Artist	Song
The Afghan Whigs	Come See About Me
from Uptown Avondale - EP (1999)
Alton Ellis	It's a Shame
from Darker Than Blue: Soul from Jamdown 1973-1980 (2001)
Cyndi Lauper	What's Going On
from Twelve Deadly Cyns...And Then Some (1994)
Detroit Cobras, The	Bye Bye Baby
from Love, Life, and Leaving (2001)
Bananarama & Fun Boy Three	Really Saying Something
from The Very Best of Bananarama (2005)
Grateful Dead	Second That Emotion
from Ladies and Gentlemen... The Grateful Dead - Fillmore East, New York City, April 1971 (2009)
The High Numbers	Leaving Here
from Thirty Years of Maximum R&B (1994)
The J. Geils Band	First I Look At the Purse
from The J. Geils Band (2008)
Joan Osborne	Smiling Faces Sometimes
from How Sweet It Is (2002)
John Lee Hooker	Money (That's What I Want)
from It Serves You Right to Suffer (1999)
KC & The Sunshine Band	It's the Same Old Song (LP Version)
from KC & the Sunshine Band: 25th Anniversary Collection (2004)
Kiki Ebsen	Tears of a Clown
from Kiki. (2005)
Laura Nyro	The Bells
from Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro (1997)
Linda Ronstadt	Tracks of My Tears
from Prisoner In Disguise (2009)
Lulu	Stubborn Kind of Fellow
from The Best Of (2007)
Luther Vandross & Cheryl Lynn	If This World Were Mine
from The Essential Luther Vandross (2003)
The Rance Allen Group	Just My Imagination (Just My Salvation)
from The Best of the Rance Allen Group (2006)
The Rascals	Too Many Fish In the Sea
from The Rascals: Collections (2005)
Nancy Wilson	Uptight (Everything's Alright)
from Anthology (2000)
The Slits	I Heard It Through the Grapevine
from Cut (2009)
The Staple Singers	You've Got to Earn It
from The Very Best of the Staple Singers (2007)
Taj Mahal	I Can't Help Myself (Sugarpie Honeybunch) [Bonus Track]
from Dancing the Blues (1993)
Thao	You've Really Got a Hold On Me
from We Brave Bee Stings and All (2008)
Iggy & The Stooges	Money (That's What I Want)
from Anthology Box - The Stooges & Beyond (2010)
Vanilla Fudge	Shotgun
from Rhino Hi-Five: Vanilla Fudge (2005)

Comment:

The golden age of Motown was still in full effect when blues legend John Lee Hooker stepped into the studio in 1966 to cut a slinky jump-boogie cover — complete with note-bending, [i]mind[/i]-bending trombone licks — of Barrett Strong’s “Money (That's What I Want).” Two years earlier, the High Numbers recorded a mere four tracks before morphing into the Who, and their whiskey-throated, snare-hammering version of Eddie Holland’s “Leaving Here” stayed buried in the vaults for [i]decades[/i] before being unearthed for their expanded [i]Odds and Sods[/i]. And the Rance Allen Group turned the well-worn R&B-cover formula on its head: instead of rewriting a sacred track to give it a worldly luster, their version of the Temptations’ “Just My Imagination” pointed its intentions heavenward, with the lyric’s “imagination” transformed into “salvation.”

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