Everyone heard Janis Joplin's version - and loved it. But...

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...how about the Man in Black at the height of his power? There is a terrible simplicity to everything he does, and I for one feel that he means every word.

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I doubt it. The story goes that when he and Dylan first met, at some folk festival in the early sixties, Dylan walked all around him and said, "Wow!" You could not believe it of anyone else, but you can of him. He has the presence of a monument. The great thing about YouTube is that you can listen to a sequel of different interpretations of a song, and I heard Kris Kristofferson and Judy Collins (curiously underwhelming), Dolly Parton (excellent though with one or two "Lord!" too many) and Jerry Lee Lewis (incredibly exciting), beside being already familiar with Janis, but this one still stood out.