle of the C’s.

Josh Jackson has his 50 Best Bob Dylan Covers of All Time on PASTE magazine.com (it's actually 100 because for each favorite he lists an alternate cover that he also likes - and he includes videos).
What Dylan songs would make your list of favorites? What artists offer your favorite renditions of Dylan songs? If you look on the "Playlist" page of this blog you'll see some of my favorite Dylan tunes and covers.

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