Dylan cover of the day 26: Dear Landlord

By Tony Attwood

Maybe there is something wrong with me today for I have been plodding through cover after cover trying to find something I want to share with you.   I mean, why can’t I find a brilliant cover version of “Dark Eyes” on the internet?  Maybe I am just not looking properly.

So I have moved on to Dear Landlord and found a couple of versions that I enjoy.  Of course, this first one doesn’t require any searching because I’ve called upon this album so often…

I guess the Fairport version is one that lots of us know.

But this last one was found by Jochen in his review in 2019.  It was worth special attention then, and it certainly still is.  The accompaniment is not like anything I have ever heard before.  Unique, original, enterprising, challenging – whoever wrote the arrangement needs a medal.  Wow.

The picture at the top of the page is of Mirah.

• Dylan cover of the day: Number 1. The song with numbers in the title.
• Dylan cover of the day. No 2: Ain’t Talkin
• Bob Dylan cover of the day No3: All I really want to do
• Dylan cover of the day No4: Angelina
• Dylan covers of the day No 5. Apple Suckling and Are you Ready.
• Cover version of the day No 6: As I went out one morning
• Dylan cover of the day No 7: Ballad for a Friend
• Dylan Cover of the Day No 8: Ballad in Plain D
• Dylan Cover of the Day No 9: Ballad of a thin man
• Dylan cover No. 10: The stunning reworking of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
• Dylan cover of the day No 11: The ballad of Hollis Brown
• A Dylan cover a day No 12: Beyond here lies nothing
• Dylan cover of the day No 13: Blind Willie McTell
• Dylan Cover of the Day 14: Black Crow Blues (more fun than you might recall)
• Dylan Cover of the Day 15: An unexpected cover of “Black Diamond Bay”
• Dylan Cover of the Day 16: Blowin in the wind as never before
• Dylan Cover of the Day 17: Bob Dylan’s Dream
• Dylan Cover of the Day 18: You will not believe this… 115th Dream revisited
• Dylan cover of the day 19: Boots of Spanish leather
• Dylan cover of the day 20: Born in Time
• Dylan cover of the day 21: Buckets of Rain
• Dylan cover of the day: 22 Can you please crawl out your window
• Dylan cover of the day 23: Can’t wait
• Dylan Cover of the Day 24: Changing of the Guard
• Dylan Cover of the Day 25: Chimes of Freedom

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