Artist	Song
Diamanda Galas	I Put A Spell On You (Screamin' Jay Hawkins)
Buck Satan & The 666 Shooters	A Friend Of The Devil (Greatful Dead)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Wanted Man (Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash)
16 Horsepower	Bad Moon Risin' (C.C.R.)
Lydia Lunch & Nels Cline	Heartattack & Vine (Tom Waits)
Nick Cave	Knoxville Girl (Tradational)
Metallica	Last Caress - Acoustic (The Misfits)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Mack The Knife (Louis Armstrong)
Mike Ness	Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)
Johnny Cash	The Mercy Seat (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)
Foetus & Lydia Lunch	Don't Fear The Reaper (B.O.C.)
BloodAxis	The Hangman & The Papist (traditional)
Cowboy Junkies	Me & The Devil Blues (Robert Johnson)
Pixies	(In Heaven...) The Lady In The Radiator (David Lynch & Angelo Badalamente)

Comment:

The title covers from an interview with Ice T, where he stated that Johnny Cash was the original gangsta. Songs like "Cocaine Blues" and "Folsom Prison" were full of the anger and misanthropy that modern rappers (and punkers) love as imagery. Most of these songs are based on the tradational murder ballad and the quest to redeem a tarnished soul, the rest are just hard luck stories or bad ass stories! I also tried to keep the music semi-acoustic (Pixies & Foetus are not, but don't interupt things too badly). I put the original artist in parentheses after the title (i am not 100% on some, so I listed who I've heard the earliest recording by - feel free to correct me. Apologies for the over-use of Nick Cave, he's just so versitile and loves to do covers. Buck Satan... is an Al Jourgensen fronted band, basicly Ministry with acoustic guitars and a banjo!
-- cheers!

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