♪♫ Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Bob Dylan (Cover)

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan. It was originally released on the album Highway 61 Revisited. It was recorded on August 2, 1965, the same day as Dylan recorded Ballad of a Thin Man, Highway 61 Revisited and Queen Jane Approximately. It is considered one of Dylan's 1960's masterpieces, and a comic tour de force.

Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot was the first to cover the song, shortly after the release of Highway 61 Revisited. Issued as a non-LP single in early October 1965, Lightfoot's version of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" was a #3 hit in Canada. The song has also been covered many other times. A live cover by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young is included on the album The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration. Others who have covered the song include Judy Collins, Frankie Miller, The String Cheese Incident, Nina Simone, Bryan Ferry (on the 2007 album Dylanesque), Linda Ronstad and the Grateful Dead, who have covered it extensively live in concerts such as View From the Vault. Nina Simone's version differs in tone from Dylan's. While Dylan's version is someone sympathetic, if sneering, towards the foolish subject, Simone's version is an intense, first-person account of illusions being crushed, until at the end she is helpless in the hands of fate.

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[arbi84]

loved the arrangement, this is a great cover, keep it up!

[AshAlmond]

@arbi84 Thanks mate

[PurpleHouse2658]

NIce job, not only on the performance, but also on your text/commentary/"liner-notes." I had not known about Nina Simone's cover, I'll have to look it up.

[MusicianStanKilkes]

ONE OF MY FAVES.NICE JOB!