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Dave Edmunds & Carlene Carter "Ride Easy Baby" ( 1980 )

Bob Dylan 'I Forgot More (Than You'll Ever Know ) " ( 1970 )

The Band "Long Black Veil" ( 1968 )

Pete Townsend 'There's a Heartache Following Me " ( 1970 )

Keith Richards "Apartment # 9" ( 1977 )

Keith - You Win Again
Keith - Love Hurts
Keith - We Had It All

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"

Check these out.

























Yeah, it's a good part of the entire album. And the entire album is worth grabbing off of Tube or as a torrent. And give this one a whirl...





Scaggs album from 1969 is well worth grabbing. Killer guitar song with him and Duane Allman on it - Loan Me A Dime.

Jason and the Scorchers - Lost Highway

Elvis--- 'Blue Moon of Kentucky"

Jerry Lee Lewis-- "The Green Green Grass of Home"

Beach Boys--"Okie From Muskogee" & "Cotton Fields"

White Stripes doing Jolene

Well Stones doing Hank Snow s " I'm Movin On" live of course!

Beautiful Clapton cover of a great song by the country rock band Cowboy.

REM did some nice Glen Campbell covers.

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.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Singer (Johnny Cash cover)

...Speaking of Mike Ness, I like Social Distortion's version of Making Believe.

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

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...Speaking of Mike Ness, I like Social Distortion's version of Making Believe.

Me too.

I think the whole album is great. The japanese version has Hank Williams "Alone and Forsaken" on it.

Check these out, gang.





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.