POP CULTURE

Joe Cocker’s Dylan Covers Continue To Reward Listeners

With a little help from his friends.

Joe Cocker and his Grease Band at Woodstock, 1969. Public domain.

Bob Dylan earned the Nobel Prize “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” He not only consumed the music, he re-shaped it, gave it new luster, and shared it in new forms. It would be comparable to inventing and adding new…