With a few exceptions in favor of the Byrds (their Back Pages is so good), I prefer Bob.
He’s a juggernaut. Take a song like Tom Thumb’s Blues, just run the YouTube search and everyone from Neil Young, Nina Simone, Grateful Dead, Brian Ferry and Tom Waits have covered it.
But none comes close to Dylan’s IMO - it’s perfect
yes but tangled up in blue
someone earlier said all covers of Dylan songs are improvements - I've made that argument about Leonard Cohen. LC deliberately under performed his songs bc he wanted the words/poetry to be foremost
When someone covers Dylan they don't make a better song, they make a different song