Best Covers

The entire Playing for Change series on YouTube. Amazing covers of many songs including The Weight, Gimme Shelter, Ripple, Doctor My Eyes, When the Levee Breaks, Soulshine, Higher Ground, Stir It Up, and others.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=playing+for+change

Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert

(Cat was born to sing Dylan. Visions of Johanna is haunting)

http://tinyurl.com/jfydcjas

Jerry Garcia Band Live: After Midnight>Eleanor Rigby>After Midnight

Lucinda Williams: Salt of the Earth (from Lu's Jukebox series)

The hits keep coming:

Can't Find My Way Home - Bonnie Raitt, Lowell George, Freebo

In My Room - Danny Gatton (from 88 Elmira St.)

A Song For You -Leon Russell

Season of the Witch - Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper (Super Session)

Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin' - Rickie Lee Jones (Flying Cowboys)

Dancing in the Dark - Patti Smith

Over the Rainbow - Stanley Jordan

Somewhere (from West Side Story) - Tom Waits

Dylan did a slew of covers when he played a famous 4 hour show at Toad's Place in New Haven in 1990 including:

Help Me Make It Through The Night

Key to the Highway

Lonesome Whistle

Dancing in the Dark

Across the Borderline

Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie

Trouble No More

Walk a Mile in My Shoes

@immatthewj

"I am like you in the respect that I like good covers...."

There was a poster on the dimeadozen torrent site several years ago who was a huge Dylan fan and he put together a compilation series of various artists performing live versions of Dylan covers. There were usually 15 to 20 different covers in each volume and as I recall he torrented somwhere around 40+ volumes! I think I still have at least a dozen of them on thumb drives lying around somewhere. I can't remember where I got them but I also downloaded a 9 volume set of songs that Dylan covered in live shows during the course of his career.