One Highly Coverted Song

As some of you know, I am a reluctant Joan Osborne fan.  She released a pretty brilliant debut album "Relish" and then self-indulgently followed it up with a career almost solely comprised of covering others' material.  It's irritating to me in this day and age.  The aftertaste first began when I saw her perform live in 2002 in a tiny club in Barcelona called La Boîte.  She was kind of a foreign oddity to the Spanish audience, but to me she was potentially a notable talent I was lucky to be witnessing in such an intimate setting.  She played a rote set with her trusty guitar player that was getting kind of boring, so I shouted out a request in between songs, "Right Hand Man!"  Visibly surprised to hear an American voice, she declined somewhat sheepishly, but then said she had to get going--she had a television interview to get to.  That really turned me off.  Fifteen euros for 45 half-assed minutes.    

She's good at covers, I have to give her that.  Her version of "I'll Be Around" makes me question any prescribed devotion to the original Bill Withers version.  Her cover of "Make You Feel My Love" was the first time I'd ever heard the Dylan tune.  Many folks heard Adele's later version of the song first, and it is no doubt sublime (it has in fact brought me to tears), but what do you think of Osborne's?  It certainly beats Dylan's in some ways, which some find unlistenable.  I for one truly like Dylan's expression of his own song, but I am of course partial to him and it's one of few highly noteworthy pieces he composed in the later part of his epic career.

Joan's (recorded 2000)

Adele's:   (recorded 2008--one of her more watchable videos.  It really captures who I believe her to be...)

Dylan's: (recorded 1997)

The song has been recorded by other notables: Kelly Clarkson, Billy Joel, Garth Brooks (really good actually! recorded 1998 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myk45P9Z2nc), Niel Diamond, Trisha Yearwood and countless others (who gives a fuck about a Oxford comma?)