Artist	Song
Cream	Spoonful
from The Very Best of Cream (1995)
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Susie Q
from Chronicle: 20 Greatest Hits (2006)
The Doors	Back Door Man
from The Very Best of the Doors (Bonus Track Version) (2007)
Led Zeppelin	Bring It On Home
from Led Zeppelin II (Remastered) (1969)
The Allman Brothers Band	Trouble No More
from Stand Back: The Anthology (2004)
The Rolling Stones	Mona (I Need You Baby)
from The Rolling Stones, Now! (2005)
The Who	I'm a Man
from My Generation (Deluxe Edition) (2002)
Elvis Presley	Promised Land
from HitStory (Remastered) (2002)
Rod Stewart	I'd Rather Go Blind
from The Best of Rod Stewart, Vol. 2 (1998)
Foghat	I Just Want to Make Love to You
from Foghat (2005)
The Yardbirds	Smokestack Lightning
from Shapes of Things - The Very Best of the Yardbirds (2006)
Van Halen	Ice Cream Man
from Van Halen (2007)
Johnny Rivers	Memphis
from Johnny Rivers: Greatest Hits (1990)
Sam Cooke	Little Red Rooster
from Greatest Hits (1997)
Johnny Winter	Walking By Myself
from Scorchin' Blues (1992)
Janis Joplin	Tell Mama
from Pearl (1992)
Joss Stone	Dirty Man
from The Soul Sessions (2003)
Jeff Beck	You Shook Me
from Truth (Remastered) (2006)
Fleetwood Mac	Madison Blues
from Blues Jam In Chicago, Vol. 1 (2004)
The Band	Ain't Got No Home
from The Band: Greatest Hits (2000)
Elvis Costello	Eisenhower Blues
from King of America (2007)
Bill Haley & His Comets	See You Later, Alligator
from Rock Around the Clock (2004)
Electric Light Orchestra	Roll Over Beethoven
from Strange Magic - The Best of Electric Light Orchestra (1995)
The Beach Boys	Rock and Roll Music
from Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys (1993)
Buck Owens	Johnny B. Goode
from Buck Owens: 21 #1 Hits: The Ultimate Collection (2006)
George Jones	Maybellene
from The Essential George Jones - The Spirit of Country (1998)
Mose Allison	The Seventh Son
from The Prestige Collection: Mose Allison - Greatest Hits (2006)
The Blues Brothers	I Don't Know (Live)
from Briefcase Full of Blues (2005)
Buddy Holly	Bo Diddley
from For the First Time Anywhere (2007)
Diana Ross	Selfish One
from Diana Ross: Greatest Hits - The RCA Years (1997)
The Doobie Brothers	Don't Start Me to Talkin'
from Toulouse Street (2008)
Elvis Presley	Reconsider Baby
from The Essential Elvis Presley (Remastered) (2006)
MC5	Back In the USA
from Back In the USA (2005)
Steppenwolf	Forty Days and Forty Nights
from Steppenwolf 7 (2006)
The Shadows of Knight	You Can't Judge a Book
from Gloria (2005)
The Remains	My Babe
from The Remains (2007)
The Inmates	The Walk
from Dirty Water - The Very Best of The Inmates (2006)
Hindu Love Gods	Mannish Boy
from Hindu Love Gods (2008)
Ted Hawkins	Searching for My Love
from Songs from Venice Beach (1995)
Harry Nilsson	Trust In Me
from A Little Touch of Schmilsson In the Night (2006)
The Pointer Sisters	Wang Dang Doodle
from The Pointer Sisters: Yes We Can Can - The Best of the Blue Thumb Recordings (1997)
Marcia Ball	Soulful Dress
from Soulful Dress (1989)
Cream	Spoonful
from The Very Best of Cream (1995)
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Susie Q
from Chronicle: 20 Greatest Hits (2006)
The Doors	Back Door Man
from The Very Best of the Doors (Bonus Track Version) (2007)
Led Zeppelin	Bring It On Home
from Led Zeppelin II (Remastered) (1969)
The Allman Brothers Band	Trouble No More
from Stand Back: The Anthology (2004)
The Rolling Stones	Mona (I Need You Baby)
from The Rolling Stones, Now! (2005)
The Who	I'm a Man
from My Generation (Deluxe Edition) (2002)
Elvis Presley	Promised Land
from HitStory (Remastered) (2002)
Rod Stewart	I'd Rather Go Blind
from The Best of Rod Stewart, Vol. 2 (1998)
Foghat	I Just Want to Make Love to You
from Foghat (2005)
The Yardbirds	Smokestack Lightning
from Shapes of Things - The Very Best of the Yardbirds (2006)
Van Halen	Ice Cream Man
from Van Halen (2007)
Johnny Rivers	Memphis
from Johnny Rivers: Greatest Hits (1990)
Sam Cooke	Little Red Rooster
from Greatest Hits (1997)
Johnny Winter	Walking By Myself
from Scorchin' Blues (1992)
Janis Joplin	Tell Mama
from Pearl (1992)
Joss Stone	Dirty Man
from The Soul Sessions (2003)
Jeff Beck	You Shook Me
from Truth (Remastered) (2006)
Fleetwood Mac	Madison Blues
from Blues Jam In Chicago, Vol. 1 (2004)
The Band	Ain't Got No Home
from The Band: Greatest Hits (2000)
Elvis Costello	Eisenhower Blues
from King of America (2007)
Bill Haley & His Comets	See You Later, Alligator
from Rock Around the Clock (2004)
Electric Light Orchestra	Roll Over Beethoven
from Strange Magic - The Best of Electric Light Orchestra (1995)
The Beach Boys	Rock and Roll Music
from Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys (1993)
Buck Owens	Johnny B. Goode
from Buck Owens: 21 #1 Hits: The Ultimate Collection (2006)
George Jones	Maybellene
from The Essential George Jones - The Spirit of Country (1998)
Mose Allison	The Seventh Son
from The Prestige Collection: Mose Allison - Greatest Hits (2006)
The Blues Brothers	I Don't Know (Live)
from Briefcase Full of Blues (2005)
Buddy Holly	Bo Diddley
from For the First Time Anywhere (2007)
Diana Ross	Selfish One
from Diana Ross: Greatest Hits - The RCA Years (1997)
The Doobie Brothers	Don't Start Me to Talkin'
from Toulouse Street (2008)
Elvis Presley	Reconsider Baby
from The Essential Elvis Presley (Remastered) (2006)
MC5	Back In the USA
from Back In the USA (2005)
Steppenwolf	Forty Days and Forty Nights
from Steppenwolf 7 (2006)
The Shadows of Knight	You Can't Judge a Book
from Gloria (2005)
The Remains	My Babe
from The Remains (2007)
The Inmates	The Walk
from Dirty Water - The Very Best of The Inmates (2006)
Hindu Love Gods	Mannish Boy
from Hindu Love Gods (2008)
Ted Hawkins	Searching for My Love
from Songs from Venice Beach (1995)
Harry Nilsson	Trust In Me
from A Little Touch of Schmilsson In the Night (2006)
The Pointer Sisters	Wang Dang Doodle
from The Pointer Sisters: Yes We Can Can - The Best of the Blue Thumb Recordings (1997)
Marcia Ball	Soulful Dress
from Soulful Dress (1989)

Comment:

Consider this: even if you never heard the original "Hoochie Coochie Man" or "Bring It On Home" or "Roll Over Beethoven" — and you [i]should[/i] — you've absolutely heard one of the hundreds (if not thousands) of covers that Chess' greatest artists inspired [i]your[/i] favorite artists to record. Who woulda thunk a skinny, white British kid would pretty much invent the supergroup, the power trio, [i]and[/i] the jam band, all while playing a guitar that sounded like it was strung with Robert Johnson's guts? Eric Clapton was only 21 when Cream psychedelicized Willie Dixon's "Spoonful," stretching it like taffy into a barbiturated jam that redefines [i]heavy[/i]. At 16 — going on 42 — Joss Stone wrung every last teardrop of bitterness from Laura Lee's "Dirty Man," tearing into it with the bloodied-but-not-broken pride of a woman two-timed one too many times. And George Thorogood & The Destroyers stomp their steel-toed boots all over Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love?," locked into a voodoo groove rough as three-day growth. But don't stop there — from Led Zeppelin to Elvis Presley, from George Jones to Jimi Hendrix, we've got a game board full of Chess' greatest songs, reinterpreted by three generations of musical grandmasters.

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