Artist	Song
Love	Hey Joe
from Love (Bonus Tracks) (2007)
Howlin' Wolf	Killing Floor
from His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection) (1997)
Bob Dylan	Like a Rolling Stone
from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (1983)
B.B. King	Rock Me Baby
from Blues On Blues (2006)
The Troggs	Wild Thing
from The Best of The Troggs (1994)
Bob Dylan	Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
from Biograph (1997)
Muddy Waters	(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
from Muddy Waters the Anthology: 1947-1972 (2001)
Big Mama Thornton	Hound Dog
from Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings (1992)
Stevie Wonder	I Was Made to Love Her
from Number 1's (2007)
Them	Gloria
from Still On Top - The Greatest Hits (2007)
Bob Dylan	All Along the Watchtower
from The Best of Bob Dylan (2005)
Earl King	Come On (Parts I and II)
from Come On: The Complete Imperial Recordings (2003)
Elmore James	My Bleeding Heart
from Shake Your Money Maker: The Best of the Fire Sessions (2007)
Bob Dylan	Drifter's Escape
from John Wesley Harding (2004)
Cream	Sunshine of Your Love
from The Very Best of Cream (1995)
Albert King	Born Under a Bad Sign
from The Very Best of Albert King (2007)
Muddy Waters	Mannish Boy
from Muddy Waters the Anthology: 1947-1972 (2001)
Chuck Berry	Johnny B. Goode
from The Definitive Collection (2006)
Carl Perkins	Blue Suede Shoes
from The Dance Album (1957)
US Air Force Academy Band	Star Spangled Banner
from The Big Blue Ball (2006)

Comment:

Sure, Jimi Hendrix was one of the best songwriters of his generation, but he also reached out to his peers for their best work . . . and rewrote [i]that[/i] as well. "Hey Joe," a high-tension dialogue between a murderous husband on the lam and his bestest pal, has a mystifying history — several writers claim it, and it was recorded half-a-dozen times before Jimi made it his own — but Love's Arthur Lee says his Benzedrine-riddled version inspired Hendrix, and that's good enough for us. Bob Dylan's harmonica wails a soul-baring whine over the freight-train throb of "All Along the Watchtower," but Dylan liked Hendrix's revamp so much he calls [i]it[/i] the definitive version, and to back it up, he changed the way he plays it in concert, reflecting Jimi's influence. And the Troggs took "Wild Thing," a three-chord caveman stomp written by Angelina Jolie's uncle, to #1 on both sides of the Atlantic, in the process making it the only British Invasion-era chart-topper to feature an [i]ocarina[/i] solo. But don't stop there — from Chuck Berry to Cream, we've got all the songs that Hendrix noised up, rocked out, and psychedelicized into immortality.

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