Legendary blues guitarist offers his take on tracks by his favorite artists!

Downtown Does The Beatles: Live At The Knitting Factory is a 1992 live album of various New York City-based artists covering the music of pop band The Beatles. This was released by Knitting Factory Works because in New York City, the Knitting Factory works!

Blues Hall of Fame inductee Walter Davis was a prolific and innovative artist who played an influential role in the creation of the pre-war Blues scene. On The Walter Davis Project a diverse collection of Blues Legends pay tribute to the man and his music, including Billy Boy Arnold, Jimmy McCracklin, Charlie Musselwhite, Christian Rannenberg and Keith Dunn, and Henry Townsend with Bob Corritore. The 17 track collection of Walter Davis' compositions include R&B Legend Jimmy McCracklin's final recordings as well as an interview with Mr. McCracklin, who was taught piano as a child by Walter Davis, by producer Christian Rannenberg, plus 2 tracks from Charlie Musselwhite and an unreleased track from 2002 by Henry Townsend with Living Blues Award winner Bob Corritore. 2012 Blues Hall of Fame member Billy Boy Arnold contributes 9 tracks. The Walter Davis Project album will be treasured by both Blues music lovers and collectors. "To me, Walter Davis's singing, piano playing and lyrics are really deep blues…about as deep as you can get. His lyrics are true blues poetry. His sound has such a deep deep feeling to it. It does what only deep blues can do: it touches your heart and comforts you in a poignant way." – Charlie Musselwhite

Among musicians, Arthur Alexander was always considered one of the greatest R&B songwriters. Both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones covered his songs, "Anna (Go to Him)" and "You Better Move On," respectively, early in their careers. But they weren't the only ones – throughout the years, his work was rich source material for many blues, soul, rock, and country artists. He may have earned the recognition of his peers, but he remained relatively unknown to the general public, right up to his death in 1993. In order to raise his profile, Razor & Tie released Adios Amigo: A Tribute to Arthur Alexander in 1994, assembling a stellar and diverse lineup to record new versions of his songs. The diversity and the fresh arrangements illustrates the depth of Alexander's songs and how well they lent themselves to new readings. Like any tribute album, Adios Amigo is uneven, with a few tracks falling flat, but the best moments – Elvis Costello's "Sally Sue Brown," Robert Plant's "If It's Really Got to Be This Way," Chuck Jackson's "You Better Move On," Frank Black's "Old John Amos," John Prine's "Lonely Just Like Me," Gary U.S. Bonds' "Genie in the Jug," Graham Parker's "Every Day I Have to Cry" and Nick Lowe's "In the Middle of It All" – are affectionate salutes to a departed master, and they're damn enjoyable in their own right as well.

Getz/Gilberto +50 is a 2013 Japanese 50th anniversary tribute album to Stan Getz & João Gilberto's 1964 collaboration effort, performed by some of Japan's finest jazz vocalists, while Ryuichi Sakamoto sits in on a few songs. Most of it is performed exactly like the originals while Julia Oki takes "The Girl From Ipanema" and does it in Japanese. The entire CD was produced by Goro Ito (伊藤ゴロー). This was released by Verve/Universal Classics & Jazz Japan.

Jazz Tribute To Deep Purple is a 1995 CD by the Air Jazz Quartet. It features covers of different songs throughout Deep Purple's career. This was released by Air Transe Music.

An All Star Tribute To Pink Floyd: Goodbye Blue Sky - The Everlasting Songs Vol. 2 is the second of two Pink Floyd tribute discs created by Collectors Dream. They are perfect together but can be listened to individually as friends.

Spin The Bottle is an all-star tribute to Kiss, so says tht subtitle of this disc. It's a number of hard rock and heavy metal rockers covering the music of the hottest band in the land. This was released by Mirror Nouveau via Koch.

Lana Lane's second cover collection album is quite different from the first. While Covers Collection (2002) had several tracks that were not classics and some bands quite obscure, this time she decided to focused almost entirely on classic stuff. The only real surprise is the two Foreigner tracks included here: the hard rocking Long Way From Home and the more progressive Starrider (both from their self titled debut of 1977, the latter certainly one of their best). The remaining tracks were from more obvious choices like Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Heart, Cream and The Jefferson Airplane…

A powerful modern tribute to the famous Nubian composer and oud legend Hamza El Din by Bachar Mar-Khalifé, this album centers around the formers Escalay / The Water Wheel.

he biggest female vocalists of today including Fiona Apple, Patty Griffith and Nikka Costa, come together to pay tribute to the legendary, Cy Coleman. Cy Coleman's work encompasses countless Broadway hits as well as standards performed by iconic artists such as Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Lucille Ball and Tony Bennett. A career spanning well over four decades, Cy Coleman left us with an extensive collection of truly timeless hits. The album peaked at number 32 of Billboard's Jazz Albums chart.

Long known for her seductively haunting voice, Folk Singer/Songwriter, Meiko, is releasing Playing Favorites, her first covers album on May 25th via Chesky Records. Featuring songs made immortal by luminaries The Cranberries, Otis Redding, Erykah Badu, Duran Duran, Blind Melon, and even Rick James, among many others, Meiko leaves her own indelible mark on these songs and will have you hearing them as if it were the first time.

30 tracks from international psychobilly bands covering the songs of Russia's Meantraitors. Featured bands include The Magnetix, The Stockmen, Stressor, The Beat Devils, The Hellstompers, Evil Jokers, Mental Bait, The Grims, The Spoilers, The Chainsaw Charlies, Mosquito, The Squidbillys, Dice For Lights and many others.

Megaded: A Tribute To Megadeth is a 1999 compilation that is a Megadeth tribute album. This was released by Dwell Records, a label known for their metal tribute disc and this is one of them.

The Classics presents a nice and quaint collection of music from the 1950's called 50's Oldies But Goodies. All of these are well known songs, a few of which have become standards but all are cover versions so it's a chance to hear new renditions of personal favorites.