Bob Dylan’s old tracks, by his own fervent admission, were not protest songs—they were liminal works that contained the whole gambit of life. The best covers of ‘The Times They Are A-Changin”:The Beach BoysWhen the sun-bleached Californians set about recording Party! Neil YoungAs joint forces of the counterculture movement, Dylan and Neil Young extolled virtues, poetry and harmonica harps like no others. As Young once humbly said: “Bob Dylan, I’ll never be Bob Dylan. One of the finest moments in her career came when Dylan’s former idol turned the tables and offered up a covers album of his songs, Odetta Sings Dylan.

Source: The Times January 13, 2022 17:05 UTC