Rural Ledge-ucation #11: Bob Dylan's 70th Birthday

The world's greatest songwriter turns 70 on Tuesday, May 24, so it seems fitting that this week's Rural Ledge-ucation celebrates this milestone with an episode of cover versions of his great tunes. It's probably even more fitting that the sources for these tracks come from bootlegs. There are 35 volumes of a bootleg series entitled Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, and this show proves they're all full of great treasures.

Listen to it now via the iPhone/Android app, or download the actual file here.

This week's playlist includes:

1. Grateful Dead, Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
2. Jason and the Scorchers, Absolutely Sweet Marie
3. New Barbarians, Seven Days
4. Long Ryders, Highway 61 Revisited
5. Willie Nile, All Along the Watchtower
6. The Blue Aeroplanes, I Wanna Be Your Lover
7. Steve Wynn, Positively 4th Street
8. John Wesley Harding, Wiggle Wiggle
9. Peter Case, Black Crow Blues
10. Billy Bragg, Don't Think Twice It's Alright
11. Paul Westerberg, All I Really Want to Do
12. Paul Kelly, I Threw It All Away
13. Steve Kilbey, Is Your Love In Vain?
14. Lloyd Cole, It's all Over Now Baby Blue
15. The Waterboys, Hard Rain
16. Richard Hell, Going Going Gone
17. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
18. Patti Smith, Wicked Messenger
19. PJ Harvey, Highway 61 Revisited
20. Cracker, The Man In Me
21. Alejandro Escovedo, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
22. Blue Rodeo, Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
23. Coffee Creek, Wallflower
24. Jeff Tweedy, I Threw It All Away
25. Jay Bennett & Edward Burch, One Too Many Mornings
26. Jimmie Dale Gilmore, She Belongs to Me
27. The Jayhawks, You Ain't Going Nowhere
28. Steve Earle, It Takes a Lot to Laugh It Takes a Train to cry
29. John Doe, Buckets of Rain
30. My Morning Jacket, The Man In Me
31. Mumford and Sons, Wagon Wheel
32. Wilco, I Shall Be Released