In 1969, Nina Simone covered a Bob Dylan song and included it on her studio album To Love Somebody. Though the track never charted, it is now considered one of the best covers of the folk legend’s music. In fact, it was ranked the No. 2 greatest Bob Dylan cover of all time on an expansive list of 80 titles.
The lineup, published by Rolling Stone, included several artists spanning decades and genres—from rock and R&B to soul and blues. It placed Simone’s rendition of “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” in the second spot, coming in under only The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s “All Along the Watchtower” (1968) in the top No. 1 ranking. (Dylan himself reportedly said to Hendrix, “I don’t know if anyone has done my songs better,” according to the famed music publication).
The two musicians reportedly first met on the New York folk circuit in the early 1960s, and Simone covered several of Dylan’s tracks throughout her career. “This Highway 61 Revisited song is one of three Dylan numbers she included on her 1969 LP To Love Somebody,” the outlet noted. “Her piano gives it a soft, shuffling rhythm and her vocal is gentle and exploratory—where Dylan rambled across the countryside he sang about, Simone floats.”
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The tune tells the sad story of the writer’s experiences in Juarez, Mexico, where he encounters pain, poverty, sickness, addiction, and despair before deciding to head back to NYC. “Well I started out on burgundy / But soon hit the harder stuff / Everybody said they’d stand behind me / When the game got rough / Oh, but the joke was on me / There was noone there even to bluff / I’m going back to New York City / I do believe I’ve had enough,” the hauntingly vulnerable lyrics express, per Genius.
Simone’s entry joins plenty of other Dylan covers from over the decades, including The Byrds’ “Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965), Elvis Presley’s “Tomorrow Is a Long Time” (1966), and Guns N’ Roses’ “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” (1991).
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