Dylan Channels Otis Rush on Beyond Here Lies Nothin'

Another Dylan album and some more re-writes of old blues songs. While 2006's Modern Times featured updates of The Levee's Gonna Break and Rollin' and Tumblin', the first track the new Together Through Life is Beyond Here Lies Nothin', which is Otis Rush's 1958 song All Your Love with new words.

Dylan's failure to credit Rush as the author of Beyond Here Lies Nothin' is strange given that Willie Dixon is credited as co-author of My Wife's Home Town, a Together track that borrows the melody of Dixon's much covered (Foghat, the Stones) I Just Want to Make Love to You. Could the discrepancy have anything to do with the fact that Dixon and his heirs have successfully fought to see him properly credited on the songs (including Whole Lotta Love) that Led Zeppelin tried to nick from him?

Since Rush is still with us and All Your Love is still under copyright, it'll be interesting to see if any legal action transpires. Here's the awesome cover of All Your Love by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton:



...and Beyond Here Lies Nothin', (note the guitar solo's similarity to Clapton's):