I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind, you could have done better but I don’t mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time.

All day long I've been listening to the live Eddie from Ohio cover of Don't Think Twice It's Alright. (I also have it off the studio album, but the ipod randomized on the live track.)

Eddie From Ohio, contrary to the promise in their name, actually hails from Virginia. Their touring is more limited now than it used to be due to the lead singer developing breast cancer (she survived and is now an outspoken advocate of breast cancer awareness programs.) They are well worth seeing if they come around your area.

If you follow the link to their website and click on "EFO Radio" in the upper right corner you can listen to a good selection of their music (both originals and covers.) Her vocals are reminiscent of Indigo Girls or perhaps a Celtic band you can't quite put your fingers on. What really sets them apart, for me, is the quality of brightness I hear in their music. Whether it's on guitar, fiddle, bongos or harmonica, there's a quality reminiscent of sunlight in their music. Even in the harmonies of a gospel-soul inspired song like Oh My Brother, that sense of brightness and hope comes through even the heaviest moments of the song.

They have a very large discography, but it's hard to go wrong with any of their albums as far as I have discovered.

I don't know how many times I've listened to the version from Disc 1 of Three Rooms on ye olde ipod today. Every time the song ends, I just want to start it over and listen again rather than move on. Some days, some songs and some albums are just like that...

And right now, Don't Think Twice, It's Alright is one of those songs...

I love this song, it's one of my favorite Dylan songs to hear covered (as well as one of the most popular) and I personally own somewhere over 30 versions of it by all different artists. The first cover version of it that I can remember hearing was as a child when Vonda Shepard covered it during an episode of Ally McBeal. Personally, having Vonda Shepard in practically every episode was one of my favorite things about that show. I loved her voice and how soulful she could be, even when it was just her and a piano, to bring forth the emotional heart of the episode through her voice and music. She always had so much soul, in a cover as much as her own original songs, that you she made you feel the emotions of the song just as fully. It's a real gift when a performer can do that...

It would be hard to pick a favorite cover version of the song...there are so many beautiful versions. I don't think I've ever (yet) heard a musician choose to cover this song and not put their everything in it. I'm sure there are those who can, and have, slaughtered it...but I have yet to acquire copies of these versions. If you look into other versions of this song, you're guaranteed to find at least one version you love. Perhaps the most famous cover is that by Peter, Paul and Mary; but it has been covered by everyone -- from classic country takes like Elvis and Johnny Cash, to female folk singer-songwriters Joan Baez and even modern-day superstar John Mayer covered it during his 2010 tour in Australia and NZ.) I'm sure you'll find at least one version that connects the words and the melody to your own heart.

Here are the lyrics, officially, from Dylan if you don't know the song. I know everyone who covers a song makes it their own, even if it's their own original song every musician changes the words as time goes by... But these are the original lyrics, copyright 1963, per Dylan. So they're the version I'll post.

"It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don’t matter, anyhow.
An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don’t know by now.
When the rooster crows at the break of dawn,
Look out your window and I’ll be gone.
You’re the reason I’m trav’lin’ on --
Don’t think twice, it’s all right.

It ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe,
That light I've never known.
An’ it ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe,
I’m on the dark side of the road.
Still I wish there was somethin’ you would do or say,
To try and make me change my mind and stay.
We never did too much talkin’ anyway.
So don’t think twice, it’s all right.

It ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, gal,
Like you never did before.
It ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, gal,
I can’t hear you anymore.
I’m a-thinkin’ and a-wond’rin’ all the way down the road,
I once loved a woman, a child I’m told.
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul --
But don’t think twice, it’s all right

I’m walkin’ down that long, lonesome road, babe.
Where I’m bound, I can’t tell.
But goodbye’s too good a word, gal,
So I’ll just say fare thee well.
I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind,
You could have done better but I don’t mind.
You just kinda wasted my precious time.
But don’t think twice, it’s all right"