Sadly, we are living in times where a whole bunch of protest songs from past generations feel pretty damn prescient. Singer/songwriter Margo Price makes the case with her most recent release, a cover of Bob Dylan‘s “Maggie’s Farm.” Continue reading »
One of the fun parts of attending any festival is the possibility that some sort of unique collaboration will happen. And at the 2025 edition of the Bourbon & Beyond festival in Louisville, Kentucky, that’s what happened with the headlining act.
With The Lumineers closing the festivities on Thursday night, they brought guitarist Derek Trucks up to join them on a cover of Bob Dylan‘s iconic “Subterranean Homesick Blues.” On their current tour, the band usually works a cover into their set (most recent choices being Billy Joel’s “New York State of Mind” and Justin Bieber’s “Ghost”). Continue reading »
Welcome to Cover Me Q&A, where we take your questions about cover songs and answer them to the best of our ability.
Here at Cover Me Q&A, we’ll be taking questions about cover songs and giving as many different answers as we can. This will give us a chance to hold forth on covers we might not otherwise get to talk about, to give Cover Me readers a chance to learn more about individual staffers’ tastes and writing styles, and to provide an opportunity for some back-and-forth, as we’ll be taking requests (learn how to do so at feature’s end).
Today’s question, courtesy of staffer Tom McDonald:
What is your favorite cover of a protest song?
The Outlaw Music Festival tour hit the road with its most recent leg last week, featuring performances by Willie Nelson, Wilco and Bob Dylan. During Dylan’s set on July 29th in Virginia Beach, Bob added a few new wrinkles to his setlist. On the 29th Dylan busted out his “Highway 61 Revisited” for a tour debut. But more interesting for our purposes was the 16th song in the set. For the first time since 2002, Dylan covered “Searching For a Soldier’s Grave.” Continue reading »
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The live career of Jeff Lynne and Electric Light Orchestra unfortunately ended with a whimper instead of a bang, when Lynne had to cancel the final two concerts because of illness. So the July 9th show in Manchester ended up being the final bow of ELO. But, at least that night featured two great covers.
Dhani Harrison, the opening act for the final shows, joined Lynne and his band mates for covers of two Traveling Wilburys classics. Harrison’s father, George, was part of the super group. The other members included Lynne as well as Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and, on the first album, Roy Orbison.
Harrison (Dhani, not George) joined Lynne for “End of the Line,” which is a pretty fitting song to wrap up a career as a live act. The two also played “Handle with Care.” The songs were pretty close to the original (given in no small part to the fact that Harrison’s singing voice sounds a lot like his dad) and you can clearly tell the audience was thrilled and having a great time, given the number of voices joining in the choruses of both songs.
Both songs were from Traveling Wilburys, vol 1. The 1988 album started as a recording session for a B-side to a single from George Harrison’s Cloud 9 album, which was produced by Lynne. Below is the video for “End of the Line,” from the July 9th show. The performance of “Handle with Care” comes from the July 6th show in Birmingham.