A list: Bob Dylan cover versions recorded or performed since 2000?

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Whether recorded or only performed live. Either is fine.

It's kind of a superficial "is he still relevant?" test. It might be fun to come up with a whole series of threads for similar lists of recent covers of songs by other classic rock (or non-classic rock) warhorses. (Beatles, Kinks, etc.)

I thought of this when I bought a bunch of Joni Mitchell records recently. I'm listening to them and I like them okay. Yet I read about hugely, enormously popular she used to be (critically and commercially) and her name still comes up often enough, yet there doesn't seem to be much of a thriving Joni Mitchell following among young people. Or if there is, it's eluding me (if you have a list of recent Joni Mitchell cover songs, by all means, start another thread about it. I'd be curious to see it).

Anyway, back to Bob Dylan, I'm sure there are plenty of recent Bob Dylan covers, but I can't think of any. Can YOU? Post 'em.

― Phone Freak, Monday, 7 November 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

search: any of cat power or robyn hitchcock's dylan covers.

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 November 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

search: avril lavigne's cover of "knockin' on heaven's door"!

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 November 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

Also search:
Thalia Zedek: You're a Big Girl Now (no, seriously, search this one...)
Neko Case: Buckets of Rain
Mirah: Dear Landlord
Was (Not Was): Dignity
Dear Nora: Girl from the North Country
Will Oldham: New Pony
Nob Dylan & His Nobsoletes: Desolation Twist

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 7 November 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

Pearl Jam: "Masters of War" on Letterman

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 7 November 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

Susan Tedeschi does a nice version of "Lord Protect My Child" on her new record.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 7 November 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

I heard Alabama 3 do a great cover on the radio a couple fo montha ago - I think it was "Not Dark Yet"

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Monday, 7 November 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

16 Horsepower - Nobody 'cept you (Secret South, 2000)

― Marcel Verhoeven (Marcel Verhoeven), Monday, 7 November 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

White Stripes - "Lovesick"

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 7 November 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

White Stripes - "Isis"

― Wooda, Monday, 7 November 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Knockin' On Heaven's Door is covered every 27 seconds. Please help.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 7 November 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

white stripes also do "one more cup of coffee", among others, i think. billy childish does "hollis brown", but that may be pre-2000. cat power does a bunch too.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 7 November 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

the white stripes covered isis? where?? (xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 7 November 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

only live i think, but it's been bootlegged.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 7 November 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

The Dixie Chicks do a great live version of Mississippi. They play it in the Sheryl Crow arrangement.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 7 November 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Robyn Hitchcock, as mentioned above, put out a double-album of Dylan covers recently-ish.

Also, there were like three music mags last month featuring cds of contemporary Dylan covers. The ones I remember liking from the Uncut cd were:

Richard Fontaine - From a Buick 6
Dave Alvin - Highway 61 Revisited
Paul Westerberg - It Takes a Lot to Laugh It Takes a Train to Cry

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Monday, 7 November 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Prince needs to do an album of Dylan covers. And vice-versa. Kind of a Minnesota project. Prince doing "Don't Think Twice It's Alright," Dylan doing "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man"...in my head, it sounds like the best thing ever.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 7 November 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Dump (aka James McNew of Yo La Tengo) covered "Wanted Man" on an album (alongside any number of Dylan covers YLT has probably performed live in the last five years).

― James, Monday, 7 November 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Drive-thru Records(!) released a pretty terrifying album of Dylan covers earlier this year.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

a couple of years ago i was going around saying "waah, no one cares about bob dylan anymore," but with all the freak-folk around now (and the scorsese doc) i'd venture to say that isn't true.

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Dylan will always be cared about. Here's an interesting list.

Also, Calla's version of "I Shall Be Released" is something surprising and special.

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

there wasjust a whole cd given away with mojo of people doing dylan covers. but the only one I know about was AMC doing "Queen Jane Approximately". it's not very good

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

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