Artist	Song
Elvis Presley	I Got a Woman
from Elvis Presley (Remastered) (2005)
Aretha Franklin	Night Time Is the Right Time
from Soul Queen (2007)
Michael Bublé	You Don't Know Me
from It's Time (Bonus Track Version) (2006)
Jerry Lee Lewis	What'd I Say
from Jerry Lee's Greatest (1961)
Natalie Cole	Busted
from Still Unforgettable (Deluxe Edition) (2008)
Martina McBride	I Can't Stop Loving You
from Timeless (2005)
Nancy Wilson	Unchain My Heart
from Today, Tomorrow, Forever (2000)
Etta James	Drown In My Own Tears
from Gospel Blues (2008)
Eva Cassidy	Hallelujah I Love Him So
from American Tune (2009)
Chris Connor	Come Rain or Come Shine
from Witchcraft (2005)
Barbara Dane	Come Back, Baby
from Barbara Dane Sings the Blues (1964)
Ronnie Milsap	Just for a Thrill
from Just for a Thrill (2004)
Joe Cocker	Let's Go Get Stoned
from Mad Dogs & Englishmen (Live 1970 Fillmore East) [Deluxe Edition] (2005)
The Easybeats	Hit the Road Jack
from Vigil (2004)
Willie Nelson	Georgia On My Mind
from Willie Nelson: Super Hits (1994)
LeAnn Rimes	Born to Lose
from Leann Rimes (1999)
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels	Sticks and Stones
from The Best of Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels (2005)
Stevie Wonder	A Fool for You
from The Complete Stevie Wonder (2005)
Carly Simon	You Are My Sunshine
from Into White (2007)
The Everly Brothers	This Little Girl of Mine
from The Everly Brothers' Best (2007)

Comment:

Trying merely to cover one of Ray's songs is just plain pointless: the man's style was as distinctive as a fingerprint. So if you're gonna step to the mic, don't imitate, [i]innovate[/i]. And that's just what folks have done — and keep doing — for more than half-a-century now. Even before Elvis Presley became the swivel-hipped teen idol who revolutionized pop culture, he raved up Ray's "I Got A Woman" in a primordial rockabilly romp. Joe Cocker (and two dozen or so "Mad Dogs and Englishmen") howl and smolder through "Let's Go Get Stoned (Live)," sloppy as a big, wet, drunken kiss . . . and nearly as much fun. A flat-broke Natalie Cole is flat-out brilliant, going saucy instead of sad sack, in her defiant take on "Busted." And the late Eva Cassidy shimmies her way around a slinky jazzification of "Hallelujah I Love Him So," cool as a pitcher of mint juleps. But don't stop there — from Stevie Wonder to Carly Simon, from Etta James to Michael Bublé, artists of every shape, size, and sound turn to Ray for Brotherly inspiration.

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