Digging For Covers: The Guide

The Beatles

• Al Green - "I Want To Hold Your Hand"

Bob Dylan

• The History of Cocaine Blues
• Bruce Springsteen - "I Want You"

Bruce Springsteen

• Camera Obscura - "Tougher Than The Rest"

The Cure

• Grant Lee Phillips - "Boys Don't Cry"
• The Get Up Kids - "Close To Me"
• The Postmarks - "Six Different Ways"
• The Soft Pack - "Grinding Halt"
• Mystery Jets & Esser - "In Between Days"
• The Watson Twins - "Just Like Heaven"

David Bowie

• TV On The Radio - "Heroes"
• Magnetic Fields - "Heroes"

Harry Nilsson

• Dawn Landes - "Lifeline"

INXS

• The Fruit Bats - "Never Tear Us Apart"
  

Jimmy Cliff

• Harry Nilsson - "Many Rivers To Cross"

Johnny Cash

• My Morning Jacket - "Lead Me Father"

Kinks

• Elliot Smith - "Waterloo Sunset"

Leonard Cohen

• Johnny Cash - "Bird On A Wire"
• Serena Ryder - "Sisters of Mercy"
• Nina Simone - "Suzanne"
• Vandaveer - "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
• Rufus Wainwright - "Chelsea Hotel, No. 2"
• Walkmen - "Passing By"

Oasis

• Elliot Smith - "Supersonic"

Prince

• The Eels - "I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man"
• Sharon Jones - "Take Me With U"

The Smiths

• She & Him - "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want"
• The Stars - "This Charming Man"

The Velvet Underground

• David Bowie - "White Light/White Heat"
• M. Ward - "Pale Blue Eyes"
• REM - "Pale Blues Eyes"
• Alejandro Escovedo - "Pale Blue Eyes"

Various

• Deer Tick covers Sean Kingston - "Beautiful Girls"
• Jack Johnson and G. Love cover Madonna - "Holiday"
• The Jags cover Cat Stevens - "Here Comes My Baby"
• Jim James covers George Harrison - "Behind That Locked Door"
• Miles Fisher covers The Talking Heads - "This Must Be The Place"
• Redbird covers REM - "You Are The Everything"
• Sharon Jones covers Kenny Rogers - "What Condition My Condition Was In"
• The Soft Pack covers Phoenix - "Fences"
• Vetiver cover Bobby Charles - "I Must Be In A Good Place Now"
• Clem Snide covers Ritchie Valens - "Donna"

Photo by Cherry Pickens