I have a whole Spotify playlist chronicling these, although I wouldn’t stand by every last track here as better than the original.
Some highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khAJcSbajNw
I’m not sure how to explain the sheer amount of BALLS it takes to cover this Hendrix tune in particular but Gary Clark Jr had em and knocked it out of the fucking park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJuA5VSj6fk
And while the British Invasion was largely marked by hollow empty imitations of the blues they had some stellar cuts if you look past the careers of Yardbirds alums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO1dLCOJ7m4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYRID5pSoYo
I’m still vaguely surprised Bruce didn’t write this so very Bruce song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78pdEP9Pr4s
This one actually sparked interest in Gary US Bonds, the original artist. Bruce and Steve produced his comeback albums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOYMHP89xrg
and those albums produced this amazingly strange Bob Dylan cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV7qIwzVyVY
I’ll commit some heresey too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hFl1mIC-jI
This song became something of a standard but Shakey’s cover is REALLY hard to top
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS0PvOdsHSw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvjGxcZSMz4
And this one isn’t on YouTube but it’s great
I have a lot more but between the length of this post and the fact that the best ones aren’t on YouTube due to copywrite restrictions I think I’m gonna call it here for now.