16 - I'm Not There (Soundtrack)

“Simple Twist Of Fate”

“Simple Twist Of Fate” – Jeff Tweedy – I’m Not There

It’s almost too easy…get a huge stable of talent to cover songs by one of the great songwriters of our era; bam, ship it. There are dozens of great Dylan covers on this soundtrack, and ironically, I can’t find a single one on YouTube, so you'll have to go to the album’s myspace page to hear a sampling if you don’t have Rhapsody.

Dylan covers are interesting because of Dylan’s distinct, defining vocal stylings…every cover falls somewhere on the scale of “not aping Dylan at all” to “totally aping Dylan.” Antony and the Johnsons doing “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” and Cat Power’s “Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again” show that you can be successful from either end of that scale.