Music List

Cover Lovers: 10 Great Covers Albums

By Jim Allen

Anyone devoid of original ideas can knock off new versions of other folks' great tunes and come out sounding at least halfway decent, and many a floundering artist has used the device to maintain a holding pattern. The real trick is to turn out an album full of other people's songs and actually bring something substantive to the table.

CRITICAL LIST

Kicking Against The Pricks

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Scratch My Back

Peter Gabriel
Piano-and-orchestra ballads, with nary a guitar or drum kit in sight >>

The Covers Record

Cat Power

Kojak Variety

Elvis Costello

Thing of the Past

Vetiver

I’ll Take Care Of You

Mark Lanegan

Step Inside This House

Lyle Lovett

Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music

Ray Charles

To Almost No One

Simon Joyner

We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions

Bruce Springsteen