Artist	Song
Bob Dylan	All Along the Watchtower
from The Best of Bob Dylan (2005)
Lefty Frizzell	The Long Black Veil
from Look What Thoughts Will Do (1997)
Daniel Lanois	The Maker
from Acadie (Goldtop Edition) (2008)
Neil Young	Cortez the Killer
from Zuma (2007)
The Zombies	Time of the Season
from Odessey and Oracle (2007)
Daniel Lanois	Still Water
from Acadie (Goldtop Edition) (2008)
Woody Guthrie	This Land Is Your Land
from This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1 (1997)
Neil Young	Down By the River
from Neil Young: Greatest Hits (2004)
The Allman Brothers Band	Melissa
from A Decade of Hits 1969-1979 (1991)
Peter Gabriel	Sledgehammer
from So (Remastered) (1986)
Sly & the Family Stone	Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
from Greatest Hits (2007)
Neil Diamond	Sweet Caroline
from The Neil Diamond Collection (1999)
Richard Berry & The Pharaohs	Louie Louie
from Have "Louie" Will Travel (2004)
Neil Young	Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)
from Neil Young: Greatest Hits (2004)
Rick James	Super Freak
from The Ultimate Collection (1997)

Comment:

It's difficult, if not impossible, to make these stone-cold classics any better, but, somehow, the Dave Matthews Band has made them [i]their own[/i]. Which is all the more [i]insane [/i]when you consider all the artists who have covered Bob Dylan's two-and-a-half-minute slice of apocalyptic prophesy, "All Along the Watchtower" (among them Hendrix, U2, Neil Young, Prince, Pearl Jam, and the Grateful Dead). And yet, the undeniable, almost spooky power of Dylan's original summons us back again and again. Occasional Dylan collaborator Daniel Lanois reveals roots as thick and tangled as a mangrove swamp in [i]Acadie[/i]'s hymnlike psalm of soul-baring confession, "The Maker." On the sunnier side, Sly & The Family Stone wah-wah their way into a little hot fun in the summertime with their chart-topping chunk of '70s funk, "Thank You (Falletin Me Be Mice Elf Agin)." And Neil Young's nine-minute epic display of ragged glory, "Down By the River," might as well be subtitled "the jam band's best friend." From Neil Diamond to the Zombies, the Dave Matthews Band has cherry-picked from pop music's greatest writers, and you can hear them — just like [i]they[/i] did — right here.

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