{"id":2153,"date":"2009-05-07T19:16:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T23:16:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-08T09:28:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T09:28:02","slug":"once-and-for-all-definitive-dylan-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/once-and-for-all-definitive-dylan-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Once and For All: Definitive Dylan Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/onceandforall.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/onceandforall.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>What are the <strong><em>definitive<\/em> cover versions<\/strong> of Bob Dylan songs, that is, <em>those covers that Dylan&#8217;s own original recordings cannot touch?<\/em> What do you think the <strong>over\/under<\/strong> is on such covers, 5, 10, 15? <em>Why don&#8217;t we hash it out here in the Halls of Rock?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To prevent against Definitive Dylan Cover Version ballot-box stuffing by the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2007\/10\/17\/hrrundi_v_bakshi_fals_in_love_with_bob_d\">Dylanphobe<\/a> <strong>Townsman Hrrundivbakshi<\/strong>, who might suggest that any Dylan cover beats the original version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2007\/08\/27\/clive_davis_requests_your_assistance_bob\">thanks to the lack of Dylan&#8217;s voice alone<\/a>, any definitive cover version that&#8217;s suggested will be stricken from the record with as few as <strong>TWO<\/strong> <em>reasoned<\/em> objections by Townspeople.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to be counting on longtime Dylan fans to speak for the hundreds of <em>deep cuts<\/em> and &#8220;bootleg series&#8221; recordings that folks will suggest have been covered definitively, but I&#8217;ll start with one such cover version that I cannot see anyone objecting to:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Manfred Mann, &#8220;The Mighty Quinn&#8221;<\/strong><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/liIQLIx2Onw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s settle this once and for all, shall we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the definitive cover versions of Bob Dylan songs, that is, those covers that Dylan&#8217;s own original recordings cannot touch? What do you think the over\/under is on such covers, 5, 10, 15? Why don&#8217;t we hash it out here in the Halls of Rock? To prevent against Definitive Dylan Cover Version ballot-box stuffing <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/once-and-for-all-definitive-dylan-covers\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[54,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}