I really like covers where a different interpretation has been put on the original.

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Speaking of different interpretations, YMSB's bluegrass cover of the Stones' 'No Expectations' is my favorite version. For me, it's the definitive one, as I had somehow never heard the original before I heard this one. Plus I love Bluegrass. I've been listening to YMWB since the early 2000s so I picked a version from then.

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^ always nice to hear a really nice cover of my favorite song!

I like Chris Smither's cover of Robert Johnson's blues classic

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I got to see Chris a couple of months ago. He was fantastic.

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Pretty much any cover Joe Cocker does

Whitney over Dolly
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Tina over Al Green
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Not as good but a decent cover. You gotta pretty brave to do a cover of Zeppelin (especially if you are a drummer). The best Zeppelin cover I have ever heard was when Heart did Stairway at the Kennedy Center Honors Led Zeppelin. I'm sure its been posted already but it is worth hearing again.
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Having Bonzo's son on drums was touching and having the entire choir wearing the derbys was a great tribute to one of the finest rock drummers to ever live.

Cornell!

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Playlist of covers by Chris...

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15 years ago before HD video was commonplace. One evening at some non-descript, random, 3 star strip mall pizza joint in the Atlanta suburbs (Smyrna, GA). A local musician Dad climbs on stage with two of his fat, middle-aged band buddies, his high school daughter (17) and her friend (16) and proceed to create this incredible live cover. No auto-tune, no post-production. David Crosby (RIP) and Graham Nash both compliment them. I still find it amazing all these years later.

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Don't know if these are "better than the originals" as described by the OP, but this trio of old blues songs were made FM radio famous by rockers. I guess its as good a way as any for youngsters to get indoctrinated into classic blues music.

(I'm a little surprised they haven't been posted yet, but except for Thorogood, they're not that great.)

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