What The?

What do Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Davey Jones, Nancy Sinatra, The Turtles, and OilCan Drive have in common?

Apparently, we've all done a cover of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe."

I just never realized that anyone would ever recognize it. But, while surfing around the web last night I came across DylanCoverAlbums.com, a site that specializes in cataloguing every band who has done a Bob Dylan cover song. And there, under "It Ain't Me Babe", surrounded by Johnny Cash and Davey Jones, was the OilCan Drive cover I created for the CD single a little less than a year ago.

The official listing for the single is as follows:
[3b.1]..OilCan Drive • CD-S: Plastic Spoon no# (US, 2009; 1 track)

You can see the page I found HERE. It's about halfway down the page and the listing is beneath it a bit.

To say I was floored is to put it mildly.

I always figured I was doing music and goofy CD covers for myself and a few friends and family members to see. That someone outside of that circle sat up and actually noticed what I was doing is just amazing. I still have no idea how the people who run this site found out about the band or the single. But, somehow they did. And, that actually gives me hope that I am on the right track.

The official rules for getting listed on the site are:
a. Any format full-length ALBUM with a Dylan song as the TITLE TRACK
b. Any format SINGLE or EP with a picture-sleeve, insert or cover with a Dylan song shown on the sleeve, either as the A, B-side or EP track
c. Any "unofficial" BOOTLEG compilation or live recording with a Dylan song as the TITLE TRACK
d. Translated titles are included, either lyrics & title translated -or- title-only translated.
e. No non-standard contracted or expanded titles (with a few exceptions)
f . To qualify as a Dylan title, the song must satisfy one or both of these rules:
• Listed in the song list at bobdylan.com, with the copyright being for composition, not just arrangement
• Listed in the book "Lyrics 1962-1985" published by Knopf, 1985

So, I must have qualified.

Of course, if Bob himself sees that I've done a cover song of his I might have to write an all new original song called, "If Bob Dylan comes a knockin, looking for a royalty check, tell him I ain't home."

Maybe he'll be nice enough to do a cover of it.

Update: If anyone is interested in hearing the cover song OilCan Drive did of Bob's "It Ain't Me Babe" it can be heard HERE.