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Hey Listeners,
Just because the new Bob Dylan Center opened on May 10th in Tulsa, OK and because Bob’s 81st birthday was May 24th and because there are two new fantastic releases featuring Dylan covers – tonight it’s all Dylan covers. There are hundreds – maybe thousands of Dylan covers – but I picked 25 (might only get to 23) that show the wide variety of artists that have covered Dylan from all sorts of music genres.
We’ll kick the show off with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s new release, Dirt Does Dylan (and where tonight’s show borrows its title) and then play the Dylan cover from Mavis Staples and Levon Helm’s recent release of a 2012 session at Helm’s studio in upstate New York. Lots of great tracks – for Dylan fans and everyone else.
I’ll be back on the 20th of this month with part 2 of this celebration featuring tracks from artists (and there were many) that were heralded as The Next Dylan.
Thanks for listening. Enjoy.
The Haberdasher
The Times They Are A-Changin' (feat. Rosanne Cash, Steve Earle, Jason Isbell & The War and Treaty) Dirt Does Dylan MRI Move Along Train Carry Me Home Anti/Epitaph My Back Pages Younger Than Yesterday (Reissue Edition with Bonus Tracks) Columbia/Legacy Sweetheart Like You Trail Three Music Road Records Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine (Live) 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde (Live) Old Crow Medicine Show / Columbia Nashville Tombstone Blues Red On Blonde Sugar Hill Records If You Gotta Go Big City Blues New West Records Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You A Tribute to Bob Dylan - Whatever Colors You Have in Your Mind Darrow Just Like a Woman Just Like a Woman: Nina Simone Sings Classic Songs of the '60s RCA/Legacy Lay Lady Lay (Live at the Bitter End, New York City, NY - 1972) Givin' It Back Epic/Legacy I Pity the Poor Immigrant Hidden Treasures of Taj Mahal Columbia/Legacy I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (feat. Gloria Jones) Dylan's Gospel Ode Records Tangled Up In Blue (Live) Jerry Garcia Band (Live) Round Records Simple Twist of Fate Blonde On The Tracks Tiny Ghost Records Blind Willie Mctell Bob's Back Pages: A Night of Bob Dylan Songs Highway 20 Records It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Life Is Brief: The Music of Bob Dylan Green Mind Records To Ramona Hangin' On By a Thread Warner Records/Nashville The Ballad of Hollis Brown Swamp Music: The Complete Monument Recordings Rhino/Warner Records Highway 61 Revisited From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings Yep Roc Records Fourth Time Around I'm Not There (Music From The Motion Picture - Original Soundtrack) Columbia/Legacy I'll Keep It With Mine Chelsea Girl Polydor Desolation Row Train Home Shout!