( EW.com ) -- Bob Dylan never wrote any songs about body glitter or throwing up in the closet . So one may wonder why Ke $ ha appears on Amnesty International 's new benefit disc `` Chimes of Freedom , '' a 76-track collection of Dylan covers that also features Adele ( `` Make You Feel My Love '' ) , Maroon 5 ( `` I Shall Be Released '' ) , and yes , Miley Cyrus ( `` You 're Gon na Make Me Lonesome When You Go '' ) , among others . But on her stripped-down `` Do n't Think Twice , It 's All Right , '' Ke $ ha gets the song 's heartbreak right ; you can actually hear her sobbing between verses . If there 's ever a reason to believe the girl 's capable of deeper feelings than `` vaguely hungover , '' this is it . To quote from the 1964 Dylan song that gives this comp its name , Bob has always been a champion of `` the countless confused , accused , misused , strung-out ones , an ' worse . '' So it makes sense that the best covers here come from the misfits ( Ke $ ha ) , the punks ( check out Rise Against 's raging `` Ballad of Hollis Brown '' ) , the outsiders ( Mexican pop star Ximena SariÃ±ana 's excellent `` I Want You '' ) , and the radicals ( `` With God on Our Side '' finds Somali-born Toronto rapper K'naan challenging American hawkishness as only a Canadian can ) . Aretha Franklin calls off engagement . The savviest musicians here flip Dylan 's messages for their own aims , just as Dylan reappropriated protest songs by civil rights heroes . Celtic-rock stalwarts Flogging Molly take on `` The Times They Are A-Changin ' `` -- which itself was inspired by Irish drinking songs -- and reclaim it for Dublin . SinÃ©ad O'Connor recasts 1981 's born-again `` Property of Jesus '' as a fiery church-reform anthem . And Carly Simon smartly plays `` Just Like a Woman '' as a feminist ballad . When she sings `` You break just like a little girl , '' it sounds like she 's telling Dylan to man up . There 's just one problem . That leaves 60-something more songs , and an unholy amount of strummy-strummy-strum ( though you can buy digital tracks individually , and an edited two-disc version is available for $ 14.95 at Starbucks ) . Diana Krall , Billy Bragg , Pete Townshend , and other major talents opt for straight , folky readings of songs that beg for a reggaeton arrangement or a brostep remix -- anything to update the same classics we 've heard a bajillion times before . True , Ziggy Marley and Michael Franti bring some freshness , but even they ca n't resist those bland open-mic-at-the-fair-trade-coffee-shop guitars . Where 's the prankster spirit that got Dylan booed at Newport ? Apologies to Brett Dennen and Dierks Bentley , whose respective rootsy spins on `` You Ai n't Goin ' Nowhere '' and `` SeÃ±or '' are lovely , but after listening to your trillionth fingerpicking solo , it 's easy to think , `` Dylan went electric for this ? '' Tracy Morgan taken to hospital in Utah . By contrast , Kronos Quartet and Philip Glass sound almost revolutionary on their gorgeous , avant-classical `` Do n't Think Twice , It 's All Right , '' the only song that appears twice here . It takes major innovation ( and some musical-saw interludes ) to create a wholly original take on an artist who reinvents his own songs every time he plays live . And maybe that 's why covering Dylan seems so hard : At a time when every subway busker thinks he 's the Bard , the only man who 's really the `` new Bob Dylan '' is Dylan himself . B- . See full article at EW.com . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
Covering Dylan seems so hard : The only man who 's really the `` new Dylan '' is Dylan himself . On Ke $ ha 's stripped-down `` Do n't Think Twice , It 's All Right , '' she gets the song 's heartbreak right . Carly Simon smartly plays `` Just Like a Woman '' as a feminist ballad . The savviest musicians here flip Dylan 's messages for their own aims .