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Full Dylan album covered – Street Legal

Posted on by Hallgeir Olsen

Bob Dylan’s Street-Legal covered

Street-Legal is the eighteenth studio album by Bob Dylan, released on June 15, 1978 by Columbia Records. The album was a serious musical departure for Dylan, who uses a large pop-rock band—complete with female backing vocalists—for the first time. Not his most critically acclaimed album, but I know a lot of people who loves it dearly (myself among them).

The originals are better, I agree, but I love to hear what other artists can do with such great material.

My favourites here are Ian Hunter, Patti Smith and Jerry Garcia.

 

Changing of the guards – Patti Smith:

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The Flying Burrito Brothers – To Ramona – The Best Dylan Covers

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The Flying Burrito Bros – To Ramona – The Best Dylan Covers

 

To Ramona is a folk waltz written by Bob Dylan for his fourth studio album,  Another Side of Bob Dylan. The melody is taken from traditional Mexican folk music. The song is one of the many on the album to highlight the more personal, and less political, side of Dylan’s songwriting that would become evermore prominent in the future. The song also makes many allusions to Dylan’s personal relationship with Joan Baez, at the time of its composition and subsequent release.

The Flying Burrito Bros did a sublime version of To Ramona on their eponymous third album.

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Buddy Miller – With God on our side – The Best Dylan Covers

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Buddy Miller – With God on our side – The Best Dylan Covers

With God on Our Side was released as the third track Bob Dylan’s 1964 album The Times They Are A-Changin’. Dylan first performed the song during his debut at The Town Hall in New York City on April 12, 1963. Dylan is known to sing the song only rarely in concert.

Buddy Miller recorded the song for his 2004 album Universal United House of Prayer. 

Universal United House of Prayer is Buddy Miller’s fifth solo album, and his first for New West Records. The album appeared for one week and reached No. 64 on theBillboard Top Country Albums chart. It received the 2004 Americana Music Award for Album of the Year for 2004, and contains the Mark Heard-penned song “Worry Too Much”, which won the award for Song of the Year that same year.

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Billy Bragg sings Bob Dylan – Happy Birthday Billy Bragg

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]“Yes to dance beneath a diamond sky with one hand waving free…” for this alone Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize
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Stephen William “Billy” Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, with lyrics that mostly span political or romantic themes. His music is heavily centred on bringing about change and involving the younger generation in activist causes.

Lay Down Your Weary Tune

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Lay down your weary tune, lay down
Lay down the song you strum
And rest yourself ‘neath the strength of strings
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Two great Bob Dylan cover albums from 2020

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These two albums are very good no matter if you see them as ordinary releases or as cover albums. How there could be two Bob Dylan cover album of this quality in one year is unbelievable. Continue reading “Two great Bob Dylan cover albums from 2020” →

Watkins Family Hour – Going Going Gone – The Best Dylan Covers

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Watkins Family Hour – Going, Going, Gone – The Best Dylan Covers

 

“Going, Going, Gone” is a song by Bob Dylan. It was released in 1974 on the album Planet Waves. The song is in the key of F major and deals with the themes of reflection and suicide. Bob Dylan is accompanied by The Band.

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