Here is the whole album on youtube
Parish Hall " 1970" - YouTube
I will try again later
One of my favorite Dylan covers ever!
I saw those guys in Detroit in the early 80s, but never knew Jason had Illinois roots.
Hey! 
Yeah - Jason was from central IL. When I was down in Champaign for college/grad school in the 70s-80s, the Scorchers were regulars at Mabel’s. His family often attended, sitting up in the balcony. I met him and his family several times. Really nice people.
Flash forward to when I got my current job 12 yrs ago. I had 4 weeks of training on DC. I checked out the local scene, and The Scorchers were playing. Only Jason and Warren still in the band. That was quite the training. Also saw X that trip. Man - Billy Zoom! I’ve got a thing for screaming guitar!
As long as we are talking Dylan covers… Mike Ness and Social D ain’t exactly obscure either, tho they SHOULD be more well known.
Holy crap! When I told my wife about this thread, she said, “I hope you’re putting ‘She Sheila’ on there! You listen to it all the time and nobody has heard of them.”
OTOH, they did release two damn fine albums and were popular enough to make national TV on NYE.
She also wanted me to add Arrogance.
“Certain Kinda Girl” is a great one, too. I only learned of it from a drummer friend of mine earlier this year – he said his college band used to cover a couple of their tunes and, after listening to a few of their songs, I wondered how nobody ever told me about them before!
There are lots of good songs. Both albums were released as a twofer on a single CD a few years ago. “She Sheila” was on EVERY SINGLE TIME I went to a certain sandwich place in the early 80s. It was a very popular video…and my sister-in-law who is the same age as me has said she has never heard of it at all.
BTW, Nelson did a cover of “She Sheila,” which seems odd.
I’m not sure how obscure Love or this song from 1966 are outside of LA, but I’ve been listening to it a lot lately. It’s not protopunk. It is punk!
That is some nice raw-throated Beatlesque singing. The only other song I’ve heard that had the style down so well was this one, although the similarities are more in the singing melody than in the exact voice per se, and it is raw in a slightly different way:
David Linley and El Rayo X
I had long known that Love’s “Forever Changes” is generally on “Greatest Albums Of All Time” lists, and some years back, I found a CD at a used-record store and purchased it. That’s definitely one purchase I have not regretted!
This is my personal favorite song off that album.
Man, I was thinking about tossing some David Linley up here! Good call!
I saw them play an outdoor show at Benbow on the Eel river back in the day, just blow us all away.
The Ramones covered this in 1983
So did Deep Purple
I first heard this song on Colin Furze’s YouTube channel and then started hearing it in many other YT vids.
I thought it was the Black Keys, but had to use Shazam to find the proper band and song name. I think that makes it pretty obscure.
Every time someone plays the intro to that song, the ears on Jeff Lynne’s lawyer prick up a little.