V.A. Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan Volume Thirty

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.

So as mentioned last time, I came in on Volume 29 but it was Volume 30 that made me decide to get MRML involved with this series. Like Martin from The Simpsons ("Pick me teacher, I'm ever so smart") I wanted to enlighten Jeff when his liner notes said, "I don't know who The Duhks are (or even how their name is pronounced). As he surely knows by NOW, The Duhks (pronounced The Ducks, as a homage to their Disney-proof original name Scruj MacDuhk) are world-folk band led by Leonard Podolok, whose father, Mitch Podolok, founded The Winnipeg Folk Festival. (Yay, for my hometown!) Their fearless re-imagining of "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Dying) is utterly compelling. (Mini-doc on their cover of the song is here.)



Of course we've got a slew of other compelling artists on this volume like sixties bluegrass masters The Dillards, post-modern loser Beck, indie-darlings Antony and the Johnsons, The Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce, hard-livin', hard-writin' Texas legend Townes Van Zandt, X's John Doe and The White Stripes' Jack White's other other band, The Dead Weather:



01 It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - The Duhks (FTC Stage One Fairfield, Connecticut September 3, 2009)
02 Walkin' Down the Line - The Dillards (unknown date, 1965 The Golden Bear Huntington Beach, CA)
03 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window - Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee (Slovensko Mladinskega Gledalisca, Ljubljana (Slovenia) 6th of November 1994)
04 Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Eric Clapton (THE CIVIC AUDITORIUM SANTA MONICA CA. Nov 02/1978)
05 I Was Young When I Left Home - Antony and the Johnsons (23 march 2009 Koningin Elizabethzaal, Antwerp)
06 Isis – Neal Casal (Beverungen, Orange Blossom Special, June 13th, 1998)
07 Girl From the North Country - Conor Oberst, Jim James, and M. Ward (February 20, 2004, Pantages Threatre, Minneapolis, MN)
08 Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat – Beck (Hollywood Bowl- Hollywood California, September 20, 2008)
09 I Want You - Elliott Murphy (Reigen - Vienna - Austria, Apr 29, 2009)
10 Make You Feel My Love - Adele (FRI MAR 21, 2008,
KCRW Radio Santa Monica, California)
11 The Eternal Circle – The Albion Band (The Thekla Bristol 25th April 1990)
12 I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine - John Doe (1989.03.04 McCabe's Guitar Shop
Santa Monica, CA)
13 Well Well Well - Don Henley (Foxboro Stadium , The Walden Woods Benefit, Foxborough, Massachusetts September 6, 1993)
14 Shelter From the Storm - Robert Hunter (March 1, 1997, Boulder CO, Fox Theatre)
15 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Townes Van Zandt (THE DOWN HOME,JOHNSON CITY,TN.,USA, APRIL 18,1985)
16 New Pony - Dead Weather (July 22, 2009, KOOL HAUS, Toronto ON)
17 Like a Rolling Stone - Moonalice (May 2, 2009, Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA)
18 Blowin' in the Wind - Peter, Paul, and Mary (Nakano Sunplaza, Tokyo, Japan, February 17, 1995)

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 Thirty link is in there.

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

• Thanks to Karl Erik @ Expecting Rain for tagging these for iTunes
  

• For V.'s 1-29 of Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan go here
  

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