Watching The Covers Flow

Watching The Covers Flow

Watching the Covers Flow is a podcast that dives deep into covers of, and by, the most covered songwriter in rock and roll: Bob Dylan. Host Ray Padgett (Flagging Down the Double E's newsletter, Pledging My Time book) explores covers across era and genre, from a hip-hop "Subterranean Homesick Blues" to a bluegrass "Ring Them Bells" to Dylan's own frequent detours from writing his own songs to singing other people's.

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April 26, 2024 15 mins

Despite the group's five superstars, the Traveling Wilburys have been covered less than you might think. Today the show investigates covers of both the few songs lots of artists cover (Handle with Care, End of the Line) and the many more Wilburys tunes that have only been covered once or twice.

Songs in this episode include:

  1. Headstones — Tweeter and the Monkey Man
  2. Jenny Lewis with The Watson...
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In the first year of the Never Ending Tour, Dylan pulled out all the stops. Not only did he play deep cuts from his own catalog he'd never performed before, but he covered many unexpected songs, often from the folk songbook and often acoustic with G.E. Smith. Here are some of the best.

** The Public Version includes the first six songs. The Subscriber Version includes all 10 plus a full-songs bonus show. **

Songs in this epis...

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Digging through the many, many Dylan covers released in the late '80s to find the ones that sound the MOST '80s, turning Bob tunes into post-punk goth, hair metal, and Run-DMC style hip-hop.

Songs in this episode include:

  1. With God on Our Side (by Wire Train)
  2. Like a Rolling Stone (by Mitch Ryder)
  3. Wanted Man (by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
  4. You Ain't Goin Nowhere (by The Rave-...
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Today we journey back to 1986 to explore some of the many old-time-rock-and-roll covers Bob Dylan performed while on tour with his big-name backing band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (and don't forget the Queens of Rhythm!). Exploring largely songs they grew up with, they tackle everything from Ricky Nelson to "House of the Rising Sun" to a song in Japanese.

A Blog Post About These Songs:

  1. Kansas ...
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This is the first episode of Watching The Cover Flow a podcast that dives deep into covers of, and by, the most covered songwriter in rock and roll: Bob Dylan.

Empire Burlesque gets a lot of grief from Dylan fans for its oh-so-'80s production. Can the songs be redeemed when delivered in other styles by other artists?

Songs covered include:

  1. Tight Connection To My Heart (Jon Carrol & Love Retu...
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