By deep I mean with the most obscure original. I am not talking ‘all along the watch tower’ but things like Fever Ray’s cover of Vashti Bunyan’s song Here before
Fever Ray is relatively well known while Bunyan had very limited success
SR-71 ended up being a one hit wonder band and the singer ended up being a songwriter and producer, so I could see the song getting shopped around for a second chance.
“House of the Rising Sun” has been covered numerous times. The most known version is from The Animals. I was today years old when I learned that this is the original version of the song. However, my personal favourite cover version is from BTO.
Another well-executed cover version is of the song “Johnny B. Goode”, covered by Peter Tosh, beause it is tranferred into a different music genre.
Well apparently people think Darius Rucker wrote the Old Crow Medicine Show song Rock Me Mama, and what’s more, OCMS in their turn credited it (in jest) to Bob Dylan.
Drives me crazy that people don’t know Stomp and Holler is a Hayes Carll song, and that Hallelujah is a Leonard Cohen song, and Downtown Train a Tom Waits song, too.
But I don’t know if any of these are as obscure as you are looking for. You are looking for songs even music people don’t think of as covers?
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