Songs covered by a different artist that went on to outshine the original, whether by popularity or sheer brilliance...
Feelin' Alright - Joe Cocker
All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Tonight I'll be Staying Here with You - Jeff Beck Group
The Letter - Joe Cocker
Star Spangled Banner - Jimi Hendrix
It Doesn't Matter Anymore - Danny Gatton
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Shaky Ground - Delbert McClinton
People Get Ready - Jeff Beck (+Rod Stewart)
Please add to the list!
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Gregg Allman - These Days (originally a Jackson Brown song)
Aretha Franklin - Respect (Ottis Redding)
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Hey Joe- Originally by The Leaves, popularized by Hendrix.
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A fairly recent one; Amy Winehouse's cover of Valerie has overtaken The Zutons original as the definitive version.
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Cool - new stuff to listen to.
Some of this stuff is foreign to me.
Thanks.
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Originally posted by whaaa
Dylan gets covered and it become classic.
Jimi was a huge Dylan fan.
He used to refer to (bassist) Noel Redding as Bob Dylan's grandmother as a joke.
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reply to post by whaaa
Bob Dylan was alleged to have commented on this: "There are only three chords and they still got one wrong."
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" I'm A Steady Rollin' Man " - by Robert Johnson
Covered by Eric Clapton in 461 ocean boulevard
" I'm a steady rollin' man, I roll both night and day
I'm a steady rollin' man, hmm hmm, I roll both night and day
But I haven't got no sweet woman, hmm mmm , boys, to be rollin' this-a way
I'm the man that rolls, when icicles is hangin' on the tree
I'm the man that rolls, when icicles is hangin' on the tree
And now you hear me howlin', baby, hmm hmm mmm, down on my bended knee
I'm a hard workin' man, have been for many years, I know
I'm a hard workin' man, have been for many long years, I know
And some cream puff's usin' my money, ooh well, babe, but that'll never be no more
You can't give your sweet woman, everything she wants in one time
ooh hoo ooo, you can't give your sweet woman, everything she wants in one time
Well, boys, she get ramblin' in her brain, hmm mmm mmm, some monkey man on her mind
I'm a steady rollin' man, I roll both night and day
I'm a steady rollin' man, and I roll both night and day
Well I don't have no sweet woman, hmm mmm, boys, to be rollin' this-a way "
Original:
" I'm A Steady Rollin' Man " (1937, Dallas)
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