Best Tributes, Covers, Dedications


There have been some fine tribute, cover, and dedication albums. A few examples in pop include:

The Bridge-A Tribute to Neil Young
Hank Williams-Timeless
Till The Night Is Gone-A Tribute to Doc Pomus
Shangrila-A Tribute to the Kinks

I would include albums of original material in which the dedications are presented thematically, like Lou Reed's "Magic & Loss"(Doc Pomus), or Lou Reed with John Cale "Songs for Drella"(Warhol).

The idea could be stretched into a general list of "best of" cover albums. I nominate Matthew Sweet's recent "Under the Covers Vol. I & II.

Any other good examples in pop, jazz, or classical?
dgarretson
Cat Power "Jukebox"
Cowboy Junkies "Revisited"
Annie Lennox "Nostalgia"
With the recent passing of Joe Cocker... although he never did a cover's lp to my knowledge, he produced several great cover songs.
In keeping with the season...
The Judds, "Christmas Time With The Judds". Excellent!

A very good tribute album and one of my favorites , is Paul Rogers "Muddy Water Blues". Also , " Stone Free: A tribute to Jimi Hendrix" and "Encomium" Led Zeppelin tribute.
My all-time favorite. "Treasures Left Behind: A Tribute To Kate Wolf"

Kate Wolf was a California-based songwriter whose "words fell like rain on the dry desert plain-Precious and so quickly gone".