Category Archives: Bob Dylan Cover Albums

Bob Dylan cover albums: There’s a lot of them out there, most on CD these days, which puts them out of my jurisdiction. Amazingly, there’s very little information on the internet about many of the pre-CD era releases. Even the usually reliable All Music Guide seems lacking in this department; they might have the album listed, but no review, for example. Scroll down to see what’s been reviewed or go HERE to see the full list at a glance.

My personal favourites from the whole list would be (1) The superb 2010 Subterranean Homesick Blues cover album by various artists, (2) Coulsen, Dean, McGuinness & Flint’s amazing Lo & Behold, (3) The sprawling soundtrack to Todd Haynes I’m Not There, (4) The Brothers & Sisters’s wonderful Dylan’s Gospel, and (5) Hugo Montenegro’s entertaining Dawn Of Dylan. Favourite instrumental collection would be the Gotham String Quartet’s Immortal Songs of Bob Dylan. Best ‘foreign artist’ cover album? By a country mile, Mikael Wiehe’s De Ensligas Alle – it kicks post-punk proto-industrial Swedish ass. There’s lots of other good stuff in here but the good wouldn’t be good without the mediocre and the just plain awful – unfortunately there’s plenty of that here too.