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VAN THE MAN: JUST LIKE A WOMAN

I've often enjoyed and admired Van Morrison's treatments of Dylan songs, starting way back when Them did a ground-breaking and nicely spooky It's All Over Now, Baby Blue', and this, decades later, is a rather fine live version of another mid-60s Dylan song, though I don't know exactly where or when it was done:

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  1. Elmer Gantry27 November, 2012

    Michael

    Just discovered this interesting cover version of 'Ballad of a Thin Man' by the late great Elliott Smith:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG-uyuuEXGU

    Here is his excellent version of 'when I paint my Masterpiece':

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fll3SzLibHY.

    Will round this off with Keb Mo's version of "The Times they are a Changin':

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_pcX16yc5c


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  2. Elmer Gantry27 November, 2012

    Just to complete things, here is Smith's version of 'Dont Think Twice'.

    Apologies for the poor sound quality:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY2NnMcyj10

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  3. Elmer Gantry28 November, 2012

    Michael

    By the way, the Van the Man clip is great...

    Once saw him do a brilliant live version of 'Its All Over now, Bably Blue' - at a concert in the Point in Dublin (a horrible venue, I know) sometime in the late 1990s/ early 2000s...

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  4. It's from the 2004 Montreux Jazz Festival.

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  5. It's from the 2004 Montreux Jazz Festival.

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  6. Elmer Gantry29 November, 2012

    Micheal

    A few cover versions of 'Buckets of Rain'

    As I posted a version of a Dylan song by Keb Mo yesterday, will start with one by the excellent Eric Bibb (unfortunately I think he takes it too fast);

    http://video.bigmir.net/show/109426/

    Will follow it with the John Renbourn version:

    http://www.myspace.com/johnrenbourn/music/songs/buckets-of-rain-81508406

    My favourite cover, however, is Dave Van Ronk's beautiful and magisterial version:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=babfyiMj5Bk





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