This is the cover of one of his songs that Bob Dylan prefers

Bob Dylan During his long career he wrote an unknown number of songs. Many of these have been interpreted by other artists who have made it covers, for better or for worse. Many of these covers liked the native musician of the State of Minnesota, but one more than the others.

He wrote that the version of Johnny Rivers Of “Positively 4th Street” It was his favorite cover of his songs. In his book “Chronicles” He wrote: “Of all the versions of my songs, the version of Johnny Rivers of ‘Positively 4th Street’ was my favorite.

It was obvious that we were in the same part of the city, we had read the same quotes, we came from the same musical family and we were made of the same fabric. I liked his version more than mine. “

And he continued again: “Most of the covers of my songs seem to take somewhere out of the way. But the version of Rivers had the attitude and the melodic sense to complete and even overcome the feeling I had put in it. Due to surprising me. life had the same taken on him he had on me. “

“Positively 4th Street”
was published by
Bob Dylan
In 1965 as a single. Three years later, in 1968,
Johnny Rivers
He made a cover that was included in the album
“Realization”
.

Johnny Rivers Of course he was very happy with Dylan’s compliment, as he explained a few years ago in an interview with Las Vegas Magazine.

“Speaking of books, Bob Dylan’s book,” Chronicles: (volume) One “. He wrote an entire paragraph on me and said that my recording of” positively 4th street “, of all the registered versions of the His songs, it was his favorite. Nice compliment there are thousands of recordings of his songs. His favorite.

Johnny Rivers Once he declared that he did not like rap music, but that he believed that Bob Dylan was one of the first rappers. The reason was in his texts, such as “Johnny’s in the basement, mixing up the medicine …”, the incipit of “Subterranean Homesick Blues”another 1965 Dylan song.