Category: A’s Track of the Day

Originally on Dylan’s 1974 album Planet Waves, this fine version by Gregg Allman appeared on his eighth and last solo album Southern Blood in 2017. He died that same year.

Margo and the boys in customary low-key mode for a song from Dylan’s 2020 collection Rough and Rowdy Ways.

This first appeared on Dylan’s Infidels album in 1983 and was covered by the Rodster 12 years later on A Spanner in the Works.

Lovely, laid-back, live performance of the Dylan classic. And here’s Bryan Ferry’s take on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxeurlq7m2k

Something a bit jollier today; a 1969 reggae rendition of the Dylan song which first appeared on the Band’s Music From Big Pink the previous year.

With tragic timing, I scheduled this clip for today unaware that Tom Verlaine had died on Saturday, aged 73. RIP TV, a true guitar genius. Another star taken early from … Continue readingTelevision: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door

According to this website https://hellomusictheory.com/learn/famous-brazilian-singers/ Caetano Veloso is the sixth-most famous Brazilian singer of all time. In this performance from 1992, he gets his lungs round Dylan’s song from the … Continue readingCaetano Veloso: Jokerman

Originating from the Basement Tapes, this haunting version appears on I’m Not There, the 2007 biopic of his Bobness. And a strange old clip it is.

Rolling Stone said: ‘Dylan’s good friend Johnny Cash famously duetted with him on this folk ballad for Nashville Skyline in 1969. Cash also included the Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan number on a list of “essential” country … Continue readingRosanne Cash: Girl from the North Country

A real curio, this. Complete with false start when his guitar falls off, Thunders covers the Dylan song from 1975’s Desire album live on Irish TV. When the presenter says … Continue readingJohnny Thunders: Joey