Bob Dylan covers, even entire albums of other artists covering Dylan songs, are not uncommon. What makes Bettye LaVette's new Things Have Changed special is her sterling reputation as a song interpreter. Her talent as a performer, applied to the songs of arguably the greatest single songwriter of the past few decades, is definitely worth hearing. Although LaVette picks a couple of Dylan's most well known songs from the '60s, she also draws from other decades, with some deep album cuts proving to be inspired choices for the vocalist. Also inspired are many of the arrangements LaVette and her band worked up for these tunes, particularly for "The Times They Are A-Changin'."
Here are the Top 30 new releases played on Studio One Tracks for the week ending Feb. 4, 2018:
1 Robert Finley- Goin' Platinum!
2 Tune-Yards- I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life
3 Bettye LaVette- Things Have Changed
4 Ty Segall- Freedom's Goblin
5 They Might Be Giants- I Like Fun
6 Porches- The House
7 De Lux- More Disco Songs About Love
8 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings- Soul of A Woman
9 Calexico- The Thread That Keeps Us
10 Neil Young + Promise Of The Real- The Visitor
11 Darling West- While I Was Asleep
12 Mavis Staples- If All I Was Was Black
13 Jamila Woods- HEAVN
14 Johnny Jewel- Digital Rain
15 Death Of Lovers- The Acrobat
16 Mimicking Birds- Layers Of Us
17 OCS- Memory Of A Cut Off Head
18 Typhoon- Offerings
19 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats- Live At Red Rocks
20 Sun Parade- Shuggy Mtn Breakdown
21 Kyle Craft- Full Circle Nightmare
22 Spice Boys- Glade
23 Umphrey's McGee- It's Not Us
24 Fever Ray- Plunge
25 Destroyer- Ken
26 The She's- All Female Rock And Roll Quintet
27 Mickey Hart- RAMU
28 Chris Thile- Thanks For Listening
29 The Prids- Do I Look Like I'm In Love?
30 Julien Baker- Turn Out The Lights