If Stevie Were to Record a Covers Album...
 

...What would you like to see her record? Pick an albums worth of songs (let's say 13 songs like her last album) and tell us what they are. They can be classic rock, newer songs, oldies, swing songs, jazz, anything.

My picks:

1. I Shall Be Released (Dylan)
2. Stuff Like That There (Various)- It would be so adorable! LOL
3. You Got It (Roy Orbison/Bonnie Raitt)
4. The Waiting (Tom Petty)
5. Stay With Me Baby (Various)- I can just hear her now, 'I wish someone would grab ahold of me and say 'NO! You CAN'T Go! NO, STAY!!' :nod:
6. Train In Vain (The Clash/Annie Lennox)
7. Beast Of Burden (Rolling Stones)
8. Frozen (Madonna)
9. Tombstone Blues (Dylan)
10. E Street Shuffle (Springsteen)
11. Rebel Rebel (Bowie)
12. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (Bette Midler)
13. Boys of Summer (Don Henley)

Personally, I think that would be the worlds perfect covers album. :laugh:

Re: If Stevie Were to Record a Covers Album...
 

I know you like Bette, but let's give the Andrews Sisters their due, even if they didn't write it.:) (Sorry, I've had a thing for them since seeing them in an Abbott and Costello movie when I was little.)

Okay, my picks, off the top of my head:

Half Moon - Janis Joplin
Kozmic Blues - Janis Joplin
I Need to Know - Tom Petty (Put it on an album, already!)
Fistful of Rain - Warren Zevon
Wild World - Cat Stevens
Desperado - The Eagles
Love the One You're With - Stephen Stills
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor
St. Teresa - Joan Osbourne

I'll be back to add the rest.

- Jake:wavey:

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:laugh:

I'm not a fan of the orignal Andrews Sisters version. So there! :laugh:

I can't stand the Eagles, but Stevie could do wonders with Desperado. Good one!! :nod:

Ooooh.... this is tough :confused: Here's mine, in no particular order...

1. 'Possession'- Sarah Mclachlan
2. 'These Dreams'- Heart
3. 'Enjoy the Silence'- Depeche Mode
4. 'Tiny Dancer'- Elton John
5. 'Who's Dreaming this Dream'- Christine McVie
6. 'Back 2 Good'- matchbox twenty
7. 'Breath of Life'- Erasure
8. 'Simple Kind of Life'- No Doubt
9. 'The World I Know'- Collective Soul
10.'Rain'- Madonna
11.'Bizarre Love Triangle'-New Order
12.'Sorta Fairytale'-Tori Amos
13.'First Cut is the Deepest'-Shery Crow/Cat Stevens

To Make You Feel My Love- Bob Dylan
Piece Of My Heart- Janis Joplin
American Girl- Tom Petty
Bridge Over Troubled Water-S&G
Beware Of Darkness-George Harrison
Goin' To California- Led Zep
Old Man-Neil Young
God Only Knows-The Beach Boys
Walk On-U2
Love & Happiness-Al Green

As someone mentioned a while ago, I think Stevie would do wonders with R.E.M.'s Losing My Religion. (with Lindsey on mandolin thingy of course)

Shamus :)

I think a collaboration between Stevie and Michael Stipe could produce something AMAZING. :nod:

In no particular order...

Counting Crows- Long December
Sheryl Crow- Home
Fiona Apple- Never Is A Promise
Fiona Apple- I Know
Tori Amos- Winter
Poe- Fingertips
10cc- I'm Not In Love (it's been covered LOTS but Stevie would rock it)
The Dixie Chicks- Top of the World
No Doubt- Don't Speak
Sarah McLachlan- Possession
Ella Fitzgerald- Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
Beth Gibbons (lead singer of Portishead)- Tom The Model

Stevie has a voice that was meant to sing jazz and blues so I think she'd probably sing the hell out of ANY jazz standard you'd throw her way :nod: I have much love for the jazz :nod:

:nod:

- Jake

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Patti, Maxine, Laverne, and Stevie. Put this lady in a uniform!:)

- Jake

I would love to hear her cover "These Dreams" by Heart. I know it was originally given to Stevie but she turned it down.

If I get a chance later, I'll come up with enough for a full album, but the ONE song I've always thought cried out for Stevie's voice, is "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore."


Loneliness is a cloak you wear
A deep shade of blue is always there

The sun ain't gonna shine anymore
The moon ain't gonna rise in the sky
The tears are always clouding your eyes
When you're without love

Emptiness is the place you're in
With nothing to lose
But no more to win

The sun ain't gonna shine anymore
The moon ain't gonna rise in the sky
The tears are always clouding your eyes
When you're without love

Lonely... without you, baby
(Boy,) I need you
I can't go on....

The sun ain't gonna shine anymore
The moon ain't gonna rise in the sky
The tears are always clouding your eyes
When you're without love

Loneliness is the cloak you wear
A deep shade of blue is always there...

The sun ain't gonna shine anymore
The moon ain't gonna rise in the sky
The tears are always clouding your eyes
When you're without love

What a depressing song! :laugh:

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Those are two of my favorite Janis Joplin songs. It would be cool to hear Stevie sing them but I usually prefer the originals to covers. :)

Yes, so unlike the light and cheerful "Storms".;)

- Jake