Monocled Alchemist

Episode 12

Dylanisms | Podcast Mixes Celebrating Bob Dylan Cover Versions |‘Dylanisms’ is my 10-song mix podcast project, building an extensive archive of (mostly) 1960s recordings of Bob Dylan songs as recorded by various solo performers and groups many years ago.

I will zoom in on the well known and the very obscure outfits who covered Dylan’s numbers, in particular those unknown teenage garage bands from USA. There are many but this list on Wikipedia doesn’t even acknowledge them.

My ‘Dylanisms’ project will be regular and will uncover everything worth hearing. It will last for a one-year paid subscription with my hosting platform RSS.com. By then, my mission will have been accomplished and the Gods shall anoint my feet with patchouli oil . . .

Honourable cover versions:

Tracks in order of appearance:

01 The Soup Greens – “Like A Rolling Stone”
single B-side on Golden Rule Records, September 1965

We used Shure mics, I think M57s. Anyway, it was a Saturday afternoon and we needed a B-side for “That’s Too Bad”. It came to me that we could do Dylan as well or better than any band out there, who were all doing folk-rock.

NO SOUL at all! We immediately ripped into “Like A Rolling Stone” Soup Green’s style, loved it, and that was that, except for recording it. The masters were done at Bell Sound in NYC, the studio where the Stones also had done masters.

We did it in one take, with overdubs. I think we jumped around for a while after the session, or had some beers, or something. We spent time in the Village in those days, having played at Trude Heller’s and the Night Owl; including one night with the Blues Magoos. (Dave Eagle)

02 The Bitter Ind – “Baby Blue”
single on ACP Records, 1967

03 Bobby Darin – “Blowin’ In The Wind”
taken from the LP ‘Golden Folk Hits’, 1963

04 Rod Stewart – “Tomorrow Is A Long Time”
taken from the LP ‘Every Picture Tells A Story’, 1971

05 Fotheringay – “Too Much Of Nothing”
taken from the LP ‘Fotheringay’, 1970

06 Cher – “Like A Rolling Stone”
taken from the LP ‘The Sonny Side Of Cher’, 1966

07 The Byrds – “The Times They Are A-Changin’” (first version)
previously unissued, June 1965

08 The Byrds – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (version 1)
previously unissued, June 1965

09 Chrissie Hynde – “Blind Willie McTell”
10 Chrissie Hynde – “Love Minus Zero”
taken from the album ‘Standing In The Doorway’ (BMG, 2019)