This week we celebrate the opening of the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Center is the new home for the Dylan archives. On the show we’ll hear a collection of cover versions of Bob’s tunes by many performers, including Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Fairport Convention, The Byrds, Colin James, Eric Bibb and many more. We’ll also offer a review of the new CD from The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Dirt Does Dylan, also a collection of Dylan covers. Congratulations to Bob on his special occasion … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Bob Dylan / “Untitled 1970 Instrumental #2” / 1970 / Columbia
Eric Bibb / “The Times They Are A Changin’” / Deeper in the Well / Stony Plain
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings / “Abandoned Love” / All the Good Times / Acony
Mike Seeger / “Maggie’s Farm” / Retrograss / Acoustic Disc
Fairport Convention / “Percy’s Song” / Unhalfbricking / Island

Judy Collins / “I’ll Keep it with Mine” / Great Lost Elektra Singles Vol. 1 / Elektra
Ramblin’ Jack Elliot / “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” / Me & Bobby McGee / Rounder
The Byrds / “Nothing Was Delivered” / Sweetheart of the Rodeo / Columbia
Bob Dylan / “Untitled 1970 Instrumental #1” / 1970 / Columbia

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / “I Shall Be Released” / Dirt Does Dylan / NGDB
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / “She Belongs to Me” / Dirt Does Dylan / NGDB
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / “ Forever Young” / Dirt Does Dylan / NGDB

Fairport Convention / “Si Tu Dois Patir” / Unhalfbricking / Island
Colin James / “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” / Open Road / Stony Plain
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways