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The List
In 1973, Johnny Cash decided to educate his teenage daughter, giving her a list of what he considered 100 "essential" country songs.
Here is an article about it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michae...311189.html&cp She recently released an album that is covers of selected songs from that list, entitling it, appropriately, "The List". There are some terrific covers that anyone who appreciates the roots of country music (and American music in general) should enjoy. Here's a link to the site: http://rosannecash.com/indexee.php |
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Jackson Browne's acoustic cover of The Eagles, Take It Easy - which technically isn't a cover as he co-wrote the song, but as it's tuned down it has a totally different feel. Stunning.
Also, Steve Earles' version of The Pogues, If I Should Fall From Grace. Awesome. And finally Van Morrison's version of Comfortably Numb. Brilliant. Rc |
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Elton John's two covers (maybe there were more, but I'm not aware) were more pleasing than the originals to me.
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds Pinball Wizard I also enjoy Tony Rice's versions of two Lightfoot tunes better than the originals... Shadows Let it Ride It's a shame Tony isn't able to sing anymore.
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Jeff Buckley's done a few covers that I love
Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" Dylan's "Mama, You've Been On My Mind" "Lilac Wine" is another cover of he's done, although I've never heard any other version. Mazzy Star did a cover of the Green on Red song "Hair and Skin" that I love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Rl0re5Mu4 Iron and Wine doing "Such Great Heights" from The Postal Service, it's beautiful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKGHkBComjM The Flaming Lips doing Madonna. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_z38PaikMs
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All of the songs he mentioned are Dylan originals, with the artist who covered it listed after the song title.
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Bruce Cockburn's cover of "Blueberry Hill," made popular by Fats Domino, whose recording was a cover of the original song, which predates WW2.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzhp1Nd92kA&feature=fvw She's not an "established" artist, but IMO does a great cover of Iron & Wine.
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Any tune Eva Cassidy did.
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dylan cover tunes
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Water Boys covering Dylan on Girl from the North Country Buddy & Julie Miller covering Dylan on Wallflower Cowboy Junkies covering Dylan on If You Gotta Go, Go Now Dr. Feelgood covering Dylan on Highway 61 Revisited Johnny Marr covering Dylan on Don't Think Twice, It's all Right Mary Lou Lord covering Dylan on You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome Yo La Tengo covering Dylan on I Threw It all Away Cassandra Wilson covering Dylan on Shelter From The Storm Hamell on Trial covering Dylan on It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Paul Weller covering Dylan on I Shall Be Released These are my favorites from Uncut Magazines Hard Rain Tribute to Bob Dylan. I never use to care about anything but the original Dylan and yet, for some reason, I bought this magazine off of the rack just for the CD and, almost every track was awesome. Some of these songs are covered in the traditional manner. Others covers change the songs up quite a bit. The greatest Dylan cover of all time though, would have to be: Jimi Hendrix covering Dylan on All Along the Watchtower. Trivia Question: Who cut the studio bass tracks for All Along the Watchtower when Dylan did the original recording back in 1962? Answer: Jimi Hendrix
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...you know something?, I always liked his version of Tennessee Stud better than Doc Watson's. I heard it on a train when I was kid. It's what kinda made me want to play guitar instead of the trumpet.
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I just thought of one more thing ...
Step Inside This House by Lyle Lovett is nothing but cover tunes. It took awhile, but I eventually grew to like them all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step_Inside_This_House ...aside from punk rock covers, that's it for me. ...that's all I got folks.
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