Watching The Covers Flow
Watching the Covers Flow 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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Ray Padgett writes the newsletter Flagging Down the Double E’s, about Bob Dylan in concert; is the author of Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members; and founded the cover-songs blog Cover Me.
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:
- Headstones — Tweeter and the Monkey Man
- Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins — Handle with Care
- Dr. John ft. Aaron Neville — End Of The Line
- Petr Rezek & Karel Vágner — Jak Ty To Děláš [Congratulations]
- The Sweetback Sisters — Rattled
- Killing the Day — If You Belonged to Me
- Adrian Belew — Not Alone Anymore
SHOW CONTINUES ON THE EXTENDED EDITION
- Sweet Lights — Handle with Care
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers — Tweeter and the Monkey Man
- George Harrison — If You Belonged to Me
The episode includes only clips from these songs.
Full versions of these covers are in the Watching The Covers Flow Playlist.
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