Dylan covers 7: Rare Discoveries
by Moondance 
This chart will collect all those Dylan cover songs that are rare or unique is one way or another.
The comments for each album will reveal the 'rare' feature of the Dylan cover song(s).
- Chart updated: 04/25/2025 00:45
- (Created: 02/07/2024 04:13).
- Chart size: 20 albums.
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Hamilton's debut studio album (after changing his name from Bob Camp) includes a good chuck of Dylan covers, most of which were unreleased at the time** & would not be officially released until the 2000's:
Guess I'm Doin' Fine**; Girl From The North Country; Walkin' Down The Line**; Long Time Gone**; Only A Hobo**; Tomorrow Is A Long Time; Paths Of Victory* [First added to this chart: 04/22/2025]
Guess I'm Doin' Fine**; Girl From The North Country; Walkin' Down The Line**; Long Time Gone**; Only A Hobo**; Tomorrow Is A Long Time; Paths Of Victory* [First added to this chart: 04/22/2025]
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As the Official Bob Dylan site states:
From Another World is a collection of recordings of Bob Dylan songs unlike any other. Interpreted by musicians from Cuba, Bangladesh, Macedonia, Taiwan, Burma, Iran, Egypt and from diverse musical traditions, you’ve never heard Bob Dylan songs sound like the recordings on From Another World.
This album also includes, perhaps, the only Dylan song (Father Of Night) interpreted and sung by first nations people in Australia. [First added to this chart: 03/26/2024]
From Another World is a collection of recordings of Bob Dylan songs unlike any other. Interpreted by musicians from Cuba, Bangladesh, Macedonia, Taiwan, Burma, Iran, Egypt and from diverse musical traditions, you’ve never heard Bob Dylan songs sound like the recordings on From Another World.
This album also includes, perhaps, the only Dylan song (Father Of Night) interpreted and sung by first nations people in Australia. [First added to this chart: 03/26/2024]
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This album includes the following Dylan songs:
Track 1 - Blowin' In The Wind performed by The New World Singers (the first ever recording released of BITW).
Track 3 - John Brown performed by Blind Boy Grunt (aka Bob Dylan)
Track 8 - I Will Not Go Under The Ground (later known as 'Let Me Die In My Footsteps' performed by Happy Traum
Track 9 - Only A Hobo performed by Blind Boy Grunt (aka Bob Dylan) [First added to this chart: 02/01/2025]
Track 1 - Blowin' In The Wind performed by The New World Singers (the first ever recording released of BITW).
Track 3 - John Brown performed by Blind Boy Grunt (aka Bob Dylan)
Track 8 - I Will Not Go Under The Ground (later known as 'Let Me Die In My Footsteps' performed by Happy Traum
Track 9 - Only A Hobo performed by Blind Boy Grunt (aka Bob Dylan) [First added to this chart: 02/01/2025]
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Track 4 - The Old Man (aka Man On The Street)
This is perhaps the first original Dylan song ever recorded...it was performed by Dylan at The Gaslight Cafe on 6 September 1961 (the same occasion Dylan first performed Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues & Song For Woody). Dave Van Ronk was in the cafe on that date and even accompanied Dylan on guitar & vocal for a rendition of Woody Guthrie's 'Car Car'. The bootleg recording of this occasion is known as The First Gaslight Tape.
Dylan later recorded Man On The Street on 22 November 1961 at Columbia Studio A along with 6 cover songs. The 6 cover songs would appear on Dylan's self-titled March 1962 debut album, but Man On The Street would be archived until released on the March 1991 The Bootleg Series Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased.
Dave's cover version (always known by Dave as 'The Old Man') is the only known cover of this song by a recognised recording artist. [First added to this chart: 03/06/2024]
This is perhaps the first original Dylan song ever recorded...it was performed by Dylan at The Gaslight Cafe on 6 September 1961 (the same occasion Dylan first performed Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues & Song For Woody). Dave Van Ronk was in the cafe on that date and even accompanied Dylan on guitar & vocal for a rendition of Woody Guthrie's 'Car Car'. The bootleg recording of this occasion is known as The First Gaslight Tape.
Dylan later recorded Man On The Street on 22 November 1961 at Columbia Studio A along with 6 cover songs. The 6 cover songs would appear on Dylan's self-titled March 1962 debut album, but Man On The Street would be archived until released on the March 1991 The Bootleg Series Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased.
Dave's cover version (always known by Dave as 'The Old Man') is the only known cover of this song by a recognised recording artist. [First added to this chart: 03/06/2024]
Year of Release:
1983
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Track 2 - Train A Travellin
Track 3 - The Death of Emmitt Till
Track 19 - I'd Sure Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day
All three rarely covered songs recorded by Dylan as Blind Boy Grunt on Broadside Ballads Vol6 album. [First added to this chart: 04/13/2025]
Track 3 - The Death of Emmitt Till
Track 19 - I'd Sure Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day
All three rarely covered songs recorded by Dylan as Blind Boy Grunt on Broadside Ballads Vol6 album. [First added to this chart: 04/13/2025]
Year of Release:
1975
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3
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Track 2? - The Death Of Emmett Till
One of only 2 covers of this song with both words & music. [First added to this chart: 04/06/2025]
One of only 2 covers of this song with both words & music. [First added to this chart: 04/06/2025]
Year of Release:
2020
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2
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Track 3 - Playboys & Playgirls (performed by Jon Betmead)
A rare cover of a rare 1962 song, [First added to this chart: 04/06/2025]
A rare cover of a rare 1962 song, [First added to this chart: 04/06/2025]
Year of Release:
1971
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Track 37 - Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
The first, and one of only a handful of, covers. [First added to this chart: 04/06/2025]
The first, and one of only a handful of, covers. [First added to this chart: 04/06/2025]
Year of Release:
2009
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Track 10 - I Can't Leave Her Behind
This is a very rare cover song. The song isn't even listed in Dylan's lyrics books and most consider it to be an unfinished work.
The only record we have of the song is from audio recordings of the 13 May 1966 Glasgow concert.
Stephen Malkmus did the first cover of the song for the 'I'm Not There' biopic. Steven Keene's version is only the 2nd such cover. [First added to this chart: 02/18/2024]
This is a very rare cover song. The song isn't even listed in Dylan's lyrics books and most consider it to be an unfinished work.
The only record we have of the song is from audio recordings of the 13 May 1966 Glasgow concert.
Stephen Malkmus did the first cover of the song for the 'I'm Not There' biopic. Steven Keene's version is only the 2nd such cover. [First added to this chart: 02/18/2024]
Year of Release:
2023
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Track 9 - Day Of The Locusts
This is the only known recorded cover of this song - and the band do a great job. [First added to this chart: 03/21/2024]
This is the only known recorded cover of this song - and the band do a great job. [First added to this chart: 03/21/2024]
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Dylan covers 7: Rare Discoveries composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1960s | 2 | 10% | |
| 1970s | 4 | 20% | |
| 1980s | 2 | 10% | |
| 1990s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2000s | 3 | 15% | |
| 2010s | 5 | 25% | |
| 2020s | 4 | 20% |
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| Various Artists | 3 | 15% | |
| Bettina Jonic | 1 | 5% | |
| Goldie Hawn | 1 | 5% | |
| Ben Williams | 1 | 5% | |
| Telly Savalas | 1 | 5% | |
| Mike Peters | 1 | 5% | |
| Kaylé Brecher | 1 | 5% | |
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