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A musical journey. So as a kid, my family listened almost completely to bluegrass music over anything else. Our favorites were Jimmy Martin and Ralph Stanley, who my uncle and I saw many times. They both recorded versions of "In the Pines," a very old folk song of uncertain origin but popularized by versions recorded by Leadbelly and Bill Monroe. Jimmy Martin loved songs about trains, so his version focused on that.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U79oSUPO9M

Of course, I also became a teenager in the early 90's, so I loved the grunge, too. Pearl Jam and Nirvana were my favorites by a pretty fair margin. So Nirvana doing a version of In the Pines, though with the alternative title, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, hit me in some sort of way.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEMm7gxBYSc

One of my favorite covers, is Stevie Ray Vaughn's version of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing."  The original is great, but SRV was able to put so much soul into his, and having seen him perform it live on more than one occasion, it's gotta be in my top 10 favorite songs of all time.

SRV's cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6G53BMgugo

Jimi's original:

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

And a bonus, I also really like Sting's version from his second solo album:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t73ZTRCdIc

Damn, great call.  SRV's version is certainly a top 5-10 song for me.  Never realized Sting covered it.  I enjoyed it, but I think I would have liked it way more as a first cover

I always find it funny that 4 guys recorded a song at the music department at UGa (Last Kiss), and yet it was Pearl Jam, not REM, who did a good cover of it

Not gonna comment on the song as a cover.

The video was... Disturbing. That did not age well.

Not even sure it was the David Lee Roth cover video that aged the worst


https://youtu.be/cmbhfI8f_Ek?si=SJmt3qslfkf-vbVP

OG version one of the better written songs by a Band with many great songs.

https://youtu.be/tAGnKpE4NCI?si=1ggQDdXsBsxkAY50

Then....amidst an entire LP of covers of this song, emerges this one as my favorite, by Chris Stapleton.

https://youtu.be/jzN9rdvXmS4?si=ARD4FQSyQe6mAo0c

In the 80s Billy Idol and Tiffany both topped the charts with covers of songs by Tommy James and the Shondells from the 1050s. Mony Mony and I Think We're Alone Now, specifically. 

So the guy had two songs topping the charts 30 years after they were originally recorded, and both were also redone as parodies on the same Weird Al album; Alimony and I Think I'm a Clone Now. 

Speaking of Weird Al, man, what a musician. Not a cover, but what he calls a "pastiche" which is basically a song he invents that is a lot like what the band he is parodying would make. For example, he did "Craigslist," which is a made up Doors song. The upfront keyboard and rambling nonsense into something that kind of rocks - it's all there.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4sALru9IJk

The man is a mix of a guy with a PhD in music composition who is also in an improv group.  His biggest "hits" are unfunny parodies, but he has songs like these that show how musically talented he is.  But it's way funnier if Coolio was Amish I guess