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

Perhaps already listed, (it's a long thread), "Proud Mary" By Ike and Tina Turner.

ozzy

“Love is all around”

Original: The Troggs

Covered by: Wet, Wet, Wet

 

 

The Punch Brothers - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Jimmy Lafave -  Walk Away Renee.

 Shawn Colvin, "Guitar Town", on the Cover Girl album

A great album anyway, but her rendering of this song is wonderful. A despairing cry to escape small town boring existence

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"No Tears Left to Cry" - Miley Cyrus and Mark Ronson

and

"Call Out My Name" - Macy Kate and Sarah Baska

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@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. ;^)

The Four Tops: "Just Walk Away Renee" (original by The Left Banke). Unusual for me to like equally two completely different interpretations of a song (in this case a great one), but, hey, it’s The Four Tops!

The Band: "Long Black Veil" (original by Lefty Frizzell). What other Rock ’n’ Roll band could possibly do this song?!

The Band: "I Shall Be Released" (original sung by Bob Dylan and played by The Hawks in The Basement Tapes). The Band’s version benefits greatly from pianist Richard Manuel’s falsetto vocal, which Eric Clapton has described as heartbreaking. It truly is.

The Yardbirds: "Train Kept A-Rollin’’’ (original by Tiny Bradshaw in 1951, but The Yardbirds copped it from 50’s Rockabillies The Rock ’n’ Roll Trio, whom Jeff Beck idolized).

Lucinda Williams: This Sweet Old World (Lucinda’s 2017 re-recording of her 1992 Sweet Old World album). Muchas betta, imo.

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


The Who-Summertime Blues
Elvis Costello-What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding.
Ike and Tina Turner-Proud Mary
The Kingsmen-Louie Louie
Byrds-Turn Turn Turn
Springsteen-Jersey Girl
Aretha-RESPECT
English Beat-Tears of a clown
Patti Smith-Because the night

Grateful Dead-Turn on your love light, Morning Dew, Not fade away, Hard to handle, I know you rider, Iko Iko, Me and my uncle, Samson and Delilah, and The promised land.
Charles Lloyd and the Marvels cover of Hendrix's Little Wing (featuring Lucinda Williams and Bill Frissel). Heard it last night. Stunningly good!
Excuse My brain fart. I forgot I posted 1/2 of the above in March. That's happening more and more these days.
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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?
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+2 Shelby Lynne Just a Little Lovin
Also, the album Encomium, covers of Led Zep by various (all well-known) artists. One of my favorite albums.
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
"I Found A Reason" - Cat Power.  Just Chan Marshall's voice and piano.  Breathtaking & haunting.  A must hear, and usually my reference when showing friends my system.

Originally by The Velvet Underground. 
Shinedown "simpleman" covering Skynyrd
Disturbed "sound of silence" covering Simon and Garfunkel

If you enjoy Bossa/Samba music and darker 80s new wave, you cannot go wrong with the French band Nouvelle Vague. Sexy and beautiful.

Jimi Hendrix's "Angel" is truly honored by Alison Brown.

And of course, "Satisfaction" is equaled by Devo.
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!

Luce DuFault - Damn Your Eyes (Etta James cover)

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



Chris Smither   Killin the Blues    by Rowland Salley

and to echo bdp24.........Mink DeVille   Cadillac Walk  by Moon Martin,
which I didn't know was a cover until I saw bdp24's post
Probably sacrilege, but I like the way Disturbed does The Sound of Solence. I also like Tony Cowan’s cover of Fly Like an Eagle.
@dragunski

Yes!  Vanilla Fudge never did a song I didn't like.  Atco had some strong acts on their label in those days.
"Day Tripper"  &  "Mother & Child Reunion"

both by Randy California (Kapt.Kopter and the Fabulous Twirly Birds)

Did Jimi or Randy come first?
Immigrant Song- Soak
Oh You Pretty Things- Au Revior Simone
Here She Comes Now- Nirvana
Baker Street- Foo Fighters
Trouble- Eddie Vedder
After the Goldrush- Flaming Lips