Almanac Music: Dylan Cover Songs – International Style #11: Dylan’s Favourite Dylan Covers

 

I am very pleased to have synchronised this Dylan covers article to celebrate Bob’s 85^th birthday ~ 24 May 2026. Elsewhere on this journey of exploring Dylan covers through various lenses, I have recently taken a deep dive into Bob’s life and times circa 1965/66 ~ some 60 years and thirty-three studio albums ago. To know that Bob survived those extraordinary events and continued to thrive through changing times and musical styles is a gift that we can nurture in our own unique ways.

 

Thanks Bob ~ and happy birthday!

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In this 11^th article in the ‘Dylan Cover Songs – International Style’ series, I take a closer look at the Dylan cover songs that Dylan is claimed to have regarded as his personal favourites.

 

These claims of ‘favourites’ come from a variety of sources and were gathered together in an article by Dale Maplethorpe in Far Out Magazine on 13 February 2025. It appears that Maplethorpe was assisted in compiling his list by an earlier article from Cover Me Magazine – an article by Ray Padgett dated May 10 2021, titled: Every Time Bob Dylan Commented On A Cover Of One Of His Songs.

 

Some of the favourites listed below will be well known to most of us; some will be surprising; some may be hard to accept; and some will be ‘complete unknowns’, as they were only performed once at a unique overseas event and never released commercially.

 

I will honour the list (fourteen artists/fifteen Dylan covers) in the order provided by Maplethorpe. With the help of Padgett’s article I will also attribute the quote from Dylan that gives rise to the claim of favouritism. In this regard, it should be pointed out that eight of the fourteen claimed ‘favourites’ are drawn directly from a 2015 Q&A interview between Bill Flanagan and Dylan, which is no longer available on the BobDylan.com website.

 

It is also worthwhile noting that five ‘Dylan favourites’ happened at the Musicares Person of the Year ceremony to honour Dylan, held in Los Angeles on 6 March 2015. The Musicares event has been held annually since 1991 as a lead into the Grammy Awards. Dylan received his Person of the Year award from former US President Jimmy Carter.

 

1. Jimi Hendrix – ‘All Along the Watchtower’

 

It is not at all surprising that Dylan holds this cover in high esteem.

 

This is what Dylan said in the booklet accompanying his 1985 Biograph boxset:

 

 “I liked Jimi Hendrix’s record of ‘All Along The Watchtower’ and ever since he died I’ve been doing it that way … Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it’s a tribute to him in some kind of way.”

 

In a 1995 Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinal interview with John Dolan, Dylan is quoted as saying:

 

“’All Along The Watchtower’ overwhelmed me, really. Jimi had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He found things that other people wouldn’t think of finding in there. He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using. I took license with the song from his version, actually, and continue to do it to this day.”

 

Jimi released ‘All Along The Watchtower’ as a single and on his October 1968 Electric Ladyland album. The single peaked at #20 in the US; #5 in the UK; #9 in Australia and The Netherlands; #16 in Canada; and #21 in Germany. The album reached #1 in the US and Canada; #6 in the UK; #12 in Germany; and #13 in Norway.

 

Here is a live version of Jimi’s ‘All Along The Watchtower’ from the Isle Of Wight concert on 30 August 1970:

 

 

 

 

Dylan released the original acoustic version of ‘All Along The Watchtower’ on his December 1967 John Wesley Harding album. Within nine months (i.e. on 4 September 1968) Jimi released his electrified cover and it is this electrified version that set the template that would inspire the vast majority of the 244 subsequent covers ~ making ‘All Along The Watchtower’ the 6^th most covered song from Dylan’s anthology.

 

In fact, if you add all the covers of the remaining eleven songs on the John Wesley Harding album, they would collectively only come to 285, including the 164 covers of ‘I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight’. In other words, without Jimi’s electrified cover, the acoustic original cover of ‘All Along The Watchtower’ may well have resulted in only a handful to four handfuls of covers.

 

In terms of live performances, Dylan didn’t add ‘All Along The Watchtower’ to his set list until February 1978 ~ but once he did, he performed the song Hendrix-style and he continues to perform it even as this article was being written (1 May 2026 Abilene Convention Centre, TX). To date, Dylan has performed ‘All Along The Watchtower’ in concert on 2385 occasions ~ making the song the most performed song from his songbook.

 

Once again, without Jimi’s electrified version, Dylan may have treated ‘All Along The Watchtower’ in a similar vein to the other songs from the John Wesley Harding album ~ somewhere between: never performed live (4 songs from the album); to 256 performances of ‘Drifter’s Escape’; to 703 performances of ‘I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight’.

 

Jimi managed to perform ‘All Along The Watchtower’ in concert on ten occasions before he died on 18 September 1970. His final performance of the song was at the ‘Open Air Love & Peace Festival’, Fehmarn, Germany on 6 September 1970 (i.e. twelve days before his death).

 

2. Aaron Neville – ‘Shooting Star’

 

Aaron performed ‘Shooting Star’ at the March 2015 Musicares tribute to Dylan. Dylan praised Neville’s performance in an interview shortly after:

“I could always hear him singing that song. He’s recorded other songs of mine, all great performances, but for some reason I kept thinking about ‘Shooting Star’, something he’s never recorded but I knew that he could. I could always hear him singing it for some reason, even when I wrote it. I mean, what can you say? He’s the most soulful of singers, maybe in all of recorded history. If angels sing, they must sing in that voice. I just think his gift is so great. The man has no flaws, never has. He’s always been one of my favourite singers right from the beginning” (2015 BobDylan.com Q&A, Bill Flanagan).

 

I have been unable to find Aaron’s performance of ‘Shooting Star’ on YouTube, but this link gives a nice overview of the 2015 Musicares event and a brief glimpse of Aaron on stage at the 1min:06sec mark:

 

 

 

 

Dylan released ‘Shooting Star’ on his 1989 Oh Mercy album. The producer of Oh Mercy was Daniel Lanois, who had just completed producing The Neville Brothers Yellow Moon album ~ an album that included two Dylan covers, ‘With God On Our Side’ (which will feature later in this article) and ‘The Ballad Of Hollis Brown’.

 

3. Alanis Morissette – ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ 

 

Alanis performed ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ at the Musicares tribute to Dylan. Here is what Dylan said of Alanis’ performance:

 

“I couldn’t believe she got that so right, something I’d never been able to do” (2015 BobDylan.com Q&A, Bill Flanagan).

 

Unfortunately, apart from a brief glimpse of Alanis’ performance in the clip under Aaron Neville’s entry above, I have been unable to find a link to Alanis’ complete Musicares performance. Fortunately, however, Alanis also covered ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ when she stood in for Dylan at his 2005 Induction into the UK Music Hall Of Fame. Here is that performance:

 

 

 

 

Dylan released ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ on his 1965 Bringing It All Back Home album.

 

4. Billy Joel – ‘Make You Feel My Love’ 

 

In a 1997 London press conference conducted during a break in his Never Ending Tour schedule, Dylan was asked by prominent French rock critic Serge Kaganski:

 

‘What did you think of Billy Joel bashing out ‘Make You Feel My Love’?’

 

Dylan’s response:

 

‘Billy Joel’s a very dynamic artist and he can hear things in a song because he’s also a songwriter. He managed to probably convey that song in a different way than me. Nevertheless, he got something out of that song I would have never dreamed of myself. That’s what happens when you write a song, somebody can definitely interpret it a different way than the person who wrote it.’

 

Billy released ‘Make You Feel My Love’ in August 1997 for his compilation Greatest Hits Volume III album. The song was also released as the album’s lead single and reached #50 on the US Billboard Top 100 chart. Billy’s single pre-dated Dylan’s release of the song by one month.

 

Here is Billy’s version:

 

 

 

 

While Dylan recorded ‘Make You Feel My Love’ in January 1997, he did not release the song until his September 1997 Time Out Of Mind album.

 

5./6. Bonnie Raitt – ‘Standing in the Doorway’ & ‘Million Miles’ 

 

When Bill Flanagan asked Dylan what he thought of Bonnie’s covers of ‘Standing In The Doorway’ and ‘Million Miles’ on her 2012 Slipstream album, Dylan’s one word response was:

“Astonishing” (2015 BobDylan.com Q&A, Bill Flanagan)

 

In some ways this seems like an easy way for Bonnie to be added to the Dylan favourites list. I am sure Flanagan could have asked about any number of cover songs and Dylan would have answered equally positively, in a good number of cases. Nevertheless, here is a wonderful live version of Bonnie doing ‘Million Miles’ at the 2013 North Sea Jazz Festival:

 

 

 

 

Dylan released both songs (‘Standing In The Doorway’ and ‘Million Miles’) on his 1997 Time Out Of Mind album.

 

7. Bruce Springsteen – ‘Knocking on Heavens Door’

 

Bruce performed ‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’ at the Musicares tribute to Dylan and a snippet of this performance has been captured in the clip under Aaron Neville’s entry above. Here is what Dylan said of Bruce’s performance:

 

“Incredible! He did that song (‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’) like the record, something I myself have never tried. I never even thought it was worth it. Maybe never had the manpower in one band to pull it off. I don’t know, but I never thought about it. To tell you the truth, I’d forgotten how the song ought to go. Bruce pulled all the power and spirituality and beauty out of it like no one has ever done. He was faithful, truly faithful to the version on the record. I’m not a nostalgic person, but for a second there it all came back, Peckinpah, Slim Pickens, Katy Jurado, James Coburn, the dusty lawless streets of Durango, my first wife, my kids when they were small. For a second it all came back … it was that powerful. Bruce is a deep conscientious cat and the evidence of that was in the performance. He can get to your heart, my heart anyway.” (2015 BobDylan.com Q&A, Bill Flanagan)

 

To get a taste of the power that Dylan refers to, here is Bruce performing live in a Berlin cafe in 1995, supported by Wolfgang Niedecken and his band:

 

 

 

 

Dylan recorded ‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’ for the movie Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid ~ released in May 1973. The soundtrack album was released in July 1973.

 

8. Elvis Presley – ‘Tomorrow Is A Long Time’ 

 

“Elvis Presley recorded a song of mine. That’s the one recording I treasure the most… It was called ‘Tomorrow Is A Long Time.’ I wrote it but never recorded it.” (Dylan’s 1969 Rolling Stone interview).

 

Elvis’s version, which was included as one of three bonus tracks to his October 1966 Spinout album, follows:

 

 

 

 

This is perhaps the most well reported Dylan favourite. I can appreciate why Dylan treasured it so highly ~ it was, afterall, the one and only Elvis covering one of his songs.

 

However, Elvis wasn’t paying any direct tribute to Dylan in covering the song. The history suggests that Elvis was looking for some ‘filler’ to augment his Spinout soundtrack album from less than 20 minutes to a more acceptable 30 minutes in length.

 

Charlie McCoy, who provided guitar, bass & harmonica during the May 1966 recording sessions for Elvis’s How Great Thou Art album, had a few months earlier been providing similar support on Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde album. During the Elvis recording session, Charlie played Odetta’s 1965 Odetta Sings Dylan album and Elvis was taken by her version of ‘Tomorrow Is A Long Time’.

 

Elvis’s recording of ‘Tomorrow Is A Long Time’ was merely an afterthought and basically mimicked (note for note, verse for verse, musically, etherically and ‘hummingly‘) Odetta’s cover version. Ultimately Elvis did a four verse 5m:20s cover version of Odetta’s four verse 6m:20s cover version of Dylan’s three verse 2m:50s live version of ’Tomorrow Is A Long Time’.

 

It is quite probable that Elvis had no real knowledge of Dylan at the time. As Charlie McCoy has recounted around that time: ‘Dylan was practically unknown in Nashville’.

 

Prior to adding the song to his set list in 1978, Dylan had performed ‘Tomorrow Is A Long Time’ only once ~ at New York Town Hall on 12 April 1963. It is this live version that he eventually released on his 1971 Greatest Hits Volume II album. Since 1978, Dylan has performed the song a further fifty-nine times.

 

9. Joan Baez – ‘Farewell Angelina’ 

 

In late February 1991, on the eve of the release of The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991, Dylan was interviewed in Los Angeles by his publicist Elliot Mintz. One of the fifty-eight songs on the Bootleg Series Vol.1-3 was Dylan’s January 1965 Bringing It All Back Home outtake ‘Farewell Angelina’. When asked about Joan Baez’s cover of the song, Dylan’s reply was:

 

“Oh, it was wonderful, isn’t it?”

 

Of all the people that could have been the subject of ‘Farewell Angelina’, Baez seems the most likely suspect. This may well have been Dylan’s pre-emptive professional goodbye to Baez, with whom he had shared a stage and a bed whenever their professional paths crossed between May 1963 to April 1965.

 

Despite recording a studio version in January 1965, during the Bringing It All Back Home sessions, Dylan decided to leave the song in the ‘outtakes’ pile.

 

Nevertheless, the song found its way into Baez’s hands and for reasons best known to her, she decided to make this song her own. Baez debuted the song at the July 1965 Newport Folk Festival, several months after her relationship to Dylan had fizzled out. In October 1965, Baez released her cover of the song as the opening track on her 5^th studio album which was also titled Farewell Angelina (as if to emphasise the point).

 

Here is Baez’s version:

 

 

 

 

Dylan, for his part, never bothered with the song once it had been recorded as a studio outtake. In this respect, it is not totally clear to me whether Dylan’s response to Mintz’s question above is sincere.

 

10. John Doe – ‘Pressing On’

 

When Bill Flanagan asked Dylan what he thought of Doe’s cover of ‘Pressing On’ at the Musicares tribute, Dylan’s response was:

 

“A once in a lifetime recording.” (2015 BobDylan.com Q&A, Bill Flanagan) 

 

Actually, it was probably a twice in a lifetime recording. While Do get a brief cameo in the Musicares clip under Aaron Neville’s entry above, he also covered ‘Pressing On’ on the 2007 Todd Hayes screenplay and soundtrack I’m Not There. Here is that cover:

 

 

 

 

Dylan recorded ‘Pressing On’ on his 1980 Saved album.

 

11. Johnny Rivers – ‘Positively 4th Street’ 

 

In one of the few unsolicited ‘favourite covers’, here is what Dylan wrote about Johnny’s version of ‘Positively 4^th Street’:

 

‘Of all the versions of my recorded songs, the Johnny Rivers version of ‘Positively 4th Street’ was my favorite. It was obvious that we were from the same side of town, had been read the same citations, came from the same musical family and were cut from the same cloth. I liked his version better than mine. Most of the cover versions of my songs seem to take them out into left field somewhere, but Rivers’ version had the mandate down; the attitude and melodic sense to complete and surpass even the feeling that I had put into it. When I heard Johnny sing my song, it was obvious that life had the same external grip on him as it did me.’ (Dylan: Chronicles (2004) pp60-61).

 

 

 

 

Dylan recorded ‘Positively 4^th Street’ during the Highway 61 Revisited recording sessions in late July/early August 1965. Rather than include the song on the album, it was released as a single ~ peaking at #7 (US), #8 (UK), #13 (Netherlands) and #35 (Australia). For those who missed the single, the song was also included on Dylan’s March 1967 Greatest Hits album.

 

12. Neil Young – ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’

 

Neil performed ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ at the Musicares tribute to Dylan. Here is what Dylan said of Neil’s performance:

 

‘He’s been doing ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ for a while and he does it the way it should be done‘. (2015 BobDylan.com Q&A, Bill Flanagan).

 

Once again there is only a fragment of Neil’s performance on the Musicares clip under Aaron Neville’s entry above. However, here is Neil at Farm Aid in 2013:

 

 

 

 

Dylan is spot on saying that Neil has been doing ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ for a while. It all began with Crazy Horse in 1991, when they performed the song fifty three times in that year alone. A live version of ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ by Neil and Crazy Horse, accompanied by air raid sound effects, is included on their 1991 live Weld album.

 

Dylan recorded ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ way way back in July 1962 and it was released on his May 1963 Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan album. Dylan’s single of the song, released in August 1963, failed to chart on any chart across the world.

 

Peter, Paul & Mary’s cover, released in June 1963, peaked at #2 (US), #11 (Australia), #13 (UK) and #25 (Canada) and sold well in excess of 1,000,000 units, as well as launching the great majority of the 450+ covers that followed.

 

13. The Neville Brothers – ‘With God On Our Side’ 

 

Aaron Neville, mentioned at entry 2 in this article, is one quarter of famed US R&B/soul/funk/gospel group The Neville Brothers. His siblings are Art, Charles and Cyril.

 

In early 1989, Canadian record producer and musician, Daniel Lanois was working with The Neville Brothers on their 4^th studio album Yellow Moon. The album was released in March 1989 and included two Dylan covers: ‘With God On Our Side’ and ‘The Ballad Of Hollis Brown’.

 

Once commitments with The Neville Brothers were complete, Lanois turned his production skills to working with Dylan on his Oh Mercy album, which was recorded between February – April 1989 and released in September 1989.

 

On January 18, 2021, Lanois was interviewed by Marc Maron in Episode 1193 of his WTF Interview series. Lanois was asked what Dylan thought after hearing the Neville Brothers recording of Yellow Moon. Lanois recounts that Dylan said:

 

“Now that sounds like a record!” 

 

Here is The Neville Brothers’ version of ‘With God On Our Side’:

 

 

 

 

In this version the verses were changed from the original, with Dylan’s agreement. Two verses were excluded ~ those dealing with the ‘Second World War’ and ‘Chemical Dust’, and Aaron wrote and added a new verse dealing with the ‘Vietnam War’. In some subsequent ‘live’ performance of the song, Dylan has included the ‘Vietnam War’ verse.

 

14. Richie Havens – ‘Just Like a Woman’ 

 

Richie Havens was a contemporary of Dylan’s, working the Greenwich Village scene in the early-mid 1960’s. After signing on with Albert Grossman, Richie secured a record deal with Verve Folkway and released his debut album Mixed Bag in late 1966.

 

The debut album contained a mixed bag of covers, including ‘Eleanor Rigby’, ‘San Francisco Bay Blues’, ‘High Flyin’ Bird’ and Dylan’s recently released ‘Just Like A Woman’.

 

On 20 April 1975, Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul & Mary fame), interviewed Dylan on her Mary Travers And Friends radio show which was broadcast out of Los Angeles on KNX-FM. After canvassing a broad range of subjects, Mary turned her attention to covers of ‘Just Like A Woman’. While Dylan questioned why female artists would cover the song, given the nature of the lyrics, he was more positive about a cover from Richie Havens:

 

“‘Just Like A Woman’ made sense coming from Richie.” 

 

Here is what Dylan is referring to ~ although this cover of ‘Just Like A Woman’ is from Richie’s extraordinary performance at the Madison Square Garden 30th Anniversary Concert in October 1992:

 

 

 

 

Dylan recorded ‘Just Like A Woman’ on his June 1966 Blonde On Blonde album.

 

15. Tom Jones – ‘What Good Am I?’

 

When Bill Flanagan asked Dylan what he thought of Tom’s covers of ‘What Good Am I?’ on his 2010 Praise & Blame album, Dylan’s one word response was:

 

“Incredible.” (2015 BobDylan.com Q&A, Bill Flanagan)

 

Here is Tom performing a 2013 ‘in concert’ version:

 

 

 

 

Dylan recorded ‘What Good Am I?’ on his 1989 Oh Mercy album.

 

Much like my earlier comment under the Bonne Raitt heading, I don’t put much weight on this necessarily being a Dylan ‘favourite’ based on a single word comment to a very specific question ~ however, there is no question that Tom does an excellent live and studio version of the song.

 

Trivia: In a career that began sixty one years ago (1965), Tom has released over forty albums and covered almost 500 songs. It could be argued that he ‘discovered’ Dylan’s anthology quite late, recording his first Dylan cover ~ ‘What Good Am I?’ ~ in 2010. Since then, he has offered his vocal cords to: ‘When The Deal Goes Down’ (bonus track on the US re-issue of the 2012 Spirit In The Room album; ‘One More Cup Of Coffee’ (track 8 on the 2021 Surrounded By Time album; and ‘Not Dark Yet’ (a non-charting November 2021 single).

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Here ends the songs listed in the Maplethorpe/Far Out Magazine article.

 

But wait, what about……

 

While writing up this article and doing research for another article covering Dylan’s career in late 1965, I came across a press conference that was staged in KQED TV studio, San Francisco on 3 December 1965.

 

By early December 1965, the world of ‘Dylan cover songs’ was gaining serious momentum across the planet, including:

 

• ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’: over 70 cover versions across multiple countries and languages, highlighted by Peter, Paul & Mary’s 1963 international top 10 hit;

• ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’: over 30 version by artists across multiple countries, highlighted by The Byrds 1965 international #1 hit;

• ‘All I Really Want To Do’: nine US-based covers with Cher peaking at US #15 and The Byrds with US #40;

• ‘It Ain’t Me Babe’: over 20 covers, with The Turtles leading the pack with a top 10 international hit;

• ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’: fifteen covers performed by artists across multiple countries;

• ‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right’: 40 covers, with interest shown by Johnny Cash, Cher, Jose Feliciano.

 

When Dylan was asked how he felt about hearing covers of his songs, he replied ‘it’s a heavenly kind of thing’.

 

More directly, and pertinent to this article on Dylan’s favourite cover songs, Dylan was asked:

 

‘Of all the people who record your compositions, who do you feel does the most justice to what you are trying to say?’.

 

Dylan’s considered response: ‘Manfred Mann…they’ve done 3 or 4 and each one has been right in context of what the song is all about.’

 

Although Manfred Mann and the subsequent Manfred Mann’s Earth Band have been champions of Dylan cover songs over the modern era (i.e. eleven Dylan cover songs between 1965 – 1998), as at 3 December 1965, Manfred Mann had, in fact, only covered two Dylan songs: ‘With God On Our Side’ (June 1965 EP) and ‘If You Gotta Go, Go Now’ (September 1965 single).

 

Here’s the cover version of ‘If You Gotta Go, Go Now’ which took less than four weeks to peak at #2 on the UK singles chart:

 

 

 

 

Dylan premiered ‘If You Gotta Go, Go Now’ in concert at the New York Philharmonic on 31 October 1964 and it remained on the set list for a further four North American concerts in late 1964. Several studio versions were recorded in mid January 1965 (during the Bringing It All Back Home sessions) however they were placed in the ‘outtake’ pile.

 

Despite the lack of traction with a studio/album version, Dylan obviously enjoyed singing the song in concert, and it stayed on his set list for a further fourteen concerts in 1965, including all eight concerts that made up his May 1965 English tour. It was in this context ~ Royal Albert Hall on 9 May 1965 ~ that Manfred Mann would have heard ‘If You Gotta Go, Go Now’ for the first time, as they sat in the audience along with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Donovan, Marianne Faithfull and numerous other dignitaries of the British music scene.

 

What is not clear is how, having heard ‘If You Gotta Go, Go Now’ in concert among a fifteen-song set list of classic acoustic Dylan, the management wheels turned whereby Manfred Mann acquired a copy of the outtake tape to this unreleased song.

 

By the way, Manfred Mann’s cover of ‘If You Gotta Go, Go Now’ peaked at #4 in Australia, Ireland & South Africa.

 

Concluding comments:

 

There are over 10,000 officially verified commercially available covers of Dylan songs ~ ranging between over 460 versions of ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ to a solitary cover of ‘Wiggle Wiggle’. If we were to include one-off performances that were not commercially available (e.g. Musicares, Grammy, Farm Aid, Outlaw Music, Late Night TV, TV Talent Shows, Live Concerts by known and unknown artists) but nevertheless retained in digital format somewhere in the ‘cloud’, then the number of Dylan cover songs is in excess of 105,000. {Note: there is a web site that contains such a list}.

 

Picking ‘favourites’ requires knowing who are the ‘contenders’. For example, those who have only heard Dylan covers via Australian mainstream radio would be limited to around 20 cover songs and rating favourites would be easy.

 

For the fifteen songs listed above and drawn solely from Dale Maplethorpe’s article, the Dylan favourite ‘bias’ comes primarily from the interviewers questioning, when the interviews took place and the recording, retaining and publishing of Dylan’s responses.

 

In the end, it doesn’t make one iota of difference ~ to each his or her own ~ it has, however, provided a lens, blurry though it may be, to showcase a number of Dylan cover songs that may otherwise have never seen the light of day in this ‘International Style’ series of articles.

 

The next time we return to the ‘International Style’ series, the lens will be focused clearly on France and on those French artists who took a shine to Dylan’s anthology and put their accented voice to his lyrics.

 

 

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