For this playlist, I took nineteen timeless country songs and found fantastic cover versions, but done in a completely different genre. You get the songs of Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Charlie Daniels, Willie Nelson, Johnny Paycheck, Merle Haggard and more interpreted as reggae, rock, jazz, metal, soul, blues and even polka songs, providing more proof that a great song should not be bound to genre.
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Crossgenred Country Covers
- "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" - Al Green (originally by Hank Williams)
- "Always On My Mind" - Pet Shop Boys (originally by Willie Nelson)
- "Ring Of Fire" - Social Distortion (originally by Johnny Cash)
- "Crazy" - Hawks Arps Jazz Band (originally recorded by Patsy Cline, written by Willie Nelson)
- "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" - John Lee Hooker (originally by The Carter Family)
- "Delta Dawn" - Esquivel (originally by Tanya Tucker)
- "Devil Went Down To Georgia" - Jimmy Sturr (originally by Charlie Daniels)
- "Take Me Home Country Roads" - Toots and the Maytals (originally by John Denver)
- "I Walk The Line" - Los Lonely Boys (originally by Johnny Cash)
- "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" - Hjörtur (Traditional)
- "Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town" - Sixty Second Crush (originally recorded by Kenny Rogers, written by Mel Tillis)
- "King Of The Road" - Jimmy Smith (originally by Roger Miller)
- "Keep On The Sunny Side" - Popa Chubby (originally by The Carter Family)
- "Stand by Your Man" - Motorhead with Wendy O. Williams (originally by Tammy Wynette)
- "Mama Tried" - Grateful Dead (originally by Merle Haggard)
- "Coal Miner's Daughter" - Frank Bard (originally by Loretta Lynn)
- "Take This Job And Shove It" - Jeff Tweedy (originally by Johnny Paycheck)
- "Cold Cold Heart" - Norah Jones (originally by Hank Williams)
- "Wichita Lineman" - Kool & the Gang (originally recorded by Glen Campbell, written by Jimmy Webb)
Article comments
1 - Steve
I do have the Pet Shop Boys version of "Always On My Mind", which I love, though it has been overplayed over the years I think, and I do enjoy alot of their other output actually. However, out of over 12,000 songs in my music collection, less than a hundred or so could be called 'Country music'.
Although a few 'pop' artists in my collection have some country influences, e.g. Irishman Ronan Keating who has covered Garth Brooks among others, and Scottish group Texas, whose first album or two had a more country vein before they moved towards pop in recent years.
2 - metal dad
you forgot Johnny Cash's "Man in Black" covered by christian thrashers One Bad Pig