# What's the best Dylan song that he's never played in concert? The best song he's played only once?
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**Created:** [October 30, 2016, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-dylan-song-that-hes-never-played-in-concert-the-best-song-hes-played-only-once/770102 "2016-10-30T10:42:14Z")
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-dylan-song-that-hes-never-played-in-concert-the-best-song-hes-played-only-once/770102/21 "2016-11-01T01:13:28Z")
Crap. No.
It was “If You Have to Go, Go Now (Or Else You’ll Have to Stay All Night).”
Also a great song.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-dylan-song-that-hes-never-played-in-concert-the-best-song-hes-played-only-once/770102/22 "2016-11-01T01:15:49Z")
Good album for Dylan freaks, though…it also includes an exemplary “Percy’s Song” and “Million Dollar Bash.”
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-dylan-song-that-hes-never-played-in-concert-the-best-song-hes-played-only-once/770102/23 "2016-11-01T01:27:38Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Good album for Dylan freaks, though…it also includes an exemplary “Percy’s Song” and “Million Dollar Bash.”
Fairport were big on selecting obscure Dylan songs to cover! That was their third album; the first had included “Jack of Diamonds” (a musical setting of one of the poems from the back cover of _Another Side of Bob Dylan_) the second included a sublime version of “I’ll Keep It with Mine,” and they recorded “Ballad of Easy Rider” for the fourth, but it was left off the final running order (didn’t fit the album’s very British theme).
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-dylan-song-that-hes-never-played-in-concert-the-best-song-hes-played-only-once/770102/24 "2016-11-01T01:50:15Z")
Are we talking about \*Fairport \*Convention (Richard Thompson)?
If so, did they do an album of Dylan covers that I’ve missed?
mmm
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-dylan-song-that-hes-never-played-in-concert-the-best-song-hes-played-only-once/770102/25 "2016-11-01T02:12:39Z")
Yeah, FAIRPORT. Blame my spellchecker.
See last three posts for their early Dylan covers.
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### Author:  [@pseudograph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudograph)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-dylan-song-that-hes-never-played-in-concert-the-best-song-hes-played-only-once/770102/26 "2016-11-01T22:00:38Z")
Definitely agree with “Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts” and would add “Up to Me” from Biograph.
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### Author:  [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-dylan-song-that-hes-never-played-in-concert-the-best-song-hes-played-only-once/770102/27 "2016-11-02T19:57:46Z")
Someday I’d like to read that he has performed “Stuck in the Middle with You”, if only to show he has a sense of humor about that Stealers Wheel song.
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-dylan-song-that-hes-never-played-in-concert-the-best-song-hes-played-only-once/770102/28 "2016-11-02T20:16:15Z")
> [@NeonMadman](#):
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> I think what you mean is that \*\*Hendrix \*\*did an amazing cover of \*\*Dylan’s \*\*song, “All Along the Watchtower.”
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> ETA: Ah, but I see the wink emoticon; missed that the first time…
Yeah, just a joke riffing off the reality that if ever another artist made a Dylan song his own, it was Hendrix with AATW.
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