Favorite Tribute Albums?


I'm a big fan of Tribute and Cover Albums. Some of my favorites include: Holly Cole's Temptation (Tom Waits covers); Poet - A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt; Till the Night Is Gone- A Tribute to Doc Pomus; Timeless - A Tribute To Hank Williams; Bob Marley A Tribute The Riddim Of A Legend and This One's for Him A Tribute to Guy Clark. I would enjoy hearing others recommendations.

 

davidchampa

Being a huge fan of JJ Cale the album The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale by Eric Clapton and friends including John Mayer, Mark Knopfler, Tom Petty and Willie Nelson. The album released in 2014 a year after he passed covers some amazing songs (see below) and is very much worth a listen. Well recorded too!

1 "Call Me the Breeze" Eric Clapton
2 "Rock and Roll Records" Clapton & Tom Petty
3 "Someday" Mark Knopfler
4 "Lies" Clapton & John Mayer
5 "Sensitive Kind" Don White
6 "Cajun Moon" Clapton
7 "Magnolia" Mayer
8 "I Got the Same Old Blues" Petty & Clapton
9 "Songbird" Willie Nelson & Clapton
10 "Since You Said Goodbye" Clapton
11 "I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)" White & Clapton
12 "The Old Man and Me" Petty
13 "Train to Nowhere" Knopfler, White & Clapton
14 "Starbound" Nelson
15 "Don't Wait" Clapton & Mayer
16 "Crying Eyes" Clapton, Christine Lakeland

 

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@ezwind 

Don’t believe anyone has mentioned the Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert recording. 

 

I liked this one especially:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_dHVf4KH1I

 

I have to say, though, that as a rule I find the Tribute genre pretty uninspiring. How often does a cover truly equal an original performance, let alone surpass it?  Not that often, to my ears. Emmy Lou Harris is pretty consistently satisfying in this regard but I can’t think of anyone else, off-hand. 

 

 

Sweet Home Alabama - The Country Music Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd

Gretchen Peters - The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury