Santana - Black Magic Woman.
It goes way beyond being just a cover version of Peter Green’s song. Basically Santana owes to whole career to this. While other cover versions are great, none have had the effect on their career like this has. Amazingly, a lot of people still think that Santana wrote it.
Santana with India.Arie and Yo-Yo Mar
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Cheesy video but fabulous version.
Better than the original I think!
Ha Ha Ha…What next, Axl does oompah?
A few of my favourites have already been mentioned including This Mortal Coil ‘Song To The Siren’ and Jeff Buckley ‘Hallelujah’.
There’s a few by Johnny Cash, obviously ‘Hurt’ but another one which gets me every time is The Beatles ‘In My Life’.
I’ll leave you with one which hasn’t been mentioned yet…
I’ve got to the end of this thread and no mention of the Unthanks’ version of the King Crimson classic Starless. Easy to find on U-tube or Tidal. Best cover of any track? Probably not but an interesting take on that one.
Christine Perfect (McVie) singing I would rather go Blind with Chicken Shack. Beats Etta James’s version in my humble opinion hands down. Brings shivers to my spine every time I listen to it. The first time I heard it I was 14 and its impact on me has never gone away.
Monks of Doom - singing Syd Barrett’s Let’s Split
Power Station - Get It On.
Link Wray - Please Please Me.
still mesmerised by this
I didn’t want to link back to a YouTube vid. If you’re interested go to Amazon live and listen. This is a rendition of a Janis Joplin song call Take a Little Piece of My Heart recorded live in 2008 at Woodstock by Phoebe Snow. The album is titled Phoebe Snow live.
June Tabor and Oysterband - Love Will Tear Us Apart from their CD ragged kingdom.
I have three versions of “Woodstock” and I like them all.
Two of “Wooden Ships”…ditto.
Gold star if you can name the artists 
Matthews Southern Comfort, CSN and Joni? Or did you mean 3 covers?
Wooden Ships - CSN and Airplane? Or again do I need another?
Got ‘em in one! Gold star!
(We must be two aging hippies…LOL)
Although, for Woodstock it seems that the list of covers is very very very long! Including one by the ever great Richard Thompson, which I must look up
Surely not!
I don’t know the RT version of Woodstock, I see it’s from a Joni tribute show, time to go looking.
I agree with your opinion on Cowboy Junkies cover of Powderfinger, and ‘The Caution Horses’ is an album that I go back to again and again. I picked up the LP nearly 30 years ago and played it so often that I had to replace it with a CD. I never tire of it, wonderful late night listening.
Dave Mathews Band with Warren Haynes covering Neil Young’s Cortez the Killer, live in Central Park.
Heart covering Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven, at the Kennedy Center; watching Page, and Plant tearing up at Nancy Wilson’s vocals, along with Barack Obama grooving to the tune.
Gov’t Mule at the Beacon Theater covering Traffic’s Low Spark of High Heeled Boys. Wasted 
The enigmatic Galactic Symposium, and their version of the Floyd’s “Money”:
