S&D: Soul/R&B Dylan covers

Yeah, and speaking of "Just Like A Woman," Richie Havens started performing it soon after the original was released; always sounded good to me.

Con-funk-shun, "Mr. Tambourine Man"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmlUDAL_xU0
Love the way they hit "followin' you!"

I THINK they may have added the line "bump some booty with your tambourine."

Blue-eyed soul cover of "Just Like A Woman," by Van Morrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivHA_1WGjM4

damn that's good!! is it available on a live album?

http://www.ousterhout.net/mp3/vm/1971-09-05,%20Marin%20CA.txt

thx!

that's some directory

If we're gonna count Van, he (as lead singer of Them) did an ace "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" (various posts, but I'll go with this) Seems like they did a faster version too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L50OJ3iIkw

Staples Singers, "Hard Rain"---best version I've heard (well next to Ferry's, but this is really different, equally suitable) Call and response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDscNMz0QVU

the Them version of Baby Blue is all time, what is that organ/glockenspiel kinda sound in the background? too beautiful - it's like Van discovered a melodic part to the song that Bob hadn't seen

clicked on this thread just to see if anyone had posted that version of Van's Just Like A Woman. Indeed the whole Pacific High Studio concert is awesome.

not sure how much I like it but fits this thread
https://open.spotify.com/album/1Ql2YF7LghdVPo6qjdpLs3?si=jfw7Fph9R0GgitWiB0lQDQ

that's Bettye LaVette - Things Have Changed, title track's fun

Elvis's version of "Tomorrow Is A Long Time" is soulful. Plenty of r&b and other elements (swamp pop? Tex Mex backing vocals at one point?) in Jerry Lee's studio version of "Rita May" or "Rita Mae," I've seen diff spellings; live version is faster and purely impure JLL; "Stepchild," from a few years ago, also great and demonstrates compatibilty and maybe relatedness of his and Dylan's phrasing: all of these were on youtube when I recently posted links on other threads.

Heart going gospel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REpNOLdbXe4

Animals' House of the Rising Sun was picked up from the first Dylan lp and then fed into him becoming interested in electrifying didn't it? Interesting feedback loop.

Wonder what Otis Redding was going to get into if he'd lived beyond the plane crash era. Like if teh accident didn't happen. I heard he was picking up on both Dylan and the Beatles.

xp a lot of teleprompting in that clip but what really bugs me is the use of autotune