Link to Song: Mississippi
Sheryl Crow Cover: Mississippi
What you should know about this song:
In 2009, Rolling Stone named “Mississippi” the 17th best song of the decade, calling it “A drifter’s love song that seems to sum up Dylan’s entire career, and a rambling classic that ranks up there with ‘Tangled Up in Blue’” Rolling stone also listed it as number 260 in it list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Sheryl Crow recording the song for her 1998 The Globe Sessions, before Dylan released it for Love and Theft. Crow altered the melody, phrasing and arrangement for her recording. The version received strikingly mixed reviews, some referring to it as “remarkable” and others as “forgettable, head-bopping pop.” The Dixie Chicks also tried their hand at covering this tune.
“It was really an honor to get to do it. you can listen to one of his songs and think it’s so simple, you don’t even realize how intricate it actually is – the arc of the melody, the way he uses just two or three chords but everything builds to a great release. Recording that song made me re-evaluate songwriting.” – Sheryl Crow*
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications, Wikipedia
Photo Source: USA Today
