Favorite Tribute Albums?


I'm a big fan of Tribute and Cover Albums. Some of my favorites include: Holly Cole's Temptation (Tom Waits covers); Poet - A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt; Till the Night Is Gone- A Tribute to Doc Pomus; Timeless - A Tribute To Hank Williams; Bob Marley A Tribute The Riddim Of A Legend and This One's for Him A Tribute to Guy Clark. I would enjoy hearing others recommendations.

 

davidchampa

Have you heard Aretha Franklin’s cover of Eleanor Rigby?  

Not until just a few minutes ago, @stuartk , and it is playing agin as I type.  I also played it as performed by the Beatles, and I honestly have to say that  I prefer the Aretha Franklin cover.  But with that typed, The Beatles do not do for me what they do for most others, so that probably doesn't mean much.

I did find a youtube of live Bruce in '95 doing knocking On Heaven's Door in Germany, and as interesting as it was, I much prefer Bob Dylan on that one.  But it could be due to it being performed live.

. . . and I would really like to hear the Lucinda Williams cover of Born In The USA. . . .

I remember when the Cowboy Junkies sarted performing a cover of Thunder Road (I think that would have been in '01) and I almost that I like the CJ cover better than the original.  Although the original is great.

If we're now including covers of individual songs, I really love Dylan's Senor, but Garcia's versions with the JGB knock it out of the park. Jerry was born to sing that song.