Who would you rather see covering songs by the Band?

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Endless Highway comes out tomorrow and it looks like the most boring tribute album ever:

The artist and track listing for ENDLESS HIGHWAY is as follows:
Jack Johnson - "I Shall Be Released"
The Allman Brothers - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
Death Cab For Cutie - "Rocking Chair"
My Morning Jacket - "It Makes No Difference"
Lee Ann Womack - "The Weight"
Jakob Dylan - "Whispering Pines"
Gomez - "Up On Cripple Creek"
Bruce Hornsby - "King Harvest"
Rosanne Cash - "Unfaithful Servant"
Blues Traveler - "Rag Mama Rag"
Joe Henry - "Bessie Smith"
Guster - "This Wheel's On Fire"
Widespread Panic - "Chest Fever"
John Hiatt & North Mississippi Allstars - "Ain't No More Cane"
Jackie Greene - "Look Out Cleveland"
Animal Liberation Orchestra (Jack Johnson's touring band) - "Ophelia"
Steve Reynolds - "Stage Fright"
Josh Turner - "When I Paint My Masterpiece"
Government Mule - "The Shape I'm In"

And thus I ask: who would YOU like to see cover songs from the Band's awesome discography?

― max (maxreax), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 02:18 (eighteen years ago)

I vote Jay-Z for "Stage Fright," Hannah Montana for "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and a Neptunes remix of "The Weight."

― max (maxreax), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 02:20 (eighteen years ago)

I was thinking about this earlier today. Death Cab for cutie covered maybe the worst songs on the Band's best album (and of course did so horribly). If they barely got away with "Rocking Chair", what makes Ben Gibbard think he can get away with it? Idiot.

the My Morning Jacket cover is fucking fire though.

I want to hear a really good cover of Unfaithful Servant, though I'm not sure by whom.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:33 (eighteen years ago)

Yo La Tengo, "Long Distance Operator"
(Does it matter that Dylan wrote the song?)

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:46 (eighteen years ago)

Will Oldham - King Harvest
Van Morrison - Acadian Driftwood

― sonofstan (sonofstan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

x-post, apparently it doesn't matter because a cover of i shall be released is on the tribute.

souled american - something, hmm, "tears of rage"
flying canyon -- that ragtime willie tune "oh to be home again..."
skygreen leopards -- has to be a sweet falsetto one like "whispering pines"
neil michael hagerty -- "unfaithful servant"?

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

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