Willie Nelson Stardust Freddie Mercury The Great Pretender The Hollies Boulder to Birmingham Simon and Garfunkel El Condor Pasa Nina Simone Strange Fruit Bryan Ferry Song to the Siren, Let's Stick Together, Hard Rain
Jennifer Warnes version of Famous Blue Raincoat The Handsome Family's version of Sunday Morning Coming Down
Joe Cocker: With a Little Help Springsteen: Trapped Tim Buckley: Dolphins Richard Buckner: Still Looking for You Ronnie Lane: Roll On Babe Townes Van Zandt: Dead Flowers The Black Crowes: Feelin' Alright; L.A.; Driving Wheel (really too many here to list) Gillian Welch: Black Star Les McCann: What's Going On Leon Russell: It's a Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Robert Plant: Song to the Siren
Afghan Whigs- Band of Gold Afghan Whigs- Mr. Superlove The Wedding Present- It's Not Unusual Twilight Singers- What Makes You Think You're The One White Stripes- Jolene
Tom Rush's covers of Urge For Going, Tin Angel and The Circle Game by Joni Mitchell; Something in the Way She Moves and Sunshine, Sunshine by James Taylor; and Shadow Dream Song by Jackson Browne, all on the 1968 album The Circle Game.
Mostly '60s covers of '50s hits like Silhouettes by Herman's Hermits or Book of Love by the Raindrops, but also a few later tracks like The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Alison Moyet and Whiter Shade of Pale by Sarah Brightman.
Margo Thunder - Expressway to Your Heart. The dissonant horns sound like a raucous traffic jam and the beat is even more propulsive than the original.
I always loved when punk bands covered classic rock songs! 10 Punk Rock Cover Songs – Green and Black Music
The Pretenders - "Whatcha Gonna Do About It" Robert Plant - " If I Were A Carpenter" Love Spit Love - "How Soon Is Now" REM - "Superman" The Clique - "Sugar On Sunday" The Carpenters - "Superstar" David Bowie - "Sorrow" Nirvana - "The Man Who Sold The World" Cheap Trick - "California Man" The Who - "SummerTime Blues" Blue Cheer - "Summertime Blues
Never a big fan of Barenaked Ladies... but their cover of Bruce Cockburn's 'Lovers In A Dangerous Time' is sublime.
Always liked the way some songs are covered so much that some, not all, take on "standard" status, sometimes across genres. "All Along The Watchtower" "Feeling Alright" "Try A Little Tenderness" "Georgia On My Mind" "Got To Get You Into My Life" "Get Ready" "With A Little Help From My Friends" "Crazy Little Thing called Love" "Turn On Your Love Light" "You've Got A Friend" "After Midnight" "Something" "Call Me The Breeze" "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" "Delta Lady" "Black Magic Woman" "Rainy Night In Georgia" "Me and Bobby McGee" "Come On In My Kitchen" "Proud Mary" Other examples?
