Artist	Song
Johnny Cash	Heart of Gold
from Unearthed (2010)
Waylon Jennings	Are You Ready for the Country
from Are You Ready for the Country (2004)
Nicolette Larson	Lotta Love
from Nicolette (2008)
Linda Ronstadt	Love Is a Rose
from Prisoner In Disguise (2009)
David Bowie	I've Been Waiting for You
from Heathen (2002)
Oasis	Hey Hey, My My (Live At Wembley Stadium, 2000)
from Familiar to Millions (2008)
Pretenders	The Needle and the Damage Done
from Pirate Radio (Digital Version) (2006)
Annie Lennox	Don't Let It Bring You Down
from Medusa (1994)
Crazy Horse	Dance, Dance, Dance
from Crazy Horse (2009)
Pixies	Winterlong
from Wave of Mutilation - Best of Pixies (2004)
The Byrds	Cowgirl In the Sand
from The Byrds (2005)
Stephen Stills	The Loner
from Illegal Stills (1990)
Carpenters	Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing
from Ticket to Ride (1998)
Dave Matthews Band	Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) [Live]
from DMB Live Trax, Vol. 13 (2008)
k.d. lang	Helpless
from Hymns of the 49th Parallel (2004)
Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt & Dolly Parton	After the Gold Rush
from Trio II (2006)
Matthew Sweet	Cortez the Killer
from Girlfriend (2006)
Pearl Jam	Rockin' In the Free World
from Live At Lollapalooza 2007: Pearl Jam (2007)
Rush	Mr. Soul
from Feedback (2004)
Phish	Albuquerque
from LivePhish, Vol. 3 9/14/00 (Darien Lake Peforming Arts Center, Darien Center, NY) (2009)
Nils Lofgren	Don't Cry No Tears
from The Loner - Nils Sings Neil (2009)
Jeff Healey	Like a Hurricane
from Mess of Blues (2008)
Gillian Welch	Pocahontas
from Black Star - EP (2006)
Cowboy Junkies	Powderfinger
from Platinum & Gold Collection: Cowboy Junkies (2003)
Cassandra Wilson	Harvest Moon
from New Moon Daughter (1996)
Lizz Wright	Old Man
from Dreaming Wide Awake (2005)
Meat Puppets	I Am a Child
from Meat Puppets (2011)
Constantines	Fuckin' Up
from Our Age - Single (2008)
The Dream Syndicate	Cinnamon Girl
from Out Of The Grey (deluxe edition) (2006)
Susanna Hoffs, Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs	On the Way Home
from Shout! Shuffle, Vol. 2 (2008)
Saint Etienne	Only Love Can Break Your Heart
from Foxbase Alpha (2006)
Veruca Salt	Burned
from Cinnamon Girl - Women Artists Cover Neil Young for Charity (2008)
The Meters	Down By the River
from Kickback (2005)
Dump Truck	Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
from Lemmings Travel to the Sea (2001)
The Be Good Tanyas	For the Turnstiles
from Hello Love (2010)
The Grip Weeds	Down to the Wire
from The Sound Is In You (2003)
Linda Ronstadt	Birds
from Linda Ronstadt (1995)
Ben Taylor	Ohio
from Song of America (2007)
Mosquitos	Um Homem Precisa de Uma Empregada (A Man Needs a Maid)
from Mosquitos III (2008)
Thea Gilmore	The Old Laughing Lady
from Loft Music (2005)
The Wailin' Jennys	Old Man
from 40 Days (2004)
Fury In the Slaughterhouse	Out On the Weekend
from Brilliant Thieves (2006)
John Boutte	Southern Man
from Good Neighbor (2008)
Micky Dolenz	Sugar Mountain
from Micky Dolenz Puts You to Sleep (2008)
Meat Puppets	The Losing End
from Keats Rides a Harley (Remastered) (2005)

Comment:

Forget about Neil's performing career for just a moment; even if he never picked up a guitar, he'd [i]still[/i] be in the Hall of Fame. Want proof? Just check out the seemingly endless list — and astonishing variety — of artists who've tried their hand at a Neil Young classic. Fellow Canadians the Cowboy Junkies defuse the double-barreled explosion of Young's "Powderfinger" and spin it out, instead, like a late-night [i]canción[/i] from a Ciudad Juarez cantina. The Carpenters pry all the irony out of "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" and gloss it up with a spun-sugar sheen of stunning vocal aerobatics. And speaking of gorgeous harmonies, you can't imagine a more angelic trio than Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, and Dolly Parton merging their voices for an almost hymn-like take on "After the Gold Rush." Finally, the adolescent crinkliness of Frank Black's vocal smacks headlong into the alt-grunge growl of Joey Santiago's ragged-but-right guitar in the Pixies' affectionate cover of "Winterlong." But don't stop there — from David Bowie to Dave Matthews, from Rush to Oasis, artists of every shape, size, and sound turn toward Toronto's favorite rockin' son for inspiration.

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