Counting Crows → Bob Dylan

Counting Crows had a radio hit with "Big Yellow Taxi". Who wrote it and put out the original recording decades before the Crows got to it?Joni Mitchelllearned

Joni Mitchell

Big Yellow Taxi · 1970 · via Counting Crows

Joni Mitchell wrote it and released it herself in 1970, more than thirty years before the Crows' version came out. Play hers first; you'll hear the song as its author meant it, and the rest of her catalog is right behind it.

Counting Crows took on "You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere," a song The Byrds had on record well before them. Who wrote it?Bob Dylanlearned

Bob Dylan & The Band

You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere · 1971 · via Counting Crows

The Byrds and Joan Baez both put this one out in 1968, and the writer's own take with The Band came out in 1971. Play that one next to the Crows and hear where the song started.