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I enjoyed this topic on the other board.  My submission:

Whitney Houston's version of "I will always love you" was better than Dolly Parton.  Although Whitney Houston was bested by Sexual Chocolate with "Children are our future".

 

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Nah, no flaming on that one. I still think the edge still goes to LZ, but even they, and everyone else, knew it was a pretty damn good version.

In the same spirit, I have always liked the Catherine Wheel cover of Wish You Were Here.

 

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Never know which way people’s musical leanings go, but Brandi Carlile has done some solid covers. Her cover of Take Me Home, Country Roads is worth a listen.

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16 hours ago, nivek3 said:

They are both legends, but Hendrix killed it on his cover of Dylan's song.

I see your Jimi Hendrix, and I raise you one SRV.

 

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6 hours ago, tokamak said:

I see your Jimi Hendrix, and I raise you one SRV.

 

Touche dude!

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I know this is not a cover, but everyone should watch this. This is a sound check in 1986 back when he was still using cocaine and drinking heavy. He looks lit in this video, but his playing is so accurate & pure it's like your listening to his album. Probably no other artist I miss more than SRV.

 

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6 minutes ago, nivek3 said:

Touche dude!

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I know this is not a cover, but everyone should watch this. This is a sound check in 1986 back when he was still using cocaine and drinking heavy. He looks lit in this video, but his playing is so accurate & pure it's like your listening to his album. Probably no other artist I miss more than SRV.

 

....like a boss. 

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1 hour ago, drifter379 said:

Anything Robert Earle Keen has written and someone else sings.

Joe Ely's Road Goes on Forever performance off of Live at Antones.

Go ahead and add Gallo Del Cielo on there too. 

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The whole Live at Monterrey set is filled with covers that are better than the original.  Couldn't find the Monterey version, but this one is pretty damned good.  Winterland version is fine as well. 

 

 

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While I'd never say it's better than Black Sabbath's Into The Void, Soundgarden's cover using quotes from Chief Sealth is just as good. And lyrically it seems like an original song.  Plus there's the whole juxtaposition of the outward looking Sabbath version and inward looking SG version.

 

 

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For me the default standard in this discussion is "Respect" as sung by Aretha, but it's not like Otis Redding's original is all that well known these days.  It was actually a hit for him, though.

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I don’t know who Eva Cassidy is but Judy Garland’s Somewhere Over The Rainbow is iconic and sublime and has stood the test of time since 1939.

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On 4/9/2018 at 9:21 AM, tokamak said:

I see your Jimi Hendrix, and I raise you one SRV.

 

While I think this conversation begins and ends with Hendrix's version of Watchtower, SRV's version of Voodoo Child is solid, but not as good as his version of Little Wing.

 

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