Here are the first three that come to mind:
Manfred Mann - Blinded by the Light (Bruce Springsteen)
John Mayer Trio (Live) - Wait ‘til Tomorrow (Hendrix)
Alana Davis - 32 Flavors (Ani DiFranco)
what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original?
The first ones to come to mind are Whitney’s version of I Will Always Love You and Allen Stone’s Georgia On My Mind but I would love to hear other contributions as well! I feel like there are a lot of songs where a covered version gets more popular than the original and people end up not realizing that it is a cover (ex. i had a friend that genuinely believed the Jonas Brothers wrote Year 3000). so, what‘a a song that was written by one artist but (figuratively) owned by another?