Modern Covers of Classics

Over the top, as is usual.  

Jimi Hendricks All along the Watchtower.  JK

The String Cheese Incident, This Must be the Place(Naive Melody

Heart,  Stairway to Heaven

Jerry Garcia, Lay Down Sally

Can’t believe no one has mentioned Scary Pockets & Pomplamoose, the LA-based cover bands that continually churn out terrific covers. Examples:

Pomplamoose/Moby’s "Extreme Ways" (with Moby on keyboards). This was on the soundtrack of THE BOURNE IDENTITY:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0OWyoXNjcw&list=RDs0OWyoXNjcw&start_radio=1

Scary Pockets/Judith Hill’s great cover of Aerosmith’s "Walk This Way" (with Oz Noy on guitar):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFddsP_-mqU

And then there’s Morgan James, the one-woman cover factory. Here’s her cover of the Beatles’ "Back in the USSR" (a tune not often covered):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJsUV2Nfv5E

And her superior cover of Clapton’s "Lay Down Sally":

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

There are so many more out there. I listen to a lot of covers.

"Groovin' Is Easy" by The Third Mind on their second album, The Third Mind/2.

Totally acid-rock music genre, done in a current day recording sound quality.  The album was released in 2023.  I first heard that song by The Electric Flag, in 1968.  As a very young teenager it really stuck with me, played that album a million times.  Still loving it, but sounding very "new" on this cover, and certainly with much better SQ.

Check out these covers by young guitarist, Kent Nishimura:

Steely Dan's Hey Nineteen:

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=youtube+kent+nishimura&&mid=E26EFADAF1110E3E1B8EE26EFADAF1110E3E1B8E&&FORM=VRDGAR

Chicago's Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?:

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=youtube%20kent%20nishimura&mid=4118DD6F8540CB0738064118DD6F8540CB073806&ajaxhist=0