V.A. Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan Volume Twenty-Four

This thirty-THREE (!) volume series features artists covering Bob Dylan songs. All of the tracks are recordings of independent origin (ROIO) and hence officially unreleased.

I'm convinced that this series grows stronger as it goes. It's probably the ever-lessening percentage of blues-jam sorta stuff - see Healey, Jeff (R.I.P.) here - and the even greater abundance of more left-field rock, country and folk material that biases me towards these later volumes. Of course, some might argue this set is dominated by so-called "Dad-Rock" what with it having Neil Young dueling with Bruce Springsteen:



Not to mention the sadly departed Warren Zevon doing an oft-neglected Dylan ballad:




But of course there's also Robyn Hitchcock doing "Lo & Behold" with an interpolation of the Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime", alongside eighties L.A. cow punks, The Textones doing the hard-to-call-it-neglected track, "Clean-Cut Kid":



01 One More Night - Elana James (May 30, 2007, Club Passim, Cambridge, MA)
02 To Be Alone with You - Steve Gibbons Band (SWF3 Festival, November 2, 1981)
03 Is Your Love in Vain - Steve Kilbey (Oct 29, 2006, Phoenix Community Reserve, East Malvern, Melbourne, Aus)
04 Lo and Behold - Robyn Hitchcock and the Nashville Crawdads (Mar 18, 2007, Belcourt Thetre, Nashville, TN)
05 Blind Willie McTell - Steve Wynn and John Wesley Harding (Feb 8 1998, Den Bosch, Netherlands)
06 Clean Cut Kid - The Textones (Nov 20, 1987, Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA)
07 Gates of Eden - Bryan Ferry (Apr 2, 2007, Tempodrom, Berlin, Ger)
08 Blowin' in the Wind - Joe Ely (Dec 31, 1990, Austin Coliseum, Austin, TX)
09 License to Kill - Roseanne Cash Apr 6, 2003, Mountain Stage, Cultural Center Auditorium, Charleston, WV)
10 Slow Train Coming - North Mississippi All Stars (May 11, 2007, WorkPlay Sound Stage, Birmingham, AL)
11 When the Night Comes Falling From the Sky - Jeff Healy Band (Apr 30, 1989, PC 69, Bielefeld, Ger)
12 All Along the Watchtower - Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (Oct 5, 2004, Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN)
13 Masters of War - Ben Harper and Tom Morello (Jun 9, 2007, Harrah's Casino, Council Bluffs, IA)
14 Dark Eyes - Warren Zevon (Mar 4, 2000, Park West, Chicago, IL)

If you'd like the series to continue - - - please don't forget to leave a comment behind!


Speaking of comments, the Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan Volume Twenty-Four link is in there.

Thanks to Jeffs98119 for compiling these and to stewART for the images.

• Thanks to Karl Erik @ Expecting Rain for tagging the songs for iTunes
  

• For V.'s 1-23 of Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan go here
  

• For slugline's impressive spreadsheet of the whole series go here