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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Happy Together

Leningrad Cowboys

Knockin' On Heavens Door: On this 12 track album covering iconic songs such as 'Stairway To Heaven', 'Sweet Home Alabama' & 'California Girls', Finnish band, Leningrad Cowboys ~ with the support of The Alexandrov Red Army Ensemble ~, do an epic 6m 23s cover of Dylan's iconic 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door', Their version is a more than adequate substitute for the well known Guns N Roses cover.
Written for the soundtrack to the 1973 movie 'Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid' ~ a movie where Dylan played the role of 'Alias' ~ Dylan recorded 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door' in February 1973 and it was released (side 2, track 2) on his July 1973 "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid" album/soundtrack.
A concert favourite, beginning at Chicago Stadium, Chicago on 4 January 1974 and ending at PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ on 10 August 2003, the song has been performed over 350 times.
'It's getting dark, too dark for me to see/I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door' [First added to this chart: 07/22/2022]

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1994

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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%
Joan Baez	1	1%
Mary Lee's Corvette	1	1%
Sheryl Crow	1	1%
Richie Havens	1	1%
Valdemar	1	1%
Bryan Ferry	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%

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