Even weird, tossed-off or straight-up bad Dylan songs can make for great covers. And because there are so many kinds of Dylan songs, thereвЂ™s a vast array of different kinds of Dylan covers: R&B singers love relaxing into the contours of вЂњLay Lady LayвЂќ country singers like his rootsy stuff indie-rockers key into his sad side heroic rock singers love scaling the peaks of open-ended classics - like вЂњItвЂ™s All Over Now, Baby BlueвЂќ or вЂњLike a Rolling StoneвЂќ - finding their own way to make new meanings amidst the intersecting, and often contradictory, emotions and ideas that can roil around within one Dylan song. Our picks include everyone from Hendrix, Baez, and the Byrds to Cher, Adele, and the Roots.Дylan at 80 | Interviews, Reviews, Photos, ArchivesДylan loved the ides of other people doing his songs, and itвЂ™s amazing how many songs here were recorded many times by other artists before the man himself ever released his own versions often, they lived whole other lives, evolving and changing over the years, with his idea of the song as only a blueprint. As the greatest songwriter of all time, Dylan has inspired thousands of covers of his songs by artists from every corner of music. The list has songs recorded by his folk peers nearly 60 years ago, and others from as recently as last year. For Bob DylanвЂ™s 80th birthday weвЂ™ve compiled our list of the 80 greatest covers of his songs - a collective gift back to him to say thank you for everything heвЂ™s given us.

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