Judge a Song by its cover

I don't know that I would consider them better than the originals, but The Feelies have covers of "Me and My Monkey" and "Paint it Black" on the re-issue of 'Crazy Rhythms', which are great. Keeps what is good about the originals, but adds their style to them.

 

Apparently Mitch Rider’s Devil With The Blue Dress was a cover

 

Originally done by a Motown guy named Shorty Long.

 

“I Saw The Light” by The The

 

Ashley Cleveland's live rendition of the Stones' Gimme Shelter is pretty darn solid as well.

 

Lovely cover here, as good as any. Tasteful sax breaks and smooth jazz from the early 70's. I ran up on this by accident while looking for something else. Enjoy it.

 

I need to add The Who's cover of Eddy Cochran's "Summertime Blues", off of Who's Next.

Speaking of which, pull up and play some Cochran. Core Rockabilly. He was the first guy to stick a humbucker on a Gretsch hollow-body and play twang on it.

Summertime Blues, Twenty Flight Rock, She's Something Else, Cut Across Shorty, good stuff.

Here's another cover, Cochran doing Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally". Listen to how he took it from a piano driven song to the guitar. Catch the Buddy Holly strumming in the fills. More than that, listen to the arrangement and the vocal and tell me that the Beatles didn't steal their cover version largely from this one.

 

"Summertime Blues" is an awesome cover, The Who turned that thing inside out. It is on Live at Leeds and J0hn Entwistle's bass runs are awesome.

There are lots of great covers of "Somethin' Else", Tom Petty did a good one, Zeppelin took a sloppy, but faithful, run at it on their BBC Sessions album.

I was at this Stray Cats show in Toronto in 1983 that featured killer covers of "Something Else", Cochran's "C'mon Everybody" and Buddy Holly's "Oh Boy".

 

Yeah, all that is right in my wheelhouse. Good stuff.

 

This band burned.

 

Killer covers of “Johnny B. Goode” and “Good Mornin’ Little Schoolgirl” on that album. Rick Derringer was a great side kick. I had the album, 8 track, cassette, CD and download. Johnny Winter absolutely deserves to be in RR HOF. Also “Still Alive and Well” is a solid album, underrated, just like JW.