Dylan Cover #270 Patti LaBelle "Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine"

In this ongoing Monday Series we will be exploring various artists versions of Bob Dylan song's. Today's artists, Patti LaBelle doing a cover of "Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine" 

This month we have a special focus on Artists who will be playing the 2017 Jazzfest in New Orleans. Today we highlight Funk/Soul/Disco legend Patti LaBelle who will play the Congo Stage on Sunday, May 7th at 3:40pm.   

Thoughts on Original:
It's that thin, that wild mercury sound. It's metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up. Those are the phrases that Dylan himself used to describe the sound that he wanted on Blonde on Blonde. Safe to say he got it and perhaps never more so than on "Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine". That whirling organ that sounds like it may actually take flight, the tempo, the cutting lyric, man this song is a joy. We actually got to see him open a show way back with this one and it was a hoot, not as good as the original, but a gem to see live and hear anytime.

The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the Blonde on Blonde album. It's that thin, that wild mercury sound. It's metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up.

Cover:


Thoughts on Cover Artist:
LaBelle is a disco legend and her Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles took over the dance floor world with "Lady Marmalade" and she would later hit it huge in the 80's with "New Attitude". Her polished disco/80's R&B sound was never our cup of tea, but now we found this first solo album she put out in-between those two stages and we clearly need to go back and dig deeper.

Thoughts on Cover:
WOW! So we begin our month of focusing on artists playing this years Jazzfest covering Dylan and we came upon one of our favorite Dylan covers of all time with this version that Patti and crew makes FUNKY!  IT is a joy to behold from the first notes and LaBelle's singing is top notch throughout. Of course where did she record this album? New Orleans. Who played on it? None other than the great George Porter Jr. and Leo Nocentelli...half The Meters and all the funk. What a way to kick off this month, can't get better than this.