Best Covers

. . . @bgross 

@immatthewj  - Sundays covering "Wild Horses" was also mentioned on 2/8. Excellent 90's vibe - good call 

I found where you listed that one on 2/4 . . . as I typed:  I either missed it the first time or forgot about days later.  I am like you in the respect that I like good covers and I have many CDs I bought simply for a cover that was on them.  Not to mention the CDs I own that are complilations of covers.  Not to mention the CDs (fewer) that are by artists that pretty much only do covers.

Rock on!

. . . which makes me think of Jathintha's cover of Fire And Rain. 

And although I realize it is probably blasphemy, I like the covers that both Jacintha and Patricia Barber recorded of Light My Fire.

. . . here’s another one I just thought of that used to blow me away:

from Dave Alvin And The Guilty Men’s Interstate City CD: the Jubilee Train/Do Re Mi/Promised Land medley absolutely rocks!

@immatthewj

"I am like you in the respect that I like good covers...."

There was a poster on the dimeadozen torrent site several years ago who was a huge Dylan fan and he put together a compilation series of various artists performing live versions of Dylan covers. There were usually 15 to 20 different covers in each volume and as I recall he torrented somwhere around 40+ volumes! I think I still have at least a dozen of them on thumb drives lying around somewhere. I can't remember where I got them but I also downloaded a 9 volume set of songs that Dylan covered in live shows during the course of his career.

There was a poster on the dimeadozen torrent site several years ago who was a huge Dylan fan and he put together a compilation series of various artists performing live versions of Dylan covers.

@ezwind  , that made me think of Bob Dylan covering I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind on the Hank Williams Tribute CD.

I actually bought that CD for the Lucinda Williams cover of Cold Cold Heart.

Not related to either cover:  but back in the early/mid '90s when I first started buying "better quality/better sounding" CDs, I bought The Raven by Rebecca Pidgeon with a delightful cover of Spanish Harlem.