Artist	Song
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood	Jackson
from Nancy & Lee (2006)
Bob Dylan	It Ain't Me, Babe
from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (1983)
Nine Inch Nails	Hurt
from The Downward Spiral (Deluxe Edition) (2004)
Leadbelly	Rock Island Line
from Leadbelly Vol. 2 1940-1943 (2005)
Kris Kristofferson	Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
from The Essential Kris Kristofferson (2004)
Tim Hardin	If I Were a Carpenter
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tim Hardin (2002)
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	Orange Blossom Special
from The Essential Bill Monroe & the Monroe Brothers (1997)
Jimmy Webb	Highwayman
from Ten Easy Pieces (1996)
Don Gibson	Oh Lonesome Me
from RCA Country Legends: Don Gibson (Remastered) (2001)
Bob Dylan	One Too Many Mornings
from The Times They Are A-Changin' (2005)
Hank Williams	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
from Hank Williams: 40 Greatest Hits (1988)
Guy Clark	Desperados Waiting for a Train
from Old No. 1 (2008)
Leadbelly	Goodnight Irene
from The Best of Leadbelly (2005)
Bruce Springsteen	Johnny 99
from Nebraska (1984)
The Band	The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
from The Band: Greatest Hits (2000)
The Rolling Stones	No Expectations
from Singles 1968-1971 (2005)
Bruce Springsteen	Highway Patrolman
from Nebraska (1984)
Kris Kristofferson	Me and Bobby McGee
from The Essential Kris Kristofferson (2004)
Woody Guthrie	The Wreck of the Old 97
from Muleskinner Blues: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 2 (1997)
Elvis Presley	I Forgot to Remember to Forget
from Sunrise (1999)
Vaughn Monroe	Riders In the Sky
from Classic Years of Vaughn Monroe, Vol. 1 (2007)
Hank Snow	I've Been Everywhere
from The Essential Hank Snow (1995)
Harry Chapin	Cat's In the Cradle
from Verities & Balderdash (2005)
J.J. Cale	Call Me the Breeze
from The Very Best of J.J. Cale (2006)
Jimmie Rodgers	Waiting for a Train
from Essential Jimmie Rodgers (1997)
Nick Lowe	Without Love
from Quiet Please... - The New Best of Nick Lowe (2009)
Merle Travis	Dark As a Dungeon
from In Boston, 1959 (2003)
Tennessee Ernie Ford	Sixteen Tons
from Vintage Collections - Tennessee Ernie Ford (1997)
The Weavers	If I Had a Hammer
from Best of the Vanguard Years (2001)
Tim Hardin	The Lady Came from Baltimore
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tim Hardin (2002)

Comment:

For the most part, Johnny Cash stayed close to home when it came to artists he covered. Not only was Kris Kristofferson a personal friend, but one of Nashville's (or anywhere's) most-covered songwriters. Similarly, Tim Hardin had a golden moment in the late '60s, when his songs were on the setlist of every folkie. Where it gets interesting is during the American Recordings years, where the likes of Nine Inch Nails showed up cheek-by-jowl with Hank Williams.

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