Favorite Tribute Albums?

The Music is You A Tribute to John Denver

I just recently listened to this.  Poor John got dissed a lot but made real music that plainly meant a great deal to listeners.  Lucinda Williams is named in about every posting on this thread.  She performs This Old Guitar beautifully!  Some of my favorite YMCA Camp Dudley campfire tunes are Johns creations.  Leaving on a jet plane puts tears in my eyes every time...

“That's the one win which Sinead O'Connor got heckled and booed? ”

Yes. It was right after she tore up the Pope’s picture on SNL. 

The Breeze - tribute to JJ Cale with Clapton (of course), Mark Knofler and orhers

Great list so far - wasn’t aware of many of these 

Hal Wilner, who tragically died of Covid the day after his 64th birthday, made a living producing tribute albums. This is a list culled from Wikipedia-

• Amarcord Nino Rota (1981) Willner’s first tribute album of the music Nino Rota did for Fellini movies. The Marsalis brothers, Debbie Harry, and others perform interpretations of Rota’s compositions.
• That’s The Way I Feel Now: A Tribute to Thelonious Monk (1984) features pop and jazz musicians including NRBQ, Steve Lacy, Dr. John, John Zorn, Donald Fagen, and Peter Frampton.
• Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill (1985) features musicians ranging from Sting to Charlie Haden.
• Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films (1988) features performances of songs from Walt Disney movies by a large cast of artists ranging from Sun Ra to NRBQ, Michael Stipe, Ringo Starr, Yma Sumac and Ken Nordine.
• Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus (1992) is a tribute to Charles Mingus. Performers include Bill Frisell, Vernon Reid, Henry Rollins, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Don Byron, Henry Threadgill, Gary Lucas, Bobby Previte, Robert Quine, Leonard Cohen, Diamanda Galás, Chuck D, Francis Thumm, and Elvis Costello.
• Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen (2003)-The CD includes performances by Rufus Wainwright, Debbie Harry, David Johansen, Eric Mingus and Sandra Bernhard.
• Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (2006) soundtrack for Lian Lunson’s documentary film about Willner’s Leonard Cohen tribute event. 
• Came So Far for BeautyAngelHeaded Hipster : The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex (2020) is a compilation album that pays tribute to Marc Bolan and his group T. Rex.  Performances by Kesha, Nick Cave, Joan Jett, Devendra Banhart, Lucinda Williams, Peaches, BORNS, Beth Orton, King Khan, Gaby Moreno, U2 and Elton John, John Cameron Mitchell, Emily Haines, Father John Misty, Perry Farrell, Elysian Fields, Gavin Friday, Nena, Marc Almond, Helga Davis, Todd Rundgren, Jesse Harris, Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Victoria Williams and Julian Lennon, David Johanson, and Maria McKee, with vocal contributions from Richard Barone, Jenni Muldaur, and Rolan Bolan.

Being a huge fan of JJ Cale the album The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale by Eric Clapton and friends including John Mayer, Mark Knopfler, Tom Petty and Willie Nelson. The album released in 2014 a year after he passed covers some amazing songs (see below) and is very much worth a listen. Well recorded too!