On this week’s show, we conclude our two-part celebration of Bob Dylan's 80th. We'll hear more of my favorite covers of Dylan's best tunes, including selections from Rhiannon Giddens, Willie Nelson, The Byrds, Martin Simpson and some from Bob as well. Celebrating the legendary icon … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.
Episode #21-21: Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan!, Pt.2
Host: Tom Druckenmiller
Artist/”Song”/CD/Label
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / SmithsonianFolkways
Larry Campbell / “Ragtime Annie” / Rooftops / Treasure
Brewer & Shipley / “All Along the Watchtower” / Weeds / BMG-Buddah
John Renbourn & Wizz Jones / “Buckets of Rain” / Joint Control / Riverboat
Brian Auger & the Trinity w/ Julie Driscoll / “This Wheels on Fire” / Open / Ghostown
Bob Dylan / “The Love that Faded” / The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams / Columbia
Rhiannon Giddens / “Spanish Mary” / Lost on the River / Harvest
Willie Nelson / “Heartland” / Across the Borderland / Columbia
Larry Campbell / “Blind Mary” / Rooftops / Treasure
The Byrds / “My Back Pages” / Younger than Yesterday / Columbia
Nina Simone / “I Shall Be Released” / Just Like a Woman / RCA-Legacy
Happy Traum / “Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)” / Just For the Love of It / Lark's Nest
Peter, Paul & Mary / “Too Much of Nothing” / Late Again / Warner Brothers
Martin Simpson / “Blind Willie McTell” / Vagrant Stanzas / Topic
Bob Dylan / “Forever Young” / Planet Waves / Columbia
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / SmithsonianFolkways