Here’s one for the weekend. Everyone loves a good mixtape, and everyone loves a good cover song, so here’s a mix I made of some of my favorite cover tunes.

The mix spans a good deal of genres (R&B, country, reggae, folk, bluegrass) and artists - from relative unknowns (Clem Snide) to legends (Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Townes van Zandt).

It zig-zags a little, from an acoustic Sublime cover of Marley, to Reverend Al covering the Fab Four (worth it just to hear a band member yell “Shut up, Al Green” in the beginning) and breaks quite a few of my rules for making mixes along the way.

This is definitely a mix, so feel free to download everything and listen to it as such, or just pick and choose. Enjoy. (more…)