Category: A’s Track of the Day

It takes some nerve to cover a song from Blood on the Tracks, but Colvin does it with aplomb in this live version from 2015. The other guitarist is Steuart … Continue readingShawn Colvin: You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

From her 1995 album Wrecking Ball, Emmylou’s stellar version of the song premiered on Dylan’s LP Shot of Love, released in 1981.

Performed live in Glace Bay Nova Scotia in 2007, the Stripes’ percussive version of Dylan’s classic from the Desire album of almost 30 years earlier. Here’s a somewhat gentler version … Continue readingThe White Stripes: One More Cup of Coffee

Bonnie’s version appeared on her 2012 album Slipstream, and very good it is too. The original was on Dylan’s Time out of Mind, released in 1997.

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