Albums of Dylan covers
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101. The Bob Dylan Song Book - Bob Dylan Special Tribute Recording. +Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead - Dylan And The Dead (1989). (...2 V.A. albums released by (Dylan's) Egyptian Records: "The Song Of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute" (1997), & (2011) "The Lost Notebooks Of Hank Williams"). & Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Interactive" (1995) - an interactive CD-ROM released by Graphix Zone/Sony Music Entertainment (Egyptian Records/SonyColumbia/Third Man Records). Special "Thank-You" to Moondance NSW, Tom S., Vidar V. & www.covermesongs.com. This Chart (Top 100) - as of June 11th 2022 - and updated June 13th 2022 arnellarsen.

• Chart updated: 12/09/2023 00:45
• (Created: 05/29/2022 11:31).
• Chart size: 98 albums.

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Lo And Behold 

 Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint

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Produced by Manfred Mann. #12 - "Cover Me" (The Chart) - The Twenty Best Bob Dylan Covers Albums: Review: "Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint’s Lo and Behold from 1972 is one of the all-time great Dylan covers records. It’s also composed entirely of rarely-covered Dylan songs, a blend of early folk cuts he left off his albums and some Basement Tapes deep cuts. “Sign On The Cross” is one of the later, a Basement Tapes song that didn’t land on the actual Basement Tapes album. CDMF’s sound is clearly modeled after The Band’s, but they find their own arrangements and ideas even on the songs The Band originally played on. Most of their stuff is uptempo, almost Southern rock, but "Sign On The Cross" draws from roots-gospel, with a plaintive lead vocal from Dennis Coulson." www.covermesongs.com: Deep cut: all of them! [First added to this chart: 05/29/2022]

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

5 charts

Rank in 1972:

None

Rank in 1970s:

None

Average Rating:

 74 (3 votes)

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John Wesley Harding 

 Thea Gilmore

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#09 - "Cover Me" (The Chart) - The Twenty Best Bob Dylan Covers Albums. www.covermesongs.com review: Thea Gilmore is a well-respected British singer hovering between spiky singer-songwriter and folk: another of her projects was to provide voice and tunes for some posthumously discovered Sandy Denny songs. To celebrate the then 70th birthday celebrations of Bob Dylan, she covered John Wesley Harding in its entirety. But this is so much more than mere reproduction. In fact, with the original JWH being somewhat underproduced, with a slightly distant Dylan, Gilmore here fleshes out many of the songs, coating them with a more attractive sheen than before. This is no better demonstrated than on the original album’s best-known track, “All Along The Watchtower,” which eschews totally any temptation to replay either Dylan’s own version or any other better known, beyond clearly demonstrating she has both heard and studied each of them. There are a range of styles, from acoustic strummers to all-out rockers, the guitar of Robbie McIntosh combining, at times, with Gilmore’s voice to give a whole Chrissie Hynde/Pretenders vibe. Deep cut: “The Ballad of Frankie Lee & Judas Priest” (from John Wesley Harding, clearly, but as only one other cover exists, from Jerry Garcia and David Grisman) [First added to this chart: 05/29/2022]

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

5 charts

Rank Score:

5

Rank in 2011:

1,996

Rank in 2010s:

20,452

Overall Rank:

79,152

Average Rating:

 73 (1 vote)

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Don't Think Twice It's Alright 

 Barbara Dickson

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#15 - "Cover Me" (The Chart) - The Twenty Best Bob Dylan Covers Albums. www.covermesongs.com review: Another possibly overly pure voice, Barbara Dickson has had a strange trajectory. She started off in the Edinburgh folk clubs alongside Gerry Rafferty, then found greater acclaim after being sucked into the London stage network, working with Andrew Lloyd Webber amongst others. Thereafter she always deemed a bit twee and conventional, yet she has a distinctive voice, well used in interestingly different arrangements than most interpreters. When this album comes off, it is a triumph; where it doesn’t, as in the opening title track, it becomes a bit self-effacing, but still worth it for the successes. Echoes of Scottish trad mix with a competent production that brings in a veritable kitchen sink of somewhat dated styles, the ’80s synths sometimes strangely reminiscent of the music (if not the vocals) on Marianne Faithfull’s Broken English. Gerry Rafferty guests on “The Times They Are A-Changin’.” A surprising little gem of an album. Deep cut: “Oxford Town” (from The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan). [First added to this chart: 06/02/2022]

Year of Release:

1992

Appears in:

4 charts

Rank Score:

2

Rank in 1992:

1,523

Rank in 1990s:

17,355

Average Rating:

 72 (1 vote)

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The Dylan Project 

 Steve Gibbons

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(1998). #08 - "Cover Me" (The Chart) - The Twenty Best Bob Dylan Covers Albums. www.covermesongs.com review: It seems against the spirit of this site to be including an out-and-out covers band, that is, a band purely existing to pay tribute to another. But an exception is here needed, down in part to the pedigree of the musicians, and in part to the astonishing near-Dylan that singer Steve Gibbons produces. Of course, he sounds nothing like Dylan, or at least not like any recent Dylan, as well as being in a slightly higher register. Plus, this album precedes his taking a band, with the same name, out on the road. And for any disappointed by the odd intonations of modern day Bob, or even erratic live arrangements, this is a package that can present peak period Dylan in a live setting, reliably, night after night. Gibbons, himself with his own pedigree to celebrate (world famous in Birmingham, UK, for over fifty years), has always sung the odd Dylan song in his own band. The rest of the project here is made up by the current rhythm section of Fairport Convention, abetted by PJ Wright on guitars & steel and by John “Rabbit” Bundrick on keyboards. Their embellishments add rather than detract, presenting well-remembered songs in new settings, straying never that far from how your memory is expecting. Gibbons now splits his time between solo shows, his own eponymous band, and this Project, a firm festival favorite. There is one Gibbons original on the record, but I challenge anyone to spot it, unprompted. [First added to this chart: 06/01/2022]

Year of Release:

1998

Appears in:

4 charts

Rank Score:

0

Rank in 1998:

2,664

Rank in 1990s:

24,110

Average Rating:

 73 (1 vote)

Comments:

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Songs Of Bob Dylan 

 Joan Osborne

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From covermesongs.com: ... the excellent Dylan’s Gospel and the intriguing Dylan Jazz. Finally, this is a Top Twenty list, squeezing out many further worthy gems like Joan Osborne’s Songs of Bob Dylan and Robbie Fulks’ 16, a track-by-track take on Street Legal that has some of the best individual songs, frustratingly alongside some decidedly not, perhaps due to the songs and not the singer. [First added to this chart: 05/31/2022]

Year of Release:

2017

Appears in:

4 charts

Rank Score:

1

Rank in 2017:

4,172

Rank in 2010s:

39,489

Average Rating:

 71 (2 votes)

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Blonde On The Tracks 

 Emma Swift

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#04 - "Cover Me" (The Chart) - The Twenty Best Bob Dylan Covers Albums. www.covermesongs.com review: The most recent album on this list, thus the only one with anything from "Rough And Rowdy Ways", "Blonde On The Tracks" is an astonishingly constructed collection, betraying the age of Emma Swift, in that any song in the catalog gets equal billing, all there for her taking. With a breathy purity of tone, Swift often applies brakes to already slow songs, drawing extra pathos with the staggered delivery, with echoes, to my ears, of how Hope Sandoval/Mazzy Star might tackle the songbook. The arrangements shine with nuanced jangle, sweeps of steel and organ breaking out at integral moments, providing a cushion for Swift’s voice to slowly embalm you. In time this selection may seep slowly higher in the pantheon, it’s that good. She is Australian, that distance from the source maybe a helping her avoid repeating any expected correctness of rendition, with guitars courtesy Robyn Hitchcock, himself no stranger to reinterpreting Dylan. Deep cut: “The Man In Me” (New Morning). [First added to this chart: 05/29/2022]

Year of Release:

2020

Appears in:

8 charts

Rank Score:

5

Rank in 2020:

1,966

Rank in 2020s:

9,317

Overall Rank:

75,109

Average Rating:

 73 (5 votes)

Comments:

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Dylan's Gospel 

 The Brothers & Sisters Of Los Angeles

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Produced by Lou Adler. From covermesongs.com: ... the excellent Dylan’s Gospel and the intriguing Dylan Jazz. Finally, this is a Top Twenty list, squeezing out many further worthy gems like Joan Osborne’s Songs of Bob Dylan and Robbie Fulks’ 16, a track-by-track take on Street Legal that has some of the best individual songs, frustratingly alongside some decidedly not, perhaps due to the songs and not the singer. [First added to this chart: 05/29/2022]

Year of Release:

1969

Appears in:

5 charts

Rank in 1969:

None

Rank in 1960s:

None

Average Rating:

 72 (1 vote)

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Dylanesque 

 Bryan Ferry

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#01 - "Cover Me" (The Chart) - The Twenty Best Bob Dylan Covers Albums. www.covermesongs.com review: Okay, I accept, maybe not quite who you were expecting. But I submit that no one delivers better and nowhere is there a greater love of the songbook, the respect and understanding of the songs beyond compare, the delivery anything other than a slavish regurgitation of the originals. With a vocal style as immediately recognizable as the tributee’s, Bryan Ferry has never swayed from his thrall to Bob, even as Roxy Music drove a path far removed from singer-songwriter. The clues, however, were there, with “Hard Rain” opening his debut solo disc, and the creeping tendency for covers to appear on latter-day Roxy releases. I suspect many had begun to write Ferry off, as this record appeared, it instead a delight. It seems it wasn’t even planned, it taking shape independently from the interminable sessions for whichsever record he was supposedly working on at the time, put together in the downtime. The energy of the performances is a blast. Sounding like much more fun than the usual relentless remakes and remodels of his own material, the extensive list of contributors manage to give the impression of being a single band, rather than a set of disparate performances. And what a band it is, with guitarists Robin Trower and Chris Spedding, Paul Carrack on keys, Andy Newmark on drums, and Guy Pratt on bass, all present for at least some of the time. Even Eno gets to add a trademark bleep or two. (And guess where Trower pops up, one of the more accomplished players in the school of Hendrix?) Ferry sounds positively relaxed, many of his archer affectations absent, even if the quaver, gentler now, is still center stage. Dylanesque rolls, romping through a mainly usual culprits selection, but restores vim to many an overfamiliar warhorse, Ferry himself included. Deep cut: “Gates of Eden” (Bringing It All Back Home) [First added to this chart: 05/29/2022]

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

9 charts

Rank Score:

25

Rank in 2007:

630

Rank in 2000s:

6,029

Overall Rank:

32,049

Average Rating:

 72 (21 votes)

Comments:

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Live At Cropredy Festival 1999 
Live

 The Dylan Project

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[First added to this chart: 05/31/2022]

Year of Release:

2001

Appears in:

3 charts

Rank in 2001:

None

Rank in 2000s:

None

Average Rating:

 73 (1 vote)

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Off The Grid ~ Doin' It Dylan 

 The Charlie Daniels Band

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#10 - "Cover Me" (The Chart) - The Twenty Best Bob Dylan Covers Albums. www.covermesongs.com review: With a lot more to him than songs about the devil playing fiddle, Charlie Daniels’ legacy stretches back to the ’50s and extends to the near-present, still active musically until his death last summer. His links with Dylan are many and various, not least with his friendship with early Dylan producer Bob Johnson. Indeed, Daniels himself played on the trio of Nashville records Bob made between 1969 and 1970 (Self Portrait, Nashville Skyline, and New Morning) before his success with his eponymous band. A perpetual and immediately recognizable figure on the Sounds of the South movement, Daniels’ style of fiddle-led country rock and his constant touring allied him into the jamband fraternity, even as his politics became progressively right of center. Whilst Wikipedia offers about three dozen recordings to his name, his own website lists myriad more, right up until (and beyond) his death last year. Off the Grid, as you might imagine, is more respectful of the melodies than the words, his vocals a rough and ready instrument. But the country arrangements, a delightful stew of fiddles, dobroes, honkytonk piano and similar, make this anything other than a quick bandwagon ride. [First added to this chart: 05/29/2022]

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

4 charts

Rank in 2014:

None

Rank in 2010s:

None

Average Rating:

 71 (2 votes)

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