MAGGIE'S FARM

Created on 27/11/2000
Latest update on 22/02/2021

Artist: Bob Dylan
Author: Bob Dylan
Label: CBS
Year: 1965

Partly based on The Bently Boys' Down On Penny's Farm ('29 - Columbia) which Dylan knew through Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. (see there)

Covers:

1965:

Solomon Burke

1967:

Richie Havens

1969:

Flatt & Scruggs

1980:

Blues Band

1980:

Specials

1985:

Grateful Dead

1986:

U2

1989:

Tin Machine [with David Bowie]

1992:

Barbara Dickson

1992:

Walkabouts

1995:

Hugues Aufray [as Maggie la ferme]

2000:

Rage Against The Machine

2004:

Toots Hibbert

2007:

Stephen Malkmus [in film I'm Not There]

2010:

Ben Sidran

Many British cover versions during Maggie Thatcher's reign but nobody had the reflex to cover The Platters' Maggie Doesn't Work Here Anymore by the time she resigned.

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