About the artist: Wolfgang Niedecken (1951) is a German singer, musician, and visual artist. He is the founder and lead singer of the rock group BAP. Since 1987 he has also released five solo albums. Niedecken sings his songs in Kölsch, the local dialect of Cologne. Wolfgang Niedecken currently has one song in my list of about 200 best pop/rock songs of all time.
About the song: Jeder's manchmohl einsam is a track from the 1996 album Leopardenfell: seventeen covers of Bob Dylan songs, translated into Kölsch. He achieves the impossible on this album: he makes you forget that these are Dylan songs (even though he takes some of the most famous ones like A hard rain's a gonna fall and Mighty Quinn) and makes them sound like his own work. Absolutely brilliant is his version of It's all over now, baby blue, which translated becomes Jeder's manchmol einsam. Sandwiched between some of the best sax playing this side of Baker Street, this sensitive ballad unfolds to great effect. Run time 5:51.
