We've got a few cover songs threads, but I've been on a Bob Dylan kick lately, and Dylan has to be one of the most covered artists in the history of rock. So covered, I'm thinking he needs his own thread.

Some of the more famous Dylan covers include Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" and Guns N' Roses' "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", but does anyone have some oddball favorites?

Here's a few of mine:

Them - "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". Van Morrison's old band really does this tune justice. Beck ended up sampling this for his song, "Jack-Ass".

Mike Ness - "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright". Ex-Social Distortion singer turns it into a punkabilly classic.

The Ramones - "My Back Pages". This is really a cover of the Byrds' version, since they also drop a couple of Dylan's verses, but this works incredibly well as a punk tune.

Well, I've always liked "One More Cup Of Coffee" covered by The White Stripes.

and "Death Is Not The End" covered by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

Those are kinda obvious, but they're the first two that came to mind.

I've never heard the Nick Cave cover, but the White Stripes one is definitely cool.

Favorite Dylan song covers I can recall: "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" by Shawn Colvin, Mary-Chapin Carpenter & Rosanne Cash from the Bob-fest tribute. From I'm Not There: "Just Like A Woman" by Charlotte Gainsbourg & Calexico, and "Goin' To Acapulco" by Jim James & Calexico. George Harrison's take on "If Not for You". The Byrds cover of "My Back Pages". A cool one done surf instrumental by the Surfaris, "All I Really Want To Do". And of course, the White Stripes doing "One More Cup of Coffee".

Best of all, I love Mary Lee's Corvette's worthy cover of Blood on the Tracks in its entirety. Fun audience Dylan impersonations on "Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts".

Springsteen doing 'Chimes of Freedom' is essential.

Graham Bonnet's 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue' is tense and tight as the best pop should be.

I like a lot of the ones mentioned, especially The White Stripes' cover.

A few others I like are Chan Marshall's covers of "Paths of Victory" and "I Believe in You."

I know it was enjoyed some sour criticism, but I really like Sufjan's cover of "Ring them Bells". I wouldn't begin to call it the best Dylan cover ever though.

I have a really cool cover of "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" by Metric. It's fairly straight forward, but it's my favorite Dylan song in general so I think it's a solid cover.

What about Jimi Hendrix's cover of "All Along The Watchtower"?

Or is that kind of a given?


And Johnny Cash's cover of "It Ain't Me, Babe" is fun.

"I Shall Be Released" has many beautiful covers.

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I really like the Hold Steady's cover of "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"
Also from the I'm Not There Soundtrack, Iron & Wine & Calexico's cover of "Dark Eyes."

The only ones I've heard are "One More Cup of Coffee" by The White Stripes and sadly "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Avril Lavigne and Guns 'n' Roses.

In addition to the obvious choices mentioned above of Hendrix and the White Stripes, here are a couple:

Wilco w/ Fleet Foxes- "I Shall Be Released"
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the Secret Machines- "Girl from the North Country"- which was admittedly better live.

Rage Against the Machine- "Maggie's Farm"

Magnet w/ Gemma Hayes- "Lay Lady Lay"

Fairport Convention did a cover of "If You Want to go Now" in French, called "Si tu dois Partir" on their 1969 album "Unhalfbricking". Jolly good too.

Andrew Bird - Oh, Sister

Fairport Convention also covered Dylan's "I'll Keep It With Mine" on the self titled album on A&M. Also on the Unhalfbricking LP they cover "Percy's Song" and "Million Dollar Bash" as well. Another version of "Percy's Song" appearson the Heyday album. All three of these songs are included on the Fairport Chronicles double LP. For my money Fairport's treatment of "Percy's Song" and "Si Tu Dois Partir" are particularly sublime. Best of all is the traditional song "A Sailor's Life" which runs a bit more than 11 minutes and always seems to end too soon. I could play it repeatedly and still not get tired of hearing it. Fairport's Unhalfbricking is my favorite of theirs, and would be on any short list of desert island essentials.

I distinctly remember the day I bought the Unhalfbricking LP (along with Charley Musselwhite's Stone Blues and Dylan's Great White Wonder) at a local record store. All three remain particular favorites to this day.

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all along the watchtower and mr. tambourine man.