Cover Songs Featuring Highly Skilled Musicians

[heelinhell]

Adam Lambert covering a Johnny Cash song on American Idol was pretty cool

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If not, how about Adam singing this as lead singer for Queen...

 

[Ddseddse]

Many have sung this. It's a beautiful song. And although not the first to record it, Mathis pretty much owns it.

Thx to @nashcounty for an unintentional prodding of my brain.

Not a cover. Not sorry!..

 

[finesse]

 

[ZenMode]

 

[Ddseddse]

I love this cover because it's so subversive.

It starts out as a mocking parody of Donovan's original (at least that's what I hear) and that nasty little mean part inside you is like "yeah, OK, let's do this, I'm totally open to making fun of Donovan", and so you start to listen ironically, and slowly, imperceptibly, it flips the script on you and by the end you've been tricked into un-ironically jamming out to what turns out the be a very good Hurdy Gurdy Man cover that perfectly encapsulates what made the original so great.

 

[finesse]