Drug use and attempts at psychedelic music moved out of acoustic folk-based music towards rock soon after The Byrds " plugged in " to produce a chart topping version of Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man in the summer of 1965, which became a folk rock standard.

The Band appeared at Bob Dylan's 30th anniversary concert celebration in New York City in October 1992, where they performed their version of Dylan's " When I Paint My Masterpiece ".

In 1989, A & M released The Best of Tim Curry on CD and cassette, featuring songs from his albums ( including a live version of " Alan ") and a previously unreleased song, a live cover version of Bob Dylan's " Simple Twist of Fate ".

It also featured a cover of Bob Dylan's " It's All Over Now, Baby Blue ", a version Dylan is rumored to have called his favorite.

On occasion a cover becomes more popular and well-known than the original like Santana's version in 1970 of Peter Green's and Fleetwood Mac's 1968 song Black Magic Woman or Jimi Hendrix's version of Bob Dylan's " All Along the Watchtower ".

The Hendrix version, released six months after Dylan's original, became a Top 10 single in 1968 and was ranked 48th in Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

" Burke's version was released just prior to Dylan's own single release, and outperformed it on the charts.

The release of The Byrds ' cover version of Dylan's " Mr. Tambourine Man " and its subsequent commercial success initiated the folk rock explosion of the mid-1960s.

Prior to recording with Albini, the band recorded a second session with John Peel on 22 September and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's " Highway 61 Revisited ," and two new songs " Me Jane " and " Ecstasy.

The band became notable for several Top 40 hits beginning with their cover version of Bob Dylan's " It Ain't Me Babe " in 1965.

The band had several minor hits, including " Golden Ball and Chain " and a blistering rock version of Bob Dylan's " Absolutely Sweet Marie.

The album also included a version of Arthur Crudup's " That's All Right ( Mama )" ( the first single for Elvis Presley ) and a cover of the Bob Dylan song " Tomorrow Is a Long Time ," an outtake from Dylan's 1963 album The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan ( it would see release on 1971's, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol.

Elysian Fields ' version of Bob Dylan's " Tangled up in Blue " can be heard in the film's credits.

The group attempted a comeback by recording a highly commercial version of Dylan's " Mr. Tambourine Man ," but were unable to release it due to licensing issues, and The Byrds eventually stole their thunder by releasing their heralded version.

Her version of Bob Dylan's " A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall " is featured on the film's soundtrack.

A remixed version of " Dignity " featuring new overdubs was released on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3, while the original Lanois production would not see release until the soundtrack album of the television show, Touched by an Angel.

Their version of " If I Had a Hammer " became an anthem for racial equality, as did Bob Dylan's " Blowin ' in the Wind ", which they performed at the August 1963 March on Washington.

He eventually signed with the small Elephant V label, before moving on to Probe Records, where he had his last R & B hit in 1970 with a version of Bob Dylan's " I Shall Be Released.

Eric Clapton recorded a reggae influenced version of the song produced by Albhy Galuten in August 1975 and released it as a single later that year, almost two years after Dylan's original track was released, using Arthur Louis's arrangement.

In Math fab Mathonwy it is told that Dylan's great uncle Math would die if he did not keep his feet in the lap of a virgin when not at war.

" When asked to identify his favorite Christian singers, in 1985 Norman indicated: " For music, I would say that Bob Dylan's Slow Train Coming is the best Christian album ever recorded.

Dylan's material would provide much of the original grist for the folk rock mill, not only in the U. S. but in the UK as well, with many pop and rock acts covering his material in a style reminiscent of The Byrds.

This was Dylan's first paid performance since his motor cycle accident some three years earlier, and was held at a time when many still wondered if he would ever perform again.

" First published in Folksong USA, Dylan's " hotel " recording would later be included on The Bootleg Series Vol.

By then, both Dylan's reputation and his stockpile of original compositions would have grown considerably.

" ( Dated May 1871 ) Dylan's early experimentation with hallucinogens has often been connected with the dramatic development his songwriting would soon take, but Dylan himself has denied any connection.

Described by Riley as " the unalloyed sting of a romantic perfidy ", " I Don't Believe You ( She Acts Like We Never Have Met )" would be dramatically rearranged for a full-electric rock band during Dylan's famous 1966 tour with The Hawks.

Though " Mr. Tambourine Man " would be re-recorded for Dylan's next album, Sony released the complete take recorded for Another Side of Bob Dylan on The Bootleg Series Vol.

" The next day, Cash would perform Dylan's " Don't Think Twice, It's All Right " as part of his set, telling the audience that " we've been doing it on our shows all over the country, trying to tell the folks about Bob, that we think he's the best songwriter of the age since Pete Seeger ... Sure do.

The concert was organized by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young, spurred on by Bob Dylan's comments at Live Aid earlier in that year that he hoped some of the money would help American farmers in danger of losing their farms through mortgage debt.

By 1962, they were living in New York City where they caught the attention of manager Albert Grossman, who managed Peter, Paul and Mary and would soon become Bob Dylan's manager.

Pennebaker would also film Dylan's subsequent tour of England in 1966, but while some of this work has been released in different forms ( supplying the framework for Martin Scorsese's Bob Dylan documentary, No Direction Home, and re-edited by Dylan himself in the rarely-distributed Eat the Document ), Pennebaker's own film of the tour ( Something Is Happening ) remains unreleased.

Dylan's idea of forming his own band, who would later be known as the Rolling Thunder Revue, came when he saw Patti Smith and her group play at The Other End ( formerly, and currently renamed The Bitter End ) on June 26, 1975.

" conversion wasn't one of those things that happens when an alcoholic goes to Alcoholics Anonymous ," David Mansfield, one of Dylan's band members and fellow-born-again Christian, would later say.

When Rolling Stone magazine wrote " it would be unfair to compare Oh Mercy to Dylan's landmark Sixties recordings ", author Clinton Heylin countered this remark, arguing that the Oh Mercy sessions had the songs to compete with Dylan's most celebrated work.

Furthermore, such critics may have simply missed the point ; with the exception of its lone hit, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was a spare, mostly instrumental soundtrack album that many would later find to be of great integrity, once they ceased to expect the work to be just another of Bob Dylan's " modern poetry " works.

" Chimes of Freedom " was an important part of Dylan's live concert repertoire throughout most of 1964, although by the latter part of that year he had ceased performing it and would not perform it again until 1987, when he revived the song for concerts with the Grateful Dead and with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

After extensive touring behind Tambourine, Merritt rented an apartment in Paris, where she wrote the songs that would become 2008's Another Country album .< ref > Before signing with a new label and making that record, Merritt performed Dylan's " A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall " at the I'm Not There tribute concert at New York City's Beacon Theater on November 7, 2007, with guitarist Joe Henry.

According to Lou Kemp, a friend of Dylan's who eventually organized the tour, the Rolling Thunder Revue " would go out at night and run into people, and we'd just invite them to come with us.

" Dylan's portrayal of Carla as the ' parasite sister ' remains a cruel and inaccurate portrait of a woman who had started out as one of biggest fans, and changed only as she came to see the degrees of emotional blackmail he subjected her younger sister to.

Dylan's recording from Blue Rock would only see release on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol.

The simple inhabitants see the flashes of light and the amplified voices as the sight and sound of " God ", but Dylan's team ends the dominance of the priesthood when they come up with still better tricks.