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what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original?

The first ones to come to mind are Whitney’s version of I Will Always Love You and Allen Stone’s Georgia On My Mind but I would love to hear other contributions as well! I feel like there are a lot of songs where a covered version gets more popular than the original and people end up not realizing that it is a cover (ex. i had a friend that genuinely believed the Jonas Brothers wrote Year 3000). so, what‘a a song that was written by one artist but (figuratively) owned by another?

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Travelin' Light by JJ Cale.

A very melodic, weaving tune by the Tulsa master.

Dig out the jet-fueled "live" version by Widespread Panic and it'll rip your head off. 

Mr. Cale sent the band a case of Jim Beam when he heard it, with a thank you note. The band thought they should be thanking him!

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Linda Ronstadt - Tumbling Dice...no one here should need to be told who wrote that originally.

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"Spanish Moon" (Little Feat) by Gov't Mule...Warren Haynes puts some ass into this classic song meant to be driven hard live....and the Mule delivers. And yes, this is a very bold statement considering the world knows the song from the epic live double-album "Waiting for Columbus", one of the best live albums ever released.   

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