DrDrewMom's covers/remakes that are better than the original

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<p>Covers I like:</p>

<p>“First Cut is The Deepest” Sheryl Crow
“Landslide” Indigo Girls
“American Woman” Lenny Kravitz</p>

<p>I also love most all the covers of the old classic standard tunes by Steve Tyrell.</p>

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<p>Like Crow’s version of “First Cut” a lot.</p>

<p>Love the Indigo Girls, but wasn’t it the extremely annoying but very talented Dixie Chicks who did a great cover of “Landslide”? Using a banjo to play the guitar solo was brilliant. That’s one that stops me in the grocery store when I hear it.</p>

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<p>Yes, you are right, I meant Dixie Chicks!!</p>

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<p>Diana Krall:</p>

<p>A samba version of ‘Let’s Face the Music and Dance’.</p>

<p>Sure to get my wife and me in the mood for serene romance in all it’s transcendent forms (then, that would apply to most of Diana Krall’s recordings!)</p>

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<p>Maybe a few more…</p>

<p>Talking Heads: Take me to the River [Al Green]
Johnny Cash: Personal Jesus [Depeche Mode]
Robyn Hitchcock: Desolation Row [Dylan]
Mindy Smith: Jolene [Dolly Parton]
Jimmie Dale Gilmore: Mack the Knife [Kurt Weil] –incredibly haunting version
The Clash: I fought the Law [Bobby Fuller]
Joe Henderson: Isfahan [Ellington] –are Jazz covers “covers”?
Rosanne Cash: I’m only Sleeping [Beatles]
Steve Earle: Willin’ [Little Feat]
Johnny Cash: ONE [U2]
Ryan Adams: Wonderwall [Oasis]</p>

<p>Anti-cover tune: Pancho & Lefty
Townes Van Zandts original was superior to the fantastic cover by Willie Nelson</p>

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<p>Woodwork,</p>

<p>Great choices. I have a version of Bono’s “One” on Warren Haynes (Gov’t Mule) solo acoustic CD Live at Bonnaro which I cannot stop listening to. </p>

<p>I think I’d dispute the Steve Earl & Ryan Adams, but I can understand your preference.</p>

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<p>I like Linda Ronstadt’s version of Willin… In fact her albums are filled with great covers of many many songwriters.</p>

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<p>Ronstadt’s “Willin’” caused me to seek out the Little Feat original (which IMO was better). Same deal with her Warren Zevon covers. That’s what made her so cool at the time.</p>

<p>Made me think of another of my favorites: Bonnie Raitt doing Jackson Browne’s “My Opening Farewell”-almsot brings me to tears every time I listen to it.</p>

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<p>The Byrd’s cover of “Mr. Tambourine Man” is some times better than Dylan’s and sometimes worse, depending on my mood.</p>

<p>Derrick and the Dominoes cover of “Little Wing” is definitely better than Jimi Hendrix’s original.</p>

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Oh my God, where are my smelling salts? Apostasy!</p>

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<p>Sting does little wing also- and I like Sting but in no way is it better than Hendrix</p>

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<p>Stevie Ray Vaughn’s version might just eclipse Hendrix</p>

<p>Eva Cassidy’s cover of “Fields of Gold” is better than Sting’s original</p>

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<p>Jimi died while the Layla sessions were going on, and they did “Little Wing” as a tribute to him.</p>

<p>Any of you old music lovers who haven’t seen the documentary “Tom Dowd and the Language of Music” should make it a point. It was on the Sundance Channel, but is available on DVD. A physics student at Columbia during WWII, he was drafted right after his sophomore year and put to work on the Manhattan Project. When the army was done with him, he found himself unable to continue in physics because it was all classified now, so he turned to his other love, music, and pretty much invented modern multi-track tape recording. He produced and recorded some of the biggest names out there, was responsible for introducing Eric Clapton to Duane Allman, produced the Layla sessions, etc. There’s even an actor playing the role of Tom Dowd in the movie “Ray” because he had produced Ray Charles as well. He was an amazing innovator, a complete genius with a real gift for music. Fascinating stuff.</p>

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<p>Audiophile, is Eva Cassidy that young woman whose recordings were released after her death from cancer?</p>

<p>I heard a haunting “Fields of Gold” by this woman; could it be Eva Cassidy?</p>

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<p>SBMom,</p>

<p>Yes, that’s her. Pick up the “Songbird” CD for an excellent overview of her work including Fields of Gold and an amazing version of Over The Rainbow. I guarantee you will not be disappointed.</p>

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<p>Thanks, audiophile, I loved the heartache in her voice.</p>

<p>One more nomination:</p>

<p>I have to say Joni Mitchell’s own slower cover of “Both Sides Now” (featured in “Love Actually”) is IMHO superior to her original version.</p>

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<p>Many more, after looking through our music collection a bit:</p>

<p>Springsteen—Jersey Girl [Tom Waits]
Clarence Ashley & Doc Watson—Rising Sun Blues [‘House of the Rising Sun’]
Los Lobos—Marie Marie [Blasters]
Cassandra Wilson—Shelter from the Storm [Dylan]
Ani DiFranco—The Poet Game [Greg Brown] …absolutely gorgeous
Natacha Atlas—It’s a man’s World [James Brown]
Richard Thompson—Season of the Witch [Donovan]
Marshall Crenshaw—Crying Waiting Hoping [Buddy Holly]
John Hammond—Big Black Maria [Tom Waits]
Kurt Elling—Time of the Season
Alejandro Escovedo—Pale Blue Eyes [Velvet Underground]
Lyle Lovette—You’ve got a Friend in me [Randy Newman]
Sonny Rollins—The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Rufus Wainwright—Across the Universe [Beatles]</p>

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<p>I enjoyed almost every cover from the movie “I Am Sam.”
Some great Beatles songs which I liked: Help, Let it Be, You’ve got to Hide your Love Away, and many more I can’t remember.
Great movie with great music :)</p>

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<p>I love those remakes too. It’s really fun see what young bands did with them.</p>

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<p>I hadn’t realized that Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen had co-written Because the Night. Thanks for the info.</p>

<p>As for Bruce Springsteen never having done “Fire”–I think I’ve heard Bruce do it on the radio. Maybe it was a live version. . .</p>