Elvis Costello -- "A Good Year for the Roses" and "How Much I Lied" Taj Mahal "Six Days on the Road" Dave Edmunds -- The Race is On" Zal Yanovsky -- "Brown to Blue"
Rolling Stones: Bob Wills Is Still The King Neil Young: The Wayward Wind Janis Joplin: Me & Bobby McGhee Elvis Costello: Must You Throw Dirt In My Face Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood: Jackson Dusty Springfield: Silver Threads & Golden Needles Tom Jones: Just Dropped In to see what condition my condition was in Van Morrison: Things Have Gone to Pieces John Martyn: Satisfied Mind
Can I also cheat, and mention the following country tunes done by artists outside the rock genre, please:
Percy Sledge: True Love Travels on A Gravel Road Candi Staton: In The Ghetto James Carr: Life Just Turned Her That Way Ray Charles: I Can't Stop Loving You Ray Charles: We Had It All Richard Thompson: I'm Turning Off A Memory Norah Jones: I Walk The Line Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny: The Precious Jewel Cassandra Wilson: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Tony Bennett: Cold Cold Heart John Holt: Help Me Make It Through The Night Toots & The Maytels: Take Me Home, Country Roads. Etta James: Almost Persuaded
For the record, I haven't included jerry Lee Lewis, as from the mid/late 60s he became a country artist, and there's always been a country element to the Killer's music, be it Fools Like Me, You Win Again, I'll Sail My Ship Alone, Pen & Paper, even before he hit big with Another Place, Another Time.
I could also throw in Clarence Gatemouth Brown's Dark End of The Hallway, Up Jumped The Devil, and his When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again, but then Gatemouth made a conscious effort to record country material from the 1960s onwards.
Furthermore, Linda Martell's Color Him Father is a great country track by a black artist, and shows that it wasn't just Charley Pride that made excellent country. James Brown also swings Your Cheatin' Heart with aplomb too.
little richard-get rhythm bruce springsteen-give my love to rose george thorogood-move it on over me first and the gimme gimmes-goodbye earl black stone cherry-can't you see shinedown-simple man aretha franklin-you are my sunshine u2-don't take your guns to town
Dion has some really great blues albums recorded over the past few years ago out there. Y'all might find 'em as torrents. And in the Dion vein, check this out. It's great.
And, since the Stones did Diddley's "Mona", here's Dion doing a Diddley cover. A little past country, but we'll get back to that in a moment.
Here's some other country oriented grooves.
Okay, TJ might be stretching it a bit for a rock performer, but check these out.
Love the above version of this song. One of Willie's best.
And for my hometown, even though he ain't a rock artist....
If you're from Baltimore, y'all know the meaning of this song: Ya'll can take the boy out of Baltimore, but y'all can't take Baltimore out of the boy.
And for where I live now, there's a reference in the chorus to this song where I hang my hat these daze.
And, for some of y'all, Doug Sahm is better known as this cat. We oldsters thought or were misled to believe Doug's band was one of them English Invasion bands. Very cool songs.
And all this 60s booshey leads to something like the following.
And here's Flaco Jimenez from the Texas Tornados with Dwight Yoakam.
More Dwight.
And tell me the difference between Waylon and the Stones in these two cuts.
I play the above two cuts back to back in my music mixes. Hope y'all enjoy checking all these cuts out.