Dylan covers 1: top 100 Dylan cover songs by Moondance

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This chart reveals/uncovers the incredibly rich and diverse realm of Bob Dylan cover songs. One estimate puts the number of Dylan cover songs to be over 105,000; however my own research suggests that the number of verified, publicly available number of Dylan cover songs is closer to 10,000! In any event, to make a chart of my top 100 Dylan cover songs is both hard & easy.
To fully acknowledge and represent this diversity and to cover Dylan's entire 60 year recording career, I set certain parameters:
* Limit any artist to only one cover song;
* Limit any Dylan tribute album to only one cover song ~ Note: the number/diversity of Dylan tribute albums discovered during the making of this chart has amazed me. Despite having listened to over 50 tribute album, including the 30 tribute albums listed in this chart, I have only scratched the surface {elsewhere on the BEA site I am aware of a user who has a 'top 100 chart of 100% Dylan cover albums'; and during my research, I stumbled across a website that listed over 400 albums comprising between 50% - 100% Dylan cover songs};
* For Dylan albums with only a small number of original songs (eg 'Bob Dylan'; 'Greatest Hits Vol II'; 'Self Portrait'; 'Masterpieces'; 'Knocked Out Loaded' etc), this chart includes at least one cover song to showcase those albums;
* For each of the 27 Dylan albums that contain all or mostly original songs, this chart includes between two - four cover songs with the exception of 'Under The Red Sky' ~ for which finding quality cover songs proved a challenge and thus only one cover song is included in this chart;
* In other words, every Dylan album that includes, in part or in full, original songs is referenced in this chart (at last count, that added up to 40 Dylan albums);
* Some songs written/co-written by Dylan but never recorded by Dylan have been included in this chart (eg Clapton, Goffin, O'Keefe);
* Dylan side projects (eg Traveling Wilbury's, movie soundtracks) have also been included in this chart, to give this chart the most comprehensive feel that I could put together.
The order of the chart listing will be chronological - based on the release date of the corresponding contemporaneous studio album or the recording date for those songs that were released much later on compilation albums (Greatest Hits VolII, Masterpieces), the 1975 Basement Tapes or the various Bootleg Series albums.
The only exception to the chronological order is the #1 entry by Linda Mason, which is recognised as the first album to be released that was 100% dedicated to covering the songs of Bob Dylan.
The data in this chart - eg number of times Dylan has performed a particular song in concert is as at June 2023.

Chart updated: 03/20/2024 10:45
(Created: 05/22/2022 06:40).
Chart size: 100 albums.

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Richie Havens

Just Like A Woman: Richie Havens is a US singer & guitarist with over 20 studio albums to his credit ~ released between 1966 to 2008. Richie died on 22 April 2013, aged 72.
At the penultimate track of his debut album, 'Mixed Bag' (sandwiched between San Francisco Bay Blues and Eleanor Rigby), Richie does the most exquisite rendition of Dylan's classic "Just Like A Woman". The song gets its unique intensity from Richie's 'open E' tuning technique and his superb vocal quality. Some 26 years later, Richie did an equally stunning version of this song at Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert ~ CD1, track 13.
Note: Richie is perhaps most remembered for his role at the original 1969 Woodstock where he played an extended opening set to allow artists to reach the venue due to traffic deadlock on the highway in ~ his performance of 'Freedom' is on the soundtrack album (side 1, track 3) and is also used over the closing credits for Ang Lee's 2009 'Taking Woodstock' movie.
Dylan recorded 'Just Like A Woman' on 8 March 1966 and it was released (side 2, track 4) on his June 1966 'Blonde On Blonde' album. The song is also included on most of Dylan's compilation/greatest hits albums.
Dylan first performed 'Just Like A Woman' in concert on 5 March 1966 at Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum, Jacksonville, FL and it has remained on the set list more often than not ever since - having been performed over 880 times. It was also one of the 5 songs performed by Dylan at his appearance at Concert For Bangla Desh (1 August 1971). The final performance on the song was on 26 November 2010 at Borgata Events Center, Atlantic City, NJ.
'Nobody feels any pain/Tonight as I stand inside the rain' [First added to this chart: 05/23/2022]

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1967

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33 charts

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Dylan covers 1: top 100 Dylan cover songs composition

Decade	Albums	%

1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	0	0%
1960s	15	15%
1970s	14	14%
1980s	4	4%
1990s	14	14%
2000s	28	28%
2010s	14	14%
2020s	11	11%

Artist	Albums	%

Various Artists	9	9%
David Gray	1	1%
Richard Clapton	1	1%
Shane Howard	1	1%
Mike Bloomfield / Al Kooper / Steve Stills	1	1%
Bic Runga	1	1%
Maria Muldaur	1	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	50	50%
	24	24%
	10	10%
	7	7%
	3	3%
	2	2%
	1	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	90	90%
Yes	10	10%

Live?	Albums	%
No	88	88%
Yes	12	12%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	98	98%
Yes	2	2%

Dylan covers 1: top 100 Dylan cover songs chart changes

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Title	Source	Type	Published
Albums of Dylan covers	arnellarsen	custom chart	2023
Dylan covers 2a: Complete Albums by Individual Artists	Moondance	custom chart	2024
Dylan covers 5: UK (Major Artists)	Moondance	custom chart	2024
Dylan covers 4a:US (Major Artists)	Moondance	custom chart	2024
Top 38 Music Albums of 1968	stevengnz	1968 year chart	2023
Woodstock	Johnnyo	custom chart	2022
Best Album Ever	ZigZag		1971
Covers albums	Johnnyo	custom chart	2024
Top 20 Greatest Music Albums	MojoRisin69		2019
Top 19 Music Albums of 1968	buzzdainer	1968 year chart	2019

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