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.

1. Townes Van Zandt – “Dead Flowers” (The Rolling Stones)
2. Sublime – “Marley Medley (Guava Jelly/This Train)” (Bob Marley)
3. Al Green – “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (The Beatles)
4. The Grateful Dead – “Wake Up Little Susie” [Live] (The Everly Brothers)
5. Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen – “Friend of the Devil” (The Grateful Dead)
6. Gillian Welch – “Hickory Wind” (The Byrds/Gram Parsons)
7. The Flying Burrito Brothers – “Wild Horses” (The Rolling Stones)
8. Ryan Adams – “Wonderwall” (Oasis)
9. Johnny Cash – “Rowboat” (Beck)
10. Ray Charles – “Ring of Fire” (Johnny Cash)
11. Jenny Lewis – “Handle with Care” [f. Conor Oberst, M. Ward & Ben Gibbard] (The Traveling Wilburys)
12. Hamell on Trial – “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” (Bob Dylan)
13. Aretha Franklin – “Let it Be” (The Beatles)
14. Medeski, Martin & Wood – “Bemsha Swing / Lively Up Yourself” (Thelonius Monk / Bob Marley)
15. Charlie Hunter – “No Woman, No Cry” (Bob Marley)
16. Clem Snide – “Beautiful” (Christina Aguilera)
17. Stevie Ray Vaughan – “Little Wing” (Jimi Hendrix)