Artist	Song
Dave Edmunds	Girls Talk
from The Best of Dave Edmunds (2005)
Paul McCartney	My Brave Face
from Flowers In the Dirt (Remastered) (2010)
Aimee Mann	The Fall of the World's Own Optimist
from Bachelor No. 2 (2008)
Johnny Cash	Hidden Shame
from Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town/Boom Chicka Boom (2003)
Dusty Springfield	Losing You (Just a Memory)
from Dusty Springfield: Gold (2006)
Roy Orbison	The Comedians
from Mystery Girl (2008)
Diana Krall	Almost Blue
from The Girl in the Other Room (2004)
Howard Tate	Either Side of the Same Town
from Rediscovered (2003)
Solomon Burke	The Judgement
from Don't Give Up On Me (2008)
Charles Brown	I Wonder How She Knows
from Someone to Love (1992)
Roger McGuinn	You Bowed Down
from Back from Rio (1991)
Everything But the Girl	Alison
from Acoustic (2010)
Los Lobos	Uncomplicated
from Ride This - The Covers EP (2004)
T-Bone Burnett	It's Not Too Late
from Twenty Twenty: The Essential T Bone Burnett (2006)
Rosanne Cash	Our Little Angel
from Retrospective (1995)
Mary Coughlan	Upon a Veil of Midnight Blue
from Love for Sale (1999)
Norma Waterson	The Birds Will Still Be Singing
from Norma Waterson (2006)
Anne Sofie von Otter, Bebe Risenfors, Johan Lindström, Magnus Persson, Mats Schubert, Michael Blair & Svante Henryson	I Want to Vanish
from For the Stars (2001)
Bryan Mills, Ivor Talbot, Joby Talbot, Miggy Baradas, Rob Farrer, Stuart 'Pinkie' Bates & Ute Lemper	Couldn't You Keep That to Yourself
from Ute Lemper: Punishing Kiss (2000)
Kristen Vigard	God Give Me Strength
from God, Loves & Angels (2006)
Diana Krall	The Girl in the Other Room
from The Girl in the Other Room (2004)
Rachel Sweet	Stranger In the House
from BABY: The Best of Rachel Sweet (1978)
Zucchero	Miss Mary
from Miserere (2011)

Comment:

Like Dylan and the Beatles in the '60s, Elvis’ pen never seems to leave the page — even his B-sides and castoffs rival other writers’ best work — and artists from every corner of the pop universe are constantly raiding his songbook. Dave Edmunds, fronting the band that would become Rockpile, rips the fangs out of "Girls Talk," smoothing over its sharp-tongued edginess and buffing it out to a mirror-finished power pop masterpiece. Diana Krall drags "Almost Blue" out of a smoky dive just down the street from Heartbreak Hotel and into an uptown supper club, dressing it up in evening clothes for late-night jazz sophisticates. And Roy Orbison transforms "The Comedians" from the breezy, self-mocking tune we know from [i]Goodbye Cruel World[/i] into a show-stopping operatic melodrama worthy of Puccini. But don't stop exploring here — the more you hear, the more you'll understand just why he’s regarded as a songwriter’s songwriter.

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