More Covers that Beat the Original Not on Ultimate-Guitar’s list

Folks, I was compelled to put together a list of covers that beat the original, that weren't on the ultimate-guitar.com's list I saw last week. Check out some of the videos featuring Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan doing some famous Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy Renditions. Also some Hendrix, and some lesser known Aggrolites and Goldfinger.

Key to the Highway – Eric Clapton covering for Big Bill Broonzy

 

In this case we have many examples of Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, and even BB King with Jeff Beck.

 

Key to the Highway is usually credited to Charles "Chas" Segar and Big Bill Broonzy.  As Broonzy explains: "Some of the verses he [Charlie Segar] was singing it in the South the same time as I sung it in the South. And practically all of blues is just a little change from the way that they was sung when I was a kid ... You take one song and make fifty out of it ... just change it a little bit."

 

 

Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) – Stevie Ray Vaughan covering for Jimi Hendrix

 

Few people have succeeded in rendering right homage to Hendrix.  However, Vaughan, the anointed one exceeds Hendrix in Voodoo Child (not to mention Little Wing).

 

 

Mary Had a Little Lamb – Stevie Ray Vaughan covering for Buddy Guy

‘nuff said.

 

 

 

Peter Gunn – Roy Buchanan covering for Henry Mancini

 

Roy Buchanan’s (September 23, 1939 - August 14, 1988) musical career began in Pixley, California. His father was a sharecropper (not a Pentecostal preacher as Buchanan himself had claimed). Buchanan told how his first musical memories were of racially-mixed revival meetings his family would attend. “Gospel,” he recalled, “that’s how I first got into black music”. He in fact drew upon many disparate influences while learning to play his instrument (although he later claimed his aptitude was derived from being “half-wolf”). He initially showed talent on the steel guitar before switching to the standard instrument in the early 50’s.

In 1957, Buchanan made his recording debut, playing the solo on My Babe for Chicago’s Chess Records. Three years later, Buchanan headed north to Canada, where he took charge of the guitar role in Ronnie Hawkins' band (a group later to gain fame as The Band). The group’s guitar player, Robbie Robertson, studied guitar under Buchanan, and took over the lead guitar spot when Buchanan left the group

Roy Buchanan playing the Peter Gunn Theme live.

 

 

Like A Rolling Stone – The Rolling Stones covering for Bob Dylan

 

 

Killing Floor - Jimi Hendrix covering for Howlin’ Wolf

Don’t Let Me Down – The Aggrolites covering for the Beatles

 

 

Feel Like Makin’ Love – Goldfinger covering for Bad Company

 

 

I Will Survive – Cake covering for Gloria Gaynor

 

Cake's cover of "I Will Survive" was featured in the 1998 French film Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train

 

Edge of Seventeen – Jonas Covering for Stevie Nicks

 

Edge of Seventeen (Just Like The White Winged Dove) is a song written and recorded by Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, the third single from her successful 1981 solo debut album Bella Donna (Italian for Beautiful Woman).  Written by Nicks to express the grief resulting from the death of her uncle Jonathan and the murder of John Lennon during the same week of December 1980, the song features a distinctive, chugging 16th-note guitar riff, and a simple chord structure typical of Nicks's songs.

 

But Jonas does a much better job

 

 

Thanks to last.fm, wikipedia, and youtube