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Bob Dylan: “The Times They Are A-Changin'”

Posted: January 17, 2026 in THE CLASH of Cover Tunes
Tags: A Complete Unknown, Bob Dylan, Brandi Carlile, Flogging Molly, Jason Isbell, Mike McCready, Phil Hanseroth, Playing for Change, Playing for Change feat. Brandie Carlile and Mike McCready, Roseanne Cash, Steve Earle, The Brothers and Sisters, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the times they are a-changin', The War and Treaty, Tim Hanseroth, Timothee Chalamet

Tune du Jour: “The Times They Are A-Chanin'” – Bob Dylan

THE CLASH of Cover Tunes: Flogging Molly vs. The Brothers and Sisters vs. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band feat. Roseanne Cash, Steve Earle, Jason Isbell and The War and Treaty vs. Playing for Change feat. Brandie Carlile and Mike McCready

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Sadly, Bob, while you optimistically predicted that the times were changing, you were right, however while they have been changing it is into such a much worse country than anything like what it was in the ’60s …

Of the early Dylan hits that we have all heard a million times, this is one that I will never tire of or stop being in stunned awe over the sheer brilliance of its lyrics.

The Original

Bob Dylan:

A Pretty Amazing Cover (and Outstanding Movie)

Timothee Chalamet, Actor Extraordinaire and Proud Knicks Fanatic:

THE CLASH of Cover Tunes

Flogging Molly vs. The Brothers and Sisters vs. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band feat. Roseanne Cash, Steve Earle, Jason Isbell and The War and Treaty Band vs. Playing for Change feat. Brandie Carlile and Mike McCready

Flogging Molly:

The Brothers and Sisters:

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band feat. Roseanne Cash, Steve Earl, Jason Isbell and The War and Treaty:

Playing for Change feat. Brandie Carlile and Mike McCready as well as Tim and Phil Hanseroth:

SPACE

Oh the disharmony! Much like Harlan County there are no neutrals here. It is your solemn responsibility to decide which cover song prevails. In other words … Which Side Are You On!??!

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Bob Dylan: “When The Ship Comes In”

Posted: April 10, 2015 in THE CLASH of Cover Tunes
Tags: Bertolt Brecht, Bob Dylan, Clinton Heylin, COVER SONGS, David Franklin, Gatorwood Sunshine Singers, i'll no longer shave for you, Joan Baez, Kurt Weill, pirate jenny, Robbie O'Connell, Suze Motolo, The Clancy Brothers, the threepenny opera, the times they are a-changin', Tommy Makem, when the ship comes in

Tune du Jour: “When The Ship Comes In” – Bob Dylan

THE CLASH of Cover Tunes:

David Franklin vs. The Clancy Brothers and Robbie O’Connell with Tommy Makem

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You used to be so amused,
At Broccoli Man,
and the carrot for a guitar he used …

When The Ship Comes In appears on Bob Dylan’s third album, The Times They Are A-Changin’, released in 1964. According to Joan Baez, Dylan wrote When The Ship Comes In in a hotel room, incensed, after the clerk initially denied him a room. The clerk had felt the remarkably unkempt Mr. Dylan was not the type of guest the establishment preferred to accommodate. Baez, who was traveling with Dylan, had to intervene on his behalf, vouching for his “good character”.

According to Dylan’s old girlfriend, Suze Motolo, as well as his biographer, Clinton Heylin, an additional inspiration for the song was probably Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill’s song, Pirate Jenny. Pirate Jenny, from the Threepenny Opera, tells of Jenny’s dark dream of a mysterious ship that arrives to vanquish her foes.

While these suppositions represent the generally accepted beliefs on the origin of the song, in fact, Dylan’s inspiration for When The Ship Comes In was actually the celebrated composition, I’ll No Longer Shave For You, by the criminally underappreciated Gatorwood Sunshine Singers, a tune that, oddly enough, would not be written until decades later.