Nothing but covers.

[JohnnyD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFRQOztuh04



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiiyq2xrSI0




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3wxRuwyX5E

[JohnnyD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mxaA-bJ35s





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezPZxfS1jys




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVjdMLAMbM0

[JohnnyD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5cwmZxW0Jc





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xu71i89xvs




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbZ3VdYb90o

[JohnnyD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cS5aCozhcA



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv9r-kQMuAk



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fymacb7GYDg

[JohnnyD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFDIZ-oVcUA


That from the movie Black Snake Moan which is the title of a blues classic by Texan Blind Lemon Jefferson in 1926. Jackson does play the tune but he goes off into something a little different that the original.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inlac4FyhD8




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4

[Mitch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYKOeJaRCH8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrS6DO2H650

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNtHH2MVlF8

[Mitch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkTLLa9atB8

[JohnnyD]

Mitch my browser couldn't pick up a couple of those.....DAMN!

But the....Ain't No Mountain.....Danger Zone.....bravo! You got it.

[JohnnyD]

Both Eric Clapton and Peter Green have put out CD;s where they pay homage to the great Robert Johnson.

Taj Mahal, John Hammond, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Winter, Keb Mo, Muddy Waters, Lucinda Williams, Robert Palmer, and on and on and on and.... have covered the songs of Robert Johnson.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x-1Y9KNs9w

JoAnn Kelly the queen of British blues also does a great cover of Come Into My Kitchen. As does Johnny Winter.


Cream



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRR1WTc-N8Q


Alvin Youngblood Hart



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsP3bKb8kGI

Check out those fingers. Sad thing is he didn't live long enought to pick up an electric guitar, we can only imagine.

[JohnnyD]

Cover of the Blind Faith classic.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4tJiyU_gjY

[Mitch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_T-YCoMc68

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXO4b8Xk_sY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXO4b8Xk_sY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC3IxxYsIN8

[JohnnyD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ZG2sgdhKs

[Mitch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2MHj1iDIU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2MHj1iDIU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NOTOj_8E7U


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp_cnNwk8I8

[spurraider21]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCPj4JPbKtA

[benefactor]

Who would have thunk this?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XiYUYcpsT4


That's the original, Clapton's is the cover


:lmao


:lol music guru


:lmao "Music expert"
:lmao His music expertise is similar to his NFL betting expertise


He'll make an excuse why he did that.

[JohnnyD]

Work with me here.

Bob Marley is into Reggae...ok? You just don't expect him to go off of that with a tune like "I Shot The Sheriff". It's not his norm, so...Who would have thunk it?

I own most of both guys stuff, have read up on both, have stuff back from when both were starting out. There is no way I'm not aware of the history behind Who Shot the Sheriff.

It isn't real obvious I'm deeply into music? My music library is immense, everything is there. Ever heard of Stickhorse Hammond, The Ivory King, Blackboy Shines, Sloppy Henry? Big Band, jazz, blues, hillbillie, gospel, funk, soul, etc etc etc etc....it's al there. How in the hell is anyone that deep into music not going to know about Bob Marley and Eric Clapton? Hell, I have stuff by Marley as a kid in a group with Peter Tosh.

Always funny how people act, they try so hard to find something wrong. Why not just relax and pick up a few things you weren't aware of, I do.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyr8GjJWBIc


I once listed every NFL teams 1000 yard rushers, what school they went to, a huge undertaking. Guy comes on....you spelled....


This silliness is fun but what do you gain, yep ,nothing.

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=274427&page=22&p=9593771#post9593771

[JohnnyD]

Only exception to nothing but covers.

The young Bob Marley.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlXEMbgLaZA

[Fabbs]

https://youtu.be/IJFIeb41DLI

[JohnnyD]

See I learned some new covers to me today, thank you Mitch, spurraider and Fabbs.

benefactor why don't you relax and be cool, ok guy?

[mrgrtt123]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45cYwDMibGo

One of my favorite The Beatles song.

[SpursforSix]

One of my favorite The Beatles song.

Check out the Beatles version of Motley Crue’s, Helter Skelter

[Chris]

Yw78RDoQRNQ

[TDMVPDPOY]

waiting for that bbc lover to come in and destroy this thread

we all know who it is...

[JohnnyD]

waiting for that bbc lover to come in and destroy this thread we all know who it is... That would be impossible. It's just lightweight for us music lovers, all of us enjoying the music.

[FrostKing]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUDRU9-HRk

[FrostKing]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IyfvWi56hs

[DMC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45cYwDMibGo

One of my favorite The Beatles song.

They covered the Michael Jackson song?

[Mitch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCLTGaQZhM8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaRAjnJsq20


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM_xvTaYavw

[spurraider21]

this was our first dance at our wedding


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-B8k0n_3cs

[Spurminator]

I still think that Disturbed cover of "Sounds of Silence" is absolute garbage but apparently I'm in the minority.

[JohnnyD]

I'm not a Disturbed fan at all, but....do like their cover. There is an earlier version of Sound of Silence pre the one we all l know.

[Mitch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx_DDFLUGJ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7wErmth4k4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_UwEap5TDA

[Mitch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR0cpYtkBWI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTCID7fQSQc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhiMFfnq-ks

[JohnnyD]

Mitch on a roll, love it.

[Mitch]

Really nailed this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oitHmLWEpI

[JohnnyZ]

In a word...wow!


This was a hillbilly stealing a tune off a race record by Luke Jordan.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZMQLDl6bIU


Blind Willie Reynolds (Joe?) was a Louisiana bluesman from way back when. He recorded a few records, this his masterpiece from 1930.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFBYafjOyUY


Keb Mo covering the very first song the great Robert Johnson recorded.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZgOKm5SfSs

[Spurs Homer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8Q2PATVyI

[Spurs Homer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpOj_xnON8c

[Mitch]

Good stuff Avante, love that Kind Hearted Woman, perfect blues voice.
You probably recognize this version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyKAGtAjodc

[JohnnyZ]

Good stuff Avante, love that Kind Hearted Woman, perfect blues voice.
You probably recognize this version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyKAGtAjodc

If I told you I was mixing that in with some John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson just last night ya wouldn't believe me.

In 1941 Alan Lomax who worked for The Library of Congress was in Mississippi looking for Robert Johnson. He didn't know Robert had been dead since 1937. Checking around he found that out and was also told about a guy who played liKe Robert who lived over on The Stovall Plantation, yep....Mackinley "Muddy Waters" Morganfield. After convincing Muddy he wasn't the law (illegal moonshine) he recorded Waters right there on his front porch. A must have recording.

[Mitch]

If I told you I was mixing that in with some John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson just last night ya wouldn't believe me.

In 1941 Alan Lomax who worked for The Library of Congress was in Mississippi looking for Robert Johnson. He didn't know Robert had been dead since 1937. Checking around he found that out and was also told about a guy who played liKe Robert who lived over on The Stovall Plantation, yep....Mackinley "Muddy Waters" Morganfield. After convincing Muddy he wasn't the law (illegal moonshine) he recorded Waters right there on his front porch. A must have recording.

Some pretty neat info there, I bet a lot of these old pre-war songs have some great stories to them

[JohnnyZ]

Some pretty neat info there, I bet a lot of these old pre-war songs have some great stories to them

While not a cover.....

Some guy calling himself Freezone recorded one song. yep, just one song and nobody knows who he was or how this recording ever happened. A blues mystery.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iihWlj_i2c

[Mitch]

While not a cover.....

Some guy calling himself Freezone recorded one song. yep, just one song and nobody knows who he was or how this recording ever happened. A blues mystery.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iihWlj_i2c

You ever wonder what kind of music was around at the time people didn't record? In the backwoods areas without much electricity let alone recording devices. There is probably plenty of talent that never got to be heard outside of a small town.

Here's got to be one of the most famous blues covers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Gt46aX9Z4

[JohnnyZ]

You ever wonder what kind of music was around at the time people didn't record? In the backwoods areas without much electricity let alone recording devices. There is probably plenty of talent that never got to be heard outside of a small town.

Here's got to be one of the most famous blues covers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Gt46aX9Z4

Elmore James was Brian Jones big influense, he idolized James. The Stones wanted to play them blues but to make $$$$$$$$$$....

Charley Patton was known as "The King of the Delta Blues", but....the guy who was his mentor was the unrecorded Henry Sloan.

There are so many blues cats who only recorded one record.

Rude Lacy
Henry Spaulding
Mattie Delaney
Bobby Grant
Bo Jones
Lane Hardin
Jim Thompkins.....one song
John D.Fox
Elvie Thomas

There are others.

All of them just as gifted as those who had enought material for a CD.

The real deal with them old blues is when these people sing about hard times, it was hard times. A line like....don't let the sun go down on me.....that was a real fear.

The oldest "recorded"*** blues was Mamie Smiths "Crazy Blues" from 1920, but this is jazzy with a band. The first country blues was Papa Charley Jackson in 1924, a lone singer with a banjo. Sylvester Weaver from Kentucky recorded a guitar solo in 1923.

There is no doubt history missed out on a ton of talent simply because they were never recorded.

*** can be debated.


Here is Texan Bo Jones who only recorded one record. Of all the blues I own it gets no more raw, way back in the alley, bottom of the barrell than this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLDOGPzFibU

Ya picture an old black guy hunched over a beat up acoustic, a jug of whiskey on a table, his old bulldog at his feet, moanin' his blues somewhere in west Texas.

[JohnnyV]

Ya know, the true masters of the art of the cover song haven’t even been mentioned in this thread, sheesh~~~~~~~


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N10yzt6xnCU

Nothing excites me more than preteens in chorus.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVsqDdqZb2g

The gals here display a raw sexuality that gets me rock hard for the music, it’s crazy I tell ya!~~~~


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KugI5Yr9AgA

Taking the music of the blacks and putting it back in the hands of sexy white kids, just the way I like it! sheesh~

[leemajors]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpOj_xnON8c


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqDGTT2OtsQ

[Spurs Homer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqDGTT2OtsQ

Cool version - had not heard that one!

[JohnnyZ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ughAVo2ZAag

[Mitch]

Never knew this existed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xvriksg-Q0

[SpursforSix]

Nailed it!

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