Cover Songs Featuring Highly Skilled Musicians

[grimes70]

 

[rodoheel]

NC's own Mipso covering Guy Clark's "Dublin Blues":




And a bonus, Mipso covering Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend":

 

[NCK9]

 

[Ddseddse]

Everybody and their brother has covered "Tell my Ma" - Van Morrison & The Dubliners, Sinead O'Conner, The Wiggles, The Chieftains, the Irish Tenors... but my favorite version is the Rankin Family (in keeping with the traditional music vein of this thread)

 

[rodoheel]

I'm not going to claim it's better than the original, but one of my favorite covers in the vein of "reimagining a song in a different musical style" is Disturbed's cover of "Sound of Silence," which I seem to recall got a stamp of approval from Paul Simon:

 

[hedge]

The Dead did dozens and dozens of covers, here's a twofer:

 

[Ddseddse]

Dylan Cover...

 

[farce©]

I like covers that cross genres.

That’s why I like that Glen Campbell album of country covers of rock songs.

 

[Centerpiece]

Dylan Cover...

Man o man! Dawg and Dead!

 

[doctor_octopus]

Love me some Jonathan..

Headed to see him at the Cradle this fall. I've probably seen him more than any other act - maybe fifteen times or so. Always great to get JoJo'd.

 

[05C40]

. . .. I saw Molly Tuttle (bluegrass) live and she did "Zero", originally by the yeah yeah yeahs, it isn't great via youtube but gave me goosebumps live. . . ..

I really liked Molly Tuttle's Bluegrass cover of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit."

 

[hedge]

Headed to see him at the Cradle this fall. I've probably seen him more than any other act - maybe fifteen times or so. Always great to get JoJo'd.

Thanks for the head's up, haven't seen Jonathan in years. I'll be there...

 

[StrangePackage]

Scary Pockets is a YouTube band that pretty much only does covers. Really great musicians.

I adore Scary Pockets

 

[StrangePackage]

Shocked that nobody has mentioned Charles Bradley yet.

 

[TarSpiel]

Oh man, Old & In the Way were so amazing

 

[HeelInTheOzarks]

these kids covering Tool will always be one of my favorite videos

The same music teacher had a group of kids do Cowboys From Hell and it’s badass too

 

[StrangePackage]

Here's one of my favorite covers that changes genres

 

[StrangePackage]

And a huge change from the original:



To potentially the sexiest cover in history:

 

[Centerpiece]

Oh man, Old & In the Way were so amazing

Dawg, Dead, Peter Rowan, Vassar Clements… seen them all several times.

I got pig, home in pen, and corn to feed him on. All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I’m gone.

 

[Centerpiece]

NC's own Mipso covering Guy Clark's "Dublin Blues":




And a bonus, Mipso covering Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend":

Sharp grew up 4 blocks from me. Family friends. Really proud. So sad about his mother…