Your Daily Dose of Dylan, Part 9 Below Zero and Three O'Clock in the Afternoon

Of all the versions of my recorded songs, the Johnny Rivers one was my favorite. It was obvious that we were from the same side of town, had been read the same citations, came from the same musical family and were cut from the same cloth. When I listened to Johnny's version of "Positively 4th Street," I liked his version better than mine. I listened to it over and over again. Most of the cover versions of my songs seemed to take them out into left field somewhere, but Rivers's version had the mandate down--the attitude and melodic sense to complete and surpass even the feeling that I had put into it. -- from Chronicles, Volume One