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:
Michael
ReplyDeleteJust 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
Just to complete things, here is Smith's version of 'Dont Think Twice'.
ReplyDeleteApologies for the poor sound quality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY2NnMcyj10
Michael
ReplyDeleteBy 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...
It's from the 2004 Montreux Jazz Festival.
ReplyDeleteIt's from the 2004 Montreux Jazz Festival.
ReplyDeleteMicheal
ReplyDeleteA 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