Artist	Song
Ray Price	Night Life
from The Essential Ray Price (2007)
George Jones	Family Bible
from The Definitive Collection: George Jones (1955-1962) (2004)
Faron Young	Hello Walls
from An Introduction to Faron Young (Re-Recorded Versions) (2006)
Billy Walker	Funny How Time Slips Away
from Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 4 - The Nashville Sound (1991)
Roy Orbison	Pretty Paper
from The Essential Roy Orbison (2006)
Johnny Bush	Undo the Right
from 14 Greatest Hits (2004)
Waylon Jennings	Pretend I Never Happened
from The Essential Waylon Jennings (2007)
George Jones	Yesterday's Wine
from By Request (2008)
Johnny Cash	The Time of the Preacher
from No Depression Compilation - What It Sounds Like Vol. 1 (2004)
Emmylou Harris & Tanya Tucker	Sister's Coming Home
from Blue Kentucky Girl (2004)
k.d. lang	Three Days
from Absolute Torch and Twang (2008)
Raul Malo	Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
from You're Only Lonely (2009)
Cake	Sad Songs and Waltzes
from Fashion Nugget (Deluxe Version) (2007)
Chris Ledoux	Red Headed Stranger
from Used To Want To Be A Cowboy (1991)
The Country Gentlemen	Bloody Mary Morning
from Joe's Last Train (2005)
Johnny Bush & Justin Trevino	Mr. Record Man
from Texas On a Saturday Night (2007)
Waylon Jennings	Me and Paul
from Waylon Live (2003)
Big Al Downing	Touch Me
from Big Al Downing Greatest Hits Volume 1 (2004)
Rosemary Clooney	On the Road Again
from Still On the Road (2006)

Comment:

Songwriter first, performer second: Willie could have been bigger than General Motors without ever stepping behind a mic, as you can hear on these Nelson-penned covers by the likes of Johnny Cash, George Jones, and Rosemary Clooney. The late Patsy Cline aimed for the fences on “Crazy,” wringing out every drop of sympathy, her voice swooping and sliding on a sentimental rollercoaster for just short of three heart-wrenching minutes. Cake, on the other hand, maintains an ironic distance on “Sad Songs and Waltzes,” draining all the emotional color and leaving the tune’s black-and-white bones out on display. k.d. lang reroutes Willie’s “Three Days” from the folky direction in which it started to a full-blown honky-tonkin’ pedal-steel Western swing production. And these covers merely scuff the surface — “Crazy” alone has been recorded more than 130 times.

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