S&D: Soul/R&B Dylan covers

I'm hooked on Solomon Burke's "Maggie's Farm" and Phil Flowers's "Like A Rolling Stone" right now... the only other one I can think of off-hand right now is Stevie's "Blowin' In The Wind", which doesn't blow me away as much but then I'm kind of sick of the song itself.

Can anyone recommend any others, especially pre-funk '60's stomping soul stuff?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK6931WJcQQ

Missed this thread out of the gate, I love this little subgenre. Some favorites:

Sort of the classic example, I think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDdLgBO0Nw

And for Xmas, give Ike a gun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVVSHkxH5Zs

Minnie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbp0xXlIyws

Other great ones:
Howard Tate - Girl from the North Country
Bobby Womack - All Along the Watchtower (really a cover of the Hendrix cover)
Does Harry Belafonte count? Nice version of Tomorrow Is A Long Time. Nina Simone has done a ton too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zpBR6k06-k

surprised no one has posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIRwkqvQ_ZY

Sam Cooke's is way better than Stevie's tho

thanks! i was bummed out when no-one responded to this

I just heard Billy Preston's "It's Alright Ma" for the 1st time -- pretty sweet! Not an oft-covered song.

(and yeah, I somehow totally missed this thread the first time around)

Dylan apparently offered "Just Like A Woman" to Otis Redding originally. Bummer he never recorded it. Are there any good soul covers of that song?

Staples' cover of John Brown is definitive, so fantastic

here's something the other way around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqlM21h-H_0

yeah, agree that the Staples "John Brown" is awesome -- though I might prefer Jim Dickinson's version more! (Obviously based on the Staples' arrangement).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOmqNuH3Y5s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MDcfk5EngQ&feature=player_embedded

marion williams's I SHALL BE RELEASED ftw duh

available on soul jazz's SOUL GOSPEL comp, i think?

haven't heard that one -- will have to seek it out.
also wtf w/ the Nina Simone Marilyn Monroe youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd9xi_eMq7M

not quite in thread remit as such but still awes

That is great, so many specific gestures in there hark back to the original, it must have followed from an insane number of repeat viewings.

Never heard this one before, going unmiked by the end is pretty badass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUa0qGnpIbM

Freddie Scott does a nice 'I Shall be Released'

The computer I'm on has YouTube links disabled, so this may be redundant, but Roberta Flack does a very nice "Just Like A Woman" on her Chapter Two album.

She does a really great Leonard Cohen cover on that one too, I think.

that nina simone just like a woman cover is, frankly, awful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJTOV94w-uk

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYT56CMpNPc

Aaron Neville, motherfuckers

Oh yeah

Heard him doing a Van Morrison cover the other day. It wasn't actually that much different from the original. "Crazy Love," I think.

Well this one's pretty amazing---check the range of material in the track list, and the sequence---thee songs they are a-chain-jin'. The Brothers And Sisters handle it well, if *almost* having trouble with a few of the moec word-laden lines, but totally totally understandably so. More info and audio samples too:
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/1007-dylan-s-gospel

Much later, the Persuasions did a whole album of Dylan, but here's their 1971 acappella classic---if it doesn't show up, it's "The Man In Me," frequently on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsx9YBV9EnM

Also: Buddy Guy, Anthony Hamilton, and steel guitar wizard Robert Randolph (a whole story in himself, originally from Florida's sacred steel community, later covering Hendrix, Coltrane etc), with "Lay Lady Lay"--was thinking Al Green was on here too, oh well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZHi3blsNYw

i like that dylans gospel LP -- their "mighty quinn" kinda emphasizes its second-coming qualities

Yeah, and speaking of "Just Like A Woman," Richie Havens started performing it soon after the original was released; always sounded good to me.

Con-funk-shun, "Mr. Tambourine Man"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmlUDAL_xU0
Love the way they hit "followin' you!"

I THINK they may have added the line "bump some booty with your tambourine."

Blue-eyed soul cover of "Just Like A Woman," by Van Morrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivHA_1WGjM4

damn that's good!! is it available on a live album?

http://www.ousterhout.net/mp3/vm/1971-09-05,%20Marin%20CA.txt

thx!

that's some directory

If we're gonna count Van, he (as lead singer of Them) did an ace "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" (various posts, but I'll go with this) Seems like they did a faster version too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L50OJ3iIkw

Staples Singers, "Hard Rain"---best version I've heard (well next to Ferry's, but this is really different, equally suitable) Call and response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDscNMz0QVU

the Them version of Baby Blue is all time, what is that organ/glockenspiel kinda sound in the background? too beautiful - it's like Van discovered a melodic part to the song that Bob hadn't seen

clicked on this thread just to see if anyone had posted that version of Van's Just Like A Woman. Indeed the whole Pacific High Studio concert is awesome.

not sure how much I like it but fits this thread
https://open.spotify.com/album/1Ql2YF7LghdVPo6qjdpLs3?si=jfw7Fph9R0GgitWiB0lQDQ

that's Bettye LaVette - Things Have Changed, title track's fun

Elvis's version of "Tomorrow Is A Long Time" is soulful. Plenty of r&b and other elements (swamp pop? Tex Mex backing vocals at one point?) in Jerry Lee's studio version of "Rita May" or "Rita Mae," I've seen diff spellings; live version is faster and purely impure JLL; "Stepchild," from a few years ago, also great and demonstrates compatibilty and maybe relatedness of his and Dylan's phrasing: all of these were on youtube when I recently posted links on other threads.

Heart going gospel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REpNOLdbXe4

Animals' House of the Rising Sun was picked up from the first Dylan lp and then fed into him becoming interested in electrifying didn't it? Interesting feedback loop.

Wonder what Otis Redding was going to get into if he'd lived beyond the plane crash era. Like if teh accident didn't happen. I heard he was picking up on both Dylan and the Beatles.

xp a lot of teleprompting in that clip but what really bugs me is the use of autotune