"A Case of You", Diane Krall on Live from Paris album.
Best Covers
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I nominate J. Cash's cover of "The Mercy Seat" a cover of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds from the 1988 release Tender Prey. On the lighter side, Any cover that I've heard by Big Head Todd And The Monsters, or Lake Street Dive has been excellent (both BHTATM, and Lake Street Dive get mucho play at my house, most of the catalog is on CD)... my little garage punk band did Leonard Cohen's "Teachers" my favorite, since I got to croak it. |
Hauser And Girlfriend Benedetta Caretta Perform Awesome Cover Songs - The Music Man In addition, for those who like the Disturbed cover of Sounds of Silence, they did it live on Conan and a Google search will find it. Even better than the official version posted above. Also, for the wildest covers out there, anything by 2cellos. Lots of stuff to find on the net. Cheers, Crazy Bill
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Lots of great covers listed already. +1 Greg Allman, These Days, but Nico’s is my fave cover of the song. +1 for all the Johnny Cash covers. The American Recordings are sensational. Let me turn it around and point out a great cover of one of J Cash’s songs: NRBQ, Get Rhythm. Other favorites that come to mind: Beyonce, I’d Rather Go Blind (Etta James) Leon Russell, Youngblood (Coasters; Pomus, Leiber & Stoller) Beatles, Bad Boy (Larry Williams) Fairport Convention, Keep It with Mine (Bob Dylan) Sid Vicious, My Way (Frank Sinatra; Revaux, Thibault & Francois)
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club covering The Call's, "Let The Day Begin"... doing your own dad's tune is always cool. Annie Lennox covering Neil Young's, "Don't Let it Bring You Down", from American Beauty Humble Pie covering Ray Charles', "I Don't Need No Doctor" - serious jam! Nirvana covering Led Belly's, "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" & Bowie's Man Who Sold The World" off Unplugged Fiona Apple covering The Beatle's, "Accross The Universe" The Sundays covering The Stone's, "Wild Horses" Amy Winehouse covering The Zoltan's, Valerie - really so good I'm always looking for interesting covers... I have 100's in my collection |
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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^^^^^^^^ Technically speaking, no; but, that's based on a black & white and/or narrowed minded perspective. I agree that a good remix often feels like a complete reinvention of a song; and, many previous examples cited in this thread fall into that category ("Sweet Jane" - Cowboy Junkies). So, be a "rule breaker" and see what kind of reaction that you get. Who knows, it might extend the life of this thread, albeit in a slightly different direction. |
Moby covering Bowie "Heros" off Reprise Roaeane Cash covering The Beatles "I’m Only Sleeping" off Retrospective Heart covering Led Zepplin "Stairway to Heaven" Kennedy Center Honors Concert in 2012 - special performance Jeff Buckley covering Leonard Cohen "Hallelujah" off Grace is the best rendition I’ve heard... but that’s me
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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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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. |
Three come to mind, Smokestack Lightin' with The Yardbirds covering Howlin' Wolf. Burnett even said it was the best version of his song. Tje Allman Brothers Band covering Taj Majal's version of Statesboro Blues, which became their signature tune during Duane's leadership of the band. Tah dis not write the song, but listen to his version and you can see where they got theirs. Finally, Dolly Parton covering everybody, aometimes with the original artist on her new rock album.
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The entire Playing for Change series on YouTube. Amazing covers of many songs including The Weight, Gimme Shelter, Ripple, Doctor My Eyes, When the Levee Breaks, Soulshine, Higher Ground, Stir It Up, and others. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=playing+for+change |
@ezwind +1 to Playing for Change series--The Weight being the best of it Not sure if Gregg Allman's "Midnight Rider" from Laid Back counts as a cover but maybe since we're stretching the rules a little? Always like Linda Rondstadt's cover of Willin", esp the Live from Atlanta version |
Faces covering Paul McCartney "Maybe Amazed" off Long Player Stereophonics covering Chris Farlowe/ Rod Stewart, "Handbags & Gladrags" off Just Enough Education To Perform George Michael covering Elton John, "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" off Ladies and Gentleman, The Best Of Jack White's Raconteurs covering Terry Reid, "Rich Kid Blues" off Consolers Of The Lonley I can do this all day,... |
Stevie Wonder, “We Can Work it Out” |
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The hits keep coming: Can't Find My Way Home - Bonnie Raitt, Lowell George, Freebo In My Room - Danny Gatton (from 88 Elmira St.) A Song For You -Leon Russell Season of the Witch - Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper (Super Session) Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin' - Rickie Lee Jones (Flying Cowboys) Dancing in the Dark - Patti Smith Over the Rainbow - Stanley Jordan Somewhere (from West Side Story) - Tom Waits |
Santana Winwood Whiter Shade of Pale Replying to the Original Poster. Tasty guitar solo. Out of left field. Just shows how artificial are such categories as Country, Jazz, Easy Listening etc. which were only invented so minimum wage workers could know into which section they should stick albums. Y'know back when you actually had to go to a store to buy music.
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@andy8400 -- always loved that song, and was suprised to see it tagged as a cover. Listened to both versions, different lyrics, looked it up on Allmusic.com and Ann and Nancy Wilson and Sue Ennis are credited as the writers on BeBe le Strange.. Just saying, this audiofool has a sick need to correct misunderstandings. ;-) |