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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I'm Not There: Original Soundtrack
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Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?: The Hold Steady are an American rock band, originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota ~ a place frequented by a young Dylan, before he moved to New York and began his extraordinary career. The Hold Steady have released 8 studio albums over tyhe period 2004 - 2021.
At CD2, track 8 on the 34 track/2CD soundtrack to the Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There", The Hold Steady do a wonderful cover of Dylan's 'Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?'.
The soundtrack is full of exceptional covers of Dylan songs that cover his career from 1963 - 1997; performed by a smorgasbord of exceptional talent ~ and I make special mention of John Doe's interpretation of "Pressing On".
Dylan recorded "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" on two separate occasions:
i. 30 July 1965, with backing by Bloomfield, Kooper, Griffin, Gregg & Brooks;
ii. 30 November 1965, with backing by The Band (the known as The Hawks).
Neither versions were included in studio albums at the time, but the latter version was released as a single, with 'Highway 61 Revisited' on the 'b' side ~ the single peaked in early 1966 at #58 (US); #17 (UK); & #23 (Canada). The latter version also circulated on an official bootleg titled "Now Your Mouth Cries Whoops" and was officially (belatedly) released on the 1978 'Masterpieces (album 2, side 1, track 3)'; the 1985 'Biograph' (album 4, side 1, track 1); and the 2015 'The Bootleg Series Vol 12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966' (CD2, Track 3).
Dylan performed 'Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?' on only one occasion ~ Carnegie Hall, NY on 1 October 1965.
"With his businesslike anger and his bloodhounds that kneel/If he needs a third eye he just grows it" [First added to this chart: 05/24/2022]

Year of Release:

2007

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13 charts

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Girl From The North Country
Soundtrack

The Original Broadway Cast

Duquesne Whistle: Conor McPherson's musical production features 19 songs spanning Dylan's entire career. At track 18, Todd Almond, in his character role of 'Elias', leads an exuberant Broadway cast in a high energy version of Dylan's 'Duquesne Whistle'.
Dylan co-wrote 'Duquesne Whistle' with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter ~ in what may well be a left over from their collaborative efforts for the 2009n 'Together Through Life' album.
Dylan recorded 'Duquesne Whistle' between January - March 2012 and it was released as the opening track to his September 2012 'Tempest' album ~ an album that peaked at #3 on the US Billboard & UK charts. The song was also released as a single in August 2012, reaching a modest #60 in the US.
Dylan has performed 'Duquesne Whistle' almost 380 times in concert between its premiere on 26 June 2013 at Cruzan Ampitheatre, West palm Beach, FL and its swansong on 22 August 2018 at Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Newcastle, Australia.
'Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowing/Blowing like she's blowing right on time' [First added to this chart: 05/24/2022]

Year of Release:

2021

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3 charts

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None

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None

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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%
Bryan Ferry	1	1%
Bobby Vee	1	1%
Carrie Myers + The Proper Way	1	1%
Steve Harley	1	1%
Dave Van Ronk	1	1%
Bettye LaVette	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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