I am actually a singer with a good ear for music - you can check me out on youtube.com  - type Doug Pinson...that's me.  So to say I'm not listening is objective.  I am listening - his singing makes me crawl.  That is not the real word I wanted to use, but I want to be respectful.  Nothing lewd, but I cannot stand his singing style.  But others appreciate his singing, and I appreciate that.  I will never knock someone else for liking his singing.  It is a personal preference.  But I have told people before I would rather have my teeth drilled without novocaine than sit and listen to him sing for an hour.  It is nauseating to me, literally. 
There is one song I did listen to and liked and he was singing on it - I think it was "Liberty" or something along those lines, basic blues, and it was on a "Touched by an Angel" or "City of Angels" soundtrack, I believe.  I did like that one.

[quote]Bob Dylan's singing literally makes me crawl. [/quote]

[i]Literally[/i]? Blimey!

The Jim James/Calexico cover of "Goin' to Acapulco" is especially haunting (one of the better recent covers in my books).  And I'll love anything Johnny Cash records—"Mama You Been On My Mind" included—but it doesn't compare to some of the live duets between Dylan and Baez, which have just the right frantic tone about them.  Some of the material from Masked and Anonymous wasn't bad, either.

Are there any others here that also use Spotify? Sadly, Bob seems to have removed most of his originals from their database - but there are a lot of covers available.

Anyway, I created this collaborative playlist for good Dylan covers - so those with spotify can add to it

I added

3x Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - by José Feliciano, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash

One Too Many Mornings - Totta Näslund

Mr Tambourine Man - Band, The World (not sure the info is right though - sounds like the Byrd's version to me, but I'm probably wrong...)

and a swedish 'translation' of One Too Many Mornings that I stumbled upon in the search list. Mitt inre är i uppror av Dan Tillberg, som tydligen gjort en hel skiva med dylantolkningar. 
Anyway, it's not a bad effort from an artist virtually no one remembers anymore..

And finally Cash's version of Mama, You've Been On My Mind

Feel free to add more good Dylan covers!

http://open.spotify.com/user/southwillrise/playlist/3FdL2TS5Ge9PmvTTz2xxy5

MNb wrote on 01/09/10 at 21:03:12:


Simplicity is a good quality when it comes to music.

Stigma wrote on 01/10/10 at 21:34:13:


it's simply empirical experience and valid for Bob only!

In my opinion, Bob's original is always the best version. Even himself can't improve later on. Especially his early albums, before he found god, are almost all on my personal list of Perfect Albums. 

And almost all of his later albums contain at least one or two songs that made it worth buying - though I'm not all that fond of his blues inspired last few albums... 

However, Bob has done some good versions of other's songs that one sometimes just happen to find by accident, for example: My Blue Eyed Jane (on a Tribute to Jimmie Rodgers) and  I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind (on A Tribute to Hank Williams)