I’m not wavering from Hendrix/Warchtower as the best cover, but I had forgotten just how mighty this was:
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ETA: the reason I remembered this cover was that I was idly wondering which was the most covered Dylan song. The answer is depressingly obvious, according to second hand songs: Blowin’ In The Wind
Make You Feel My Love comes second.
I’m pretty fond of this KT Tunstall version of Simple Twist of Fate.
Here’s my fave, a cover of “A Simple Twist of Fate” by the fantastic Johnette Napolitano & her band Concrete Blonde. Johnette’s is the kind of expressive voice that can give new life to any song.
Joan Baez doesn’t just cover “It Ain’t Me Babe” she imitates Dylan as well.
Almost forgot this one.
Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell came up with this awesome instrumental version of A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Couldn’t resist:
Here’s a romp through the song by the man himself you might enjoy (from the 1975 leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue)
Huh. I think this is the first time I’ve ever heard anybody other than Johnny Cash sing that.
Old Crow Medicine Show did the whole album of Blonde on Blonde. It’s great.
And, the OP notwithstanding, The rolling Stones have been doing a great cover of Like a Rolling Stone for a looong time.
Great one I’ve never heard before! Van even dares to alter some lyrics! They’re soul brothers.
There’s of course also Them’s classic cover of “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”.
A lot of good stuff has been posted. As for Dylan interpreters, IMHO the best are the most obvious, the Byrds, and then Rod Stewart with or without the Faces. He had a definite knack for picking deep Dylan cuts and making them into something great. And the two greatest compilations of Dylan covers are the 30th recording anniversary (Bobfest) recordings and the soundtrack of “I’m Not There”. Great, great stuff on both.
Also worth seeking out is the video “One Irish Rover” which features a duet between Van and Bob on a couple of songs.
An early rendition of a Dylan cover by one of my favorite interpreters.
The chorus should go, “like MEEEE!”.
Baez also does a cover of Simple Twist of Fate with some imitation going on.
Walter Trout is freaking amazing. He battled liver disease (cirrhosis) for years, looking like a walking skeleton at one point. Had a transplant and over a year’s worth of recovery.
Two: The Jimi Hendrix One
(also his Like a Rolling Stone)
Coming in strong: The earlier Keith Emerson band The Nice
Nice. (Concrete Blonde)