Which Dylan covers should they do?

[cmasters]

TOMBSTONE BLUES!!! or IT TAKES A LOT TO LAUGH, IT TAKES A TRAIN TO CRY... or anything from Higway 61 Revisited

& James covered girl from north country with M WARD and conor oberst on their acoustic tour, at least when I saw them the opening night in Omaha two Februarys ago... it was beautiful... My favorite memory of that night was on north country, cause Conor tried to match james on a harmony and his voice couldnt hit it so he quickly backed off... NO ONE CAN MATCH THE WONDER THAT IS JIM JAMES!!!!

[EC]

NO ONE CAN MATCH THE WONDER THAT IS JIM JAMES!!!!

heh.  That's awesome.  :)

[marktwain]

& James covered girl from north country with M WARD and conor oberst on their acoustic tour

Ha!  I knew I had heard Jim cover that one!

Oh, by the way - I got mixed up in a previous post, if anyone cares.  Greggy voted for Lily, Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts, which reminded me of Call Letter Blues.  But it is really Meet Me in the Morning, also from Blood On the Tracks, which should remind me of Call Letter Blues.   :-[

Just so you know I realize my mistake!

[otter]

I agree with the Not Dark Yet for sure, I'd like to hear Lovesick from that same album.

[darkglow]

i'll never forget the first song i saw mmj perform.

"the man in me" was a great one by bobby.. and the jacket nailed it. i can almost feel the cool breeze on the ohio river banks again when i listen to the recording of that show.. and that song in particular. excuse the cliche but all my troubles seemed to disappear for that entire show.. and then for the screen to drop down and play the big lebowski movie!! now that was poetic.

[EC]

otter!  hi!! :)

[otter]

Hi EC and everyone else. Hope everyone is ready to get their fix of live Jacket this outdoor season.

Un F*ing believable how good these guys are......still.

[casualfan]

"Gates of Eden" and, of course, "Masters of War".

Not Dylan, but "Cortez the Killer" and "Old Man" by Neil Young would be very, very cool.

[cmasters]

totally agree on those Neil Young covers, I was also thinking "albuquerque" by Young would be a good cover for those kentucky boys

[aMillionDreams]

I'd love to hear them play "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When I Go" and I'd love to hear Jim do "Girl of the North Country" solo acoustic.

[Gripe]

'One More Cup of Coffee' is a good choice, but it has already been done so well by the           . (There are two White Stripes there but you can't see 'em on accounta the background is also white.) I think Jack W. absolutely nailed it - one of the best covers I've ever heard.
The one I'd like to hear is 'Corrina, Corrina'. I know, Dylan covered it, but I just like it. 'Buckets of Rain' is another good suggestion.  

[aMillionDreams]

Corrina, Corrina is a Dylan original.  I think that 'One More Cup of Coffee' and 'Buckets of Rain' are good suggestions.  It seems that the whole forum agrees that just about anything off of 'Desire' or 'Blood on the Tracks' would be great.  I'd also like to hear something off of the Basement Tapes, maybe 'Going to Acapulco' or 'This Wheel's on Fire'.

[Ryan Branan]

they played "Tonight I'll be Staying Here With You" last night in Asheville.

[marktwain]

really far out.  That must've been great.

[rmwehner]

what about "you belong to me" dylan covered it from patsy cline, it is on the Natural Born Killers soundtrack.

[Gripe]

Corrina, Corrina is a Dylan original.

Are you sure? I'm just curious because the liner notes include the following:
Corrina, Corrina has been considerably changed by Dylan. "I'm not one of those guys who goes around changing songs just for the sake of changing them. But I'd never heard Corrina, Corrina exactly the way it first was, so that this version is the way it came out of me."
I guess he could have been referring to other peoples' versions being different from his original, making the album version his reworking of his own song, but I took his statement as meaning that he was covering it. (Why do I concern myself with this kind of minutia? Knowing the details really doesn't make the music any better or worse...) 

I'd also like to hear something off of the Basement Tapes, maybe 'Going to Acapulco' or 'This Wheel's on Fire'.

I've been eyeing the Basement Tapes for some time. Is it worth getting? I haven't heard much of The Band, so I was wary of picking it up. I've heard good things, though, so I'm sure I'll end up with it one day.

[aMillionDreams]

I am a huge dylan fan, I have all the studio albums and every official release and "Basement Tapes" is my personal favorite.  You have to understand that him and the Band were in seclusion in Woodstock, New York at the time.  The hippie movement wanted Dylan to lead the charge against the government and Dylan was making good music and trying to escape the limelight.  After having been booed off of stage for over a year dylan went into seclusion and the basement tapes are what "leaked" out.  It's Dylan at the peak of his musical (as supposed to lyrical) songwriting abilities. I could go on but I'll spare you...

As for the other question.  "Corrina, Corrina" is a Bob Dylan original.  Dylan "reworked" many songs in his early days.  He explains in the "Chronicles, Volume 1" that he didn't feel that a song was his if it borrowed a line or a tune or a feeling from another song.  He would come to learn that all songs are really "reworkings" in his later years.  Another example of this is "Percy's Song" which is a "reworking" of the Paul Clayton song, "The Wind and the Rain".  These 'reworkings' are all Dylan originals because so little is left of the original songs, usually just an idea or a line.  He also use to not take credit for his earlier songs because he didn't feel like they belonged to him, but to the folk tradition and to the people who inspired him to write.  I have a bootleg where he clained that "Let Me Die in My Footsteps" was a old Weavers song although it is a complete Dylan original.  "Corrina, Corrina" belongs in this category.  Dylan has the copyright, I promise.

While I'm talking about Dylan (and I'm trying to keep it short) there is a new documentary about the early years leading up to the time that he went into seclusion that was directed by Martin Scorsese and is going to air on PBS in early August.  The soundtrack is unbelievable.  Check out bobdylan.com for more info.  

(How's that for minutia?  I think it does make the music better to know the stories and the signifigance of the songs.  But, then again I'm a nerd about this stuff.  I'd really love to go on, but this is already a long post.)  

[chunt983]

no man, great post, I really love hearing anything about dylan. Never heard some of those things before about him, and appreciate the info...can't wait to see that docummentary, thanks for bringing that up, I bet it'll be tits.

[Ian_Alan]

aMillionDreams, great post I really enjoyed what you wrote about Dylan, insightful. As for a Dylan cover, It's Allright Ma, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands would be interesting.  How funny would Lay Lady Lay be

[Gripe]

aMillionDreams,

Thanks for the info and the clarification. You've convinced me that the Basement Tapes have a place in my future.