Cowboy Junkies cover of Mr. State Trooper
Cowboy Junies cover of Thunder Road
Linda Ronstadt cover of Poor Poor Pitiful Me
I actually like Diana Krall’s cover of Desperado almost as much as I like Linda Ronstadt’s cover.
Linda Ronstadt’s cover of The Waiting (Is The Hardest Part)
Linda Ronstadt’s cover of Just like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Chris Smither’s cover of Desolation Row
Bonnie Rait’s cover of It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Gal Costa’s (may she rest in peace) cover of It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
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. . . @bgross
@immatthewj - Sundays covering "Wild Horses" was also mentioned on 2/8. Excellent 90's vibe - good call
I found where you listed that one on 2/4 . . . as I typed: I either missed it the first time or forgot about days later. I am like you in the respect that I like good covers and I have many CDs I bought simply for a cover that was on them. Not to mention the CDs I own that are complilations of covers. Not to mention the CDs (fewer) that are by artists that pretty much only do covers.
Rock on!
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Tori Amos cover of I'm On Fire
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Cowboy Junkies cover of Sweet Jane
Linda Ronstadt cover of Carmelita
Linda Ronstadt cover of Blue Bayou
Linda Ronstadt covers of way too much to list
Emmy Lou Harris cover of Guitar Town
Nora Jones cover of Long Way Home
Lucinda Williams cover of Ode To Billy Joe
Holly Cole Trio cover of Cry If You Want To
Emmy Lou Harris cover of Goodbye
Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson cover of Pancho And Lefty
The Highwaymen cover of The Devil's Right Hand
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. . . I also like Steve Earle's cover of Mr. State Trooper (although I like the Cowboy Junkies cover better).
Sinead O'connor's cover of All Apologies
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I forgot to say that I really like Lucinda Williams’ cover of The Games People Play.
At a concert back in ’99 at which Lucinda was opening for Tom Petty, she told us (the crwod) that she really like Tom Petty’s cover of (Lucinda’s) Changed The Locks.
I also really like Emmy Lou Harris’s cover of Lucinda’s Sweet Old World.
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Teagan and Sarah covering Dancing In The Dark is kind of cute.
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Replying to the Original Poster.
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Is this thread only for Whiter Shade Of Pale covers?
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Wild Horses covered by The Sundays.
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Lucinda Williams and David Crosby covering Return Of The Grievous Angel is another one of my favorites.
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@bgross , my eyesight is bad and getting worse every day, and I do not see it on 2/8. But no matter, if it is, it is, and a beautiful haunting rendition, such as that one, deserves being mentioned at least twice.
How about Joan Osborne's live cover of Son Of A Preacher Man?
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. . . which makes me think of Jathintha's cover of Fire And Rain.
And although I realize it is probably blasphemy, I like the covers that both Jacintha and Patricia Barber recorded of Light My Fire.
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. . . here’s another one I just thought of that used to blow me away:
from Dave Alvin And The Guilty Men’s Interstate City CD: the Jubilee Train/Do Re Mi/Promised Land medley absolutely rocks!
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There was a poster on the dimeadozen torrent site several years ago who was a huge Dylan fan and he put together a compilation series of various artists performing live versions of Dylan covers.
@ezwind , that made me think of Bob Dylan covering I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind on the Hank Williams Tribute CD.
I actually bought that CD for the Lucinda Williams cover of Cold Cold Heart.
Not related to either cover: but back in the early/mid '90s when I first started buying "better quality/better sounding" CDs, I bought The Raven by Rebecca Pidgeon with a delightful cover of Spanish Harlem.
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. . . and on that note, I will recognize Bob Dylan's cover of Mr. Bojangles.
Janis Joplin covering Me And Bobby McGee, maybe?
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A few more covers that Bob Dylan did that I remember I liked in my childhood were Lily Of The West, Spanish Is The Loving Tongue, and Big Yellow Taxi.
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. . . and now I remember buying a Tom Russell CD (Indians, Cowboys, Horses And Dogs) for his cover of Lily, Rosemary, And The Jack Of Hearts.
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I recall seeing Lauderdale with Lucinda Williams on her second ACL show that also featured a very young-looking Kenny Vaughan.
@stuartk , I am a Lucinda fan going back to sometime in between Sweet old World and Car Wheels and I do remember Mr. Lauderdale and Mr. Vaughan, but what iis the ACL show that you alluded to?
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It's the first ACL show from 1989 -- where her hair is blonde and she's playing with the original band. Gurf Morlix on guitar.
Thanks, @stuartk . I would have loved to seen her back then. As I typed previously, it wasn't until sometime after SOW I discovered her. Actually, it was because of her vocal work on Terry Allen's Human Remains (specifically it was the track Room To Room that I first heard off of that) that started my obsession. But back then I was too stupid to check the credits and see whose voice that was. So it wasn't until I bought Steve Earle/I Feel Alright that I made the connection. And then I bought every Lucinda CD I could find, which were far and few between back then.
So I didn't get her "White Album" until it was reissued and released the same time as Car Wheels.
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@stuartk , ah, I misunderstood you, I was thinking you had seen that performance live. She had a great voice back then (not that she still doesn't, but it has gone through the changes). After I finally figured out whose voice it was that I was liking so much on those Terry Allen and Steve Earle CDs I referenced, the first Lucinda CD I bought was Happy Woman Blues; I get the feeling that it did not get great critical acclaim, but I loved it then and still do today. Great writing and imo great vocal work. I was frontrow at center stage at The Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh for the Poetry Said/Poetry Sung she did with her father. That was the highlight of my life for a while.
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@stuartk , always good to talk to another Lu-natic! (I am not the originator of that term.) EmmyLou in ’76? Not far removed from the look and sound she had on her cameo at The Last Waltz, huh? I bet that was special. I got to see her with Spy Boy during The Wrecking Ball tour at a little 500 seat general admission joint--as always I was right up front and center .That was an older Emmy Lou.
Back in my Junior-Groupy days I had the good fortune to see Lu an even dozen times. The first time was like a religious experience for me--that same 500 seat general admission club (front & center again) that I saw Emmy Lou at--Jim Lauderdale was the opener and then played with Lucinda and the band. The next time was almost as much of a religious experience at a club right next door that held about 1200 standing, and, of course, I was standing front and center leaning against the stage. I was so close I could almost read the folder on the floor that she would flip through with one of her cowboy boots. Patty Griffin opened for her that time and I remember Kenny Vaughan was wearing a Flaming Red tee-shirt. Man oh man but those were the days and I used to feel good about life.
Oh well, ramble on. . . . Keep on rocking in the free world!
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"There are only two kind of men walking this earth, those who are in love with Emmylou and those who have yet to meet her"
"The first time I met Emmylou, she came into sing on Guy Clark’s first album. She gave me half of her cheeseburger. I wasn’t the same for weeks." Steve Earle from the liner notes on Train A Coming.
I love her cover of Steve Earle’s Goodbye from that CD and also her cover of Steve’s Guitar Town that she did on Live At The Ryman (1992).. I was watching youtubes once and found one with him bragging that Emmylou had covered TWO of his songs.
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@bdp24
I started seeing Lucinda live in small joints throughout L.A. around the time she was recording what became her s/t album on Rough Trade Records (I assume that’s the one stuartk referred to as her "white album")
yes, that is the one also known as her "white album." I didn't have the pleasure of hearing it until its re-iisue when the Car Wheels CD came out. I bought them both immediately when they were released to the CD stores--I was in heaven.
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Speaking of Joan Osborne: I have a live CD of hers that I bought strictly for her cover of Son Of A Preacher Man. I cannot remember if I already listed that on this thread, but if I did, it's so good it's worth listing twice.
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Covers of Springsteen's stuff that I like (I may have mentioned some of them, but they are so good they are worth mentioning twice) : Steve Earle did an interesting cover of Mr. State Trooper and The Cowboy Junkies did a neat cover of it as well. The Cowboy Junkies also did a kickas cover of Thunder Road. Tori Amos did a nice cover of I'm On Fire, and Tegan And sara did a cover of Dancing In The Dark that always makes me smile.
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