Women Covering Dylan

A Million $ Bash Roundtable

As much as we love Bob Dylan’s many versions of his own music, we at Million $ Bash would be remiss if we did not discuss some of the gazillions of covers of Dylan’s work. Given the buzz emanating from Cat Power’s reconstruction of Dylan’s set from his 1966 British tour, it makes sense to discuss specifically covers of Dylan by women.

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M$B Roundtable Panelists:

• Rob “Rockin’ Rob” Reginio teaches modern literature at Alfred University.  He's currently at work on a book about Dylan's album John Wesley Harding.
• Nina Goss is Editor of or contributor to the volumes Tearing the World Apart: Bob Dylan and the 21st Century and Dylan at Play. She is a contributor to various anthologies and presented at the first World of Bob Dylan conference (2019), and Dylan and the Beats conference in Tulsa (2022). She teaches at Fordham University.
• Court Carney is a professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University, where he teaches courses on Black history and cultural history. He is finishing a book manuscript on the public memory of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
• Erin Callahan lives in the Houston, Texas, area where she teaches English at San Jacinto College. She has presented and published on Dylan and is currently co-editing a volume with Court Carney on interpretations of Dylan’s setlists for Routledge.
• Graley Herren is an English professor at Xavier University in Cincinnati, where he regularly teaches a first-year seminar on Bob Dylan. He is author of the book Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan’s Time Out of Mind, and he has a Substack newsletter devoted to Dylan called Shadow Chasing.
• Jim Salvucci is the founder and keeper of The Dylantantes.

Lists of Women Covering Dylan by Your Favorite Bashers

• Rob“Every Grain of Sand,” Emmylou Harris“She Belongs to Me,” Ane Brun“Not Dark Yet,” Shelby Lynn & Allison Moorer“I Believe in You,” Sinead O’Connor“Don’t Think Twice,” Dolly Parton“Shelter from the Storm,” Cassandra Wilson“Ring Them Bells,” Sarah Jarosz“Buckets of Rain,” Neko Case“Changing of the Guards,” Patti Smith“Boots of Spanish Leather” Nanci Griffith“Love Minus Zero/No Limit,” Chrissie Hynde“Masters of War,” Odetta“Walking Down the Line,” Eilen Jewell“Thunder on the Mountain,” Wanda Jackson“Man in the Long Black Coat,” Joan Osbourne“It’s All Over Now Baby Blue,” Marianne Faithfull“Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You,” Ann Peebles“Million Miles,” Bonnie Raitt

3 albums too: Lavette's "Things Have Changed," Baez's "Any Day Now," & Cat Power's '66 album!

• NinaBarb Jungr, Sara; her all-Bob CDCass Elliot, Joni Mitchell, Mary Travers  I Shall Be ReleasedPatti Smith, Dark EyesJennifer Hudson, The Times They Are A-Changing
• CourtPatti Smith: Hard Rain (Nobel)Sarah Jarosz: Sign on the Window (live)Nina Simone: Just Like a WomanLucinda: It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to CryNeko Case: Buckets of rainNanci Griffith: Boots of Spanish LeatherCat Power: I Believe in YouAnn Peebles: Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with YouGillan Welch: BillyFairport Convention: Percys SongPJ Harvey: Shot of Love (live)
• ErinAlicia Keys – “I’m Pressing On”Nina Simone – “I Shall Be Released”Nina Simone – “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”Emma Swift – “Visions of Johanna”Patti Smith – “Changing of the Guards”Cat Power – “Mr. Tambourine Man”Cat Power – “Visions of Johanna”Norah Jones – “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight”Edie Brickell – “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall”Marianne Faithful – “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”
• GraleyNina Simone, “Just Like a Woman,” São Paulo, Brazil (April 13, 2000)Gillian Welch (with Dave Rawlings), “Mr. Tambourine Man,” Newport Folk Festival (July 26, 2015)Gillian Welch (with Dave Rawlings), “Billy” (not sure of location or date)Susan Tedeschi, “Lord Protect My Child,” Farm Aid (September 18, 2005)Sarah Jarosz, “Ring Them Bells,” Nashville (not sure of date)Chrissie Hynde (with James Walbourne), “In the Summertime,” not sure of location (April 2020)

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