Your Favorite Cover Songs?


One of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a rock band is to have some other well known act cover your songs.

Here are some of my favorite cover songs:
1. "Well...Alright" (Original by Buddy Holly covered by Blind Faith)
2. "LA Woman" (Original by The Doors covered by Billy Idol)
3. "Love Me 2 Times" (Original by The Doors covered by Aerosmith)
4. "Come On Everybody" (Original by Eddie Cochran covered by Led Zeppelin)
5. "Refugee" (Original by Tom Petty covered by Melissa Etheridge)
6. "The Battle Of Evermore" (Original by Led Zeppelin covered by Heart)
7. "Hard To Handle" (Original by Otis Redding covered by The Black Crowes)

What are some of your favorite covers?
danoroo

Showing 7 responses by 2channel8

So glad I found this thread! I've already googled many of your favorites to my delight.
"Killing The Blues" is one of my new favorites. Many covers; but I still like Plant & Krauss from Raising Sand.
Great to see some love for Joan Osborne. She is a great talent.
I'll throw out a few.
"Summertime" Big Brother & The Holding Company The Zombies also do a fresh cover.
Anything by Dusty Springfield - she pretty much owns anything she covered.
"Hey Joe" -so many good versions. Hendrix, of course, but Black Cat Bone may be the best.
"Morning Dew" - I have 15 versions. Long John Baldry is my #1, the version from his self titled EMI LP.
All of Linda Ronstadt's covers of Karla Bonoff and Gary White. Respectively my favorites are "Someone to Lay Down Beside Me" and "Long, Long Time".
The Siklie's version of the Beatles "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away"
"Down by the River" covered by the Indigo Girls.

More later. I can't help myself!

I got Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoff's Under the Covers Vol. 2 a few days ago. Pretty good. My favorite is "Go All The Way" (Eric Carmen/Raspberries), but Rundgren's "Hello It's Me" and Petty's "Here Comes My Girl" are also very good.

An even better covers album is "Cinnamon Girls" wherein various female artists cover 21 Neil Young hits.  Introduced me to Dala, who are beautiful!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEsIKiHOTxE
bdgregory,
" Thunder Road (Springsteen) by Cowboy Junkies

Darkness, Darkness (Youngbloods) by Cowboy Junkies"
Thanks for these! I consider myself a huge CJ fan; but that album totally eluded me. Their new one, All That Reckoning, is fantastic BTW.

I like to collect covers of my favorite songs.
A few are:
Morning Dew - Long John Baldry, The National
Hey Joe - Vasti Jackson, Black Cat Bone
Walk Away Rene - Southside Johnny & TAJ, Vonda Shepard
Summertime - Big Brother & THC (of course), would you believe Perry Como?
More later.
Excuse My brain fart. I forgot I posted 1/2 of the above in March. That's happening more and more these days.
He Called Me Baby, all due respect to Patsy Cline; but I think Candy Staton owns that one now, especially since One eskim0 paid her tribute in their Kandi:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_tBHoRaxns


@bdp24 , Have you heard Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes' version? Homage to the Four Tops with an injection of Jersey Juice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG6iNPyE4Ck

No. that is not Adam Sandler on lead guitar. ;^)