Songs you forgot for the cover tournament

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lukethedrifter wrote:
Kincaid wrote:One of my favourite Zeppelin songs is a cover of a Joan Baez recording of all things:


Swirls wrote:
Kincaid wrote:I assume (hope?) someone took Hendrix's cover of "All Along the Watchtower" and Jeff Buckley's (or John Cale's) cover of "Hallelujah" since those are among the best-known great covers out there.
Both are in, yes. They'll be up in the last set of Round 1 matchups, which will get posted on Sunday.

The full list of songs is shown here: http://www.challonge.com/grb_cover_tourney
Thanks for the list.

Nearly every Led Zep recording should count as a cover.
Willie Dixon cover from the same album

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TGantz wrote:Can't post videos on my phone, but I don't remember seeing Johnny cash covering Hurt.
He does a pretty good cover of Personal Jesus on that album also.

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A couple nice live acoustic covers by very different artists from the originals:




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Goddam this is sad.

Turn it up


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Lots of good stuff not in the tourney...There are so many traditional and blues songs that could be put into play.

I still prefer Skip James but this is solid.



I'd die happy if this was the last song I heard.


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Radbird wrote:
TUNE!

In the same vein, but not as good:



Oh crap, I keep remembering really good ones.


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Tambourine Man wrote:Lots of good stuff not in the tourney...There are so many traditional and blues songs that could be put into play.

I still prefer Skip James but this is solid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laWj4OOGo7c
The whole O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack could qualify. The cover of "Man of Constant Sorrow" in that movie is amazing.

This is one of my favourite old-timey covers:


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