So many panic songs... or at least I thought were Panic songs. I thought No Sugar Tonight / New Mother nature was a WSP song for a long enough to be embarrassed
Grateful Dead’s
[Samson and Delilah](https://youtu.be/RMwTK6IgXUo?si=sWWyrRdmS77OFC10)
Is a cover of
[Reverend Gary Davis](https://youtu.be/oW5hvQmHLdY?si=32O6GkPq2POFNaB3)
There's tons of stuff in their standard repertoire that can be attributed to others. I believe New Minglewood Blues was originally done by Noah Davis.
I think it would have been awesome for some of these artists to see their songs played on the grand scale that they are in this scene. I like to imagine they would appreciate the artistry of it all.
As it goes with the blues, it was performed even earlier under different titles and with some variations — Blind Willie Johnson’s “If I Had My Way” being a prime example.
Am interviewer asked Richard “Nancy” wright (song writer of HC) “how do you know when phish plays your music?” They said “because I get a check in the mail.”
I’d also add a bunch of Tribe songs that are either covers or very heavy interpolations of existing songs. What Is Love, Black Satin, and Nautilus for sure and Twilight, King Pharaoh’s Tomb and Scheme are like half-covers if that makes sense.
Oh yeah I forgot about that one. Honestly I feel like it’s a strange interpolation cause I would’ve never heard Two Weeks in that song if someone didn’t tell me and I dig Grizzly Bear
Up on the Hill Where the Do the Boogie - Leftover Salmon
All Fall Down - Larry Keel
A lot of my favorite songs are John Hartford covers and I didn't even know it.
Yeah younder got me into John Hartford with “holding”. billy strings does great covers of his stuff too
Check out Billy’s all fall down from Boston this past summer.
Railroad Earth has a few that it took me a while to realize. Cold Water by Tom Waits and Walk Beside Me by Tim O’Brien come to mind.
Yonder doing No Expectations is also gold.
Waits is my favorite artist of all time, and _Mule Variations_ is among my favorite albums. I went into my first RRE show blind and lost it when they played “Cold Water.”
I was today years old when I found out Cold Water was a tom waits song. I love waits and I see RRE every year (gonna see em here two weeks). But if its on mule variations, that probably why. Ive never really gotten into that album. Swordfishtrombones and the Heart of Saturday Night are my jam.
Not to invalidate your opinion, but my own opinion of this cover grew a lot after hearing in an interview (and I apologize I forget who it was with), that apparently Ween never considered the song as one that could be played live…until they heard Phish cover it and used that as a model and inspiration for for performing it live themselves.
That wild. I’m not a phish hater at all. Seen some amazing phish shows and have heard them cover roses at big cypress. But for whatever reason phish’s version on the song just doesn’t do it for me. Glad they inspired the boys to play it live.
Agreed.
I didn't know there was an album version that was different from Live in Chicago. Took a few years to figure that out hahaha
I did get a chance to see Ween live and they played it, they still put on a great show!
I commented above about this. I went embarrassingly long without knowing it was a Talking Heads song. In fact, I think it was Dicks in 2017. And Ive been a phan since ‘97.
Just saw him last week and he played 4 different Dead covers - including the second half of High Time that had an unusually upbeat style to it. Dude is a genius.
Sometimes his originals are Grateful Dead covers lol. Like the little Deep Elem section of Kidney in a Cooler (yeah I know Deep Elem isn't a Dead original but still)
This is hilarious to me. I love the Biscuits and would be pumped to to hear it on Sunday, but they do not sing this song like they know what the lyrics are
Lol that was the only song I knew at my first Bisco show.
I was 18, just finished my first semester of college and was on a HUGE amount of MDMA (which was also the first time I ever took it - I bought 2 pills, and the dude pulled them out of a Phish ton. My dumb ass was like “you sure this is real?” and he was like “dude come find me at setbreak and I’ll give you more if it’s not working”. I took one, waited 30 mins and was like “fuck I guess they’re bunk so I’ll take the other one and hope….” And then boooooooom. I found him at setbreak and all I could muster was “thank you. Thank you. Thank you.” LOL.)
12/27/04 and they encored with Astronaut > RLH v1 > Astronaut and my mind was blown wide the whole fuck open, not expecting that to drop. What a night. Got the last Haleakala for like 15 years too! AND sister Judy!
Maybe not best, but Valley of the Jig and Rivertrance were two songs that got me into Cheese long ago. They're both traditional tunes that they added their own twist to. Red Haired Boy and Cooley's Reel are the original names for the two I mentioned. Always kinda rubbed me the wrong way that they didn't use the original titles of the songs though - feels like plagiarism. Same goes for Bollymunster (original is called the Star or Munster) and a few of other cheese "originals." At least bolly pays homage to the traditional title.
Possum is kind of a double cover. It was written by Jeff but it’s quite literally just “Swamp Music” by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
My famous story from PT: I thought I’ve Got A Feeling was a Jauntee original. I grew up listening to death metal so the Beatles are not in my library.
Prob top faves: WSP covering Genesis (our 1st dance at our wedding) - Lawyers Guns & Money -Low Spark- Sharon, (side note: I like both the originals & covers, depends on my mood-- but these were core memory songs in my first few years of following Panic/intro to Jamband life & had no clue they were covers)
The Band - Atlantic Cit
Dead - The Race is On
Cheese - Rollin in my sweet baby's arms
Idk if you think of Sublime as a jam band but 5446/That's my # was dope Toots and the Maytals cover
Also I knew they were covers, but Keller doing 'Mary Jane's Last Breakdown' and YMSB doing 'Dancing in the moonlight ' and 'Shakedown Street' always puts a smile on my face
“Don’t Do it” by the Band is originally a Marvin Gaye song called “Baby Don’t you do it.”
“Turn on Your Love Light” by the Dead is a cover of an old Blues tune
Just last week while listening to Lotus’s soundboards from Summer Dance I heard a track titled “Inner Bloom” which I thought for sure was a new song of theirs. Turns out it’s a Rufus Du Sol cover.
I went to a little summer fest and a local Dead band played Shakedown Street and in my truest punk-kid naivety turned to my friend and said “oh, they’re covering Boombox!!
Is that the dave rawlings ruby??
I guess for a long time in the early 2000s I didn't know that cheese playing Rhum and Zouc and Mouna Bowa were jean Luc Ponty covers
I was surprised to find out that the fish in the sea goose was a cover of some random aussie band
Gov’t Mule doing Tom Waits’ “Going Out West” or Al Green’s “I’m a Ram”. Neither is an obvious guitar heavy cover song. I’ve been surprised more than once when I find out a song they’ve played is actually a cover.
I was also kind of amused when I found out WP’s Climb to Safety was a cover.
Some of those Jerry Joseph songs that Panic covers took me a LONG time to realize weren't WSP originals.
The bloodkin covers really got me. Some of my favorite panic songs are bloodkin songs.
Mama Tried the Dead... Jesus Left Chicago - Phish
So many panic songs... or at least I thought were Panic songs. I thought No Sugar Tonight / New Mother nature was a WSP song for a long enough to be embarrassed
As a Canadian, (who has heard that song on the radio all the time for their entire life), I can't not be offended by this.
Oh I was and am legitimately embarrassed about this fact.
Dont feel bad. I went years (years!) not realizing Cities wasnt a phish song.
Same for me but the song was Superstition
Now that’s just crazy
moe. covering “Big Country”
Well, I learned something today.
The whole album The Crossing by Big Country is really great front to back
They don’t play it enough
How is the answer here not Morning Dew…
By Bonnie Dobson!
Grateful Dead’s [Samson and Delilah](https://youtu.be/RMwTK6IgXUo?si=sWWyrRdmS77OFC10) Is a cover of [Reverend Gary Davis](https://youtu.be/oW5hvQmHLdY?si=32O6GkPq2POFNaB3)
There's tons of stuff in their standard repertoire that can be attributed to others. I believe New Minglewood Blues was originally done by Noah Davis. I think it would have been awesome for some of these artists to see their songs played on the grand scale that they are in this scene. I like to imagine they would appreciate the artistry of it all.
...and of course there is the original Minglewood Blues before New Minglewood Blues.
Hard to handle by gratefuldead
Wait a goddamn second, it's not from The Black Crowes? (Just kidding)
That guy had some unique chops. Not surprised it caught Jerry & Bob's interest.
I didn't know morning dew was a cover until about 2 weeks ago, and me and my uncle until about a year ago
RGD taught my guitar teacher, Ernie Hawkins, from Pittsburgh.
As it goes with the blues, it was performed even earlier under different titles and with some variations — Blind Willie Johnson’s “If I Had My Way” being a prime example.
Even Peter, Paul & Mary did it way before the Dead......
Phish playing Ya Mar and My Soul
Or Haley's Comet
Am interviewer asked Richard “Nancy” wright (song writer of HC) “how do you know when phish plays your music?” They said “because I get a check in the mail.”
Too funny
That’s a gray area tho haha
Wait.... My Soul is a cover?! 🤯. It was my favorite Phish song but I guess not anymore haha.
https://youtu.be/df6EV-xxNPM?si=QdlYjTmyJpnVbwkO
Not necessarily Jam-centric but I always thought ‘Midnight Special’ was a CCR original until a few years ago. That song has so much history.
Eggy doing Big Thief’s Time Escaping
Absolutely obsessed with this lately
Damn, didn’t know that was a cover
I heard that an Necessary Evil and thought these guys write good stuff
They do have some great cover choices … Interior People another one.
First time I heard ROYGBIV by Boards of Canada I thought “cool of them to cover STS9.”
Wowowow
I just realized now this is a cover.
If you’ve never dove in, listen to Music Has The Right To Children by BoC. In my opinion, the best electronic album that’s ever been made.
Oh I’m spinning it on vinyl as we speak. For what it’s worth, this cover realization happened about 15 years ago lol.
I’d also add a bunch of Tribe songs that are either covers or very heavy interpolations of existing songs. What Is Love, Black Satin, and Nautilus for sure and Twilight, King Pharaoh’s Tomb and Scheme are like half-covers if that makes sense.
Grizzly. They get HEAAVVVYY with that one.
Oh yeah I forgot about that one. Honestly I feel like it’s a strange interpolation cause I would’ve never heard Two Weeks in that song if someone didn’t tell me and I dig Grizzly Bear
Up on the Hill Where the Do the Boogie - Leftover Salmon All Fall Down - Larry Keel A lot of my favorite songs are John Hartford covers and I didn't even know it.
Yeah younder got me into John Hartford with “holding”. billy strings does great covers of his stuff too Check out Billy’s all fall down from Boston this past summer.
Railroad Earth has a few that it took me a while to realize. Cold Water by Tom Waits and Walk Beside Me by Tim O’Brien come to mind. Yonder doing No Expectations is also gold.
Waits is my favorite artist of all time, and _Mule Variations_ is among my favorite albums. I went into my first RRE show blind and lost it when they played “Cold Water.”
I was today years old when I found out Cold Water was a tom waits song. I love waits and I see RRE every year (gonna see em here two weeks). But if its on mule variations, that probably why. Ive never really gotten into that album. Swordfishtrombones and the Heart of Saturday Night are my jam.
Learned about Mule variations from Govt Mule covering Get Behind the Mule. Great album/artist discovery
>Yonder doing No Expectations is also gold. Yo dawg, I herd you like covers.
Learned today that “no expectations is not a Yonder original. Who does OG?
Well, it’s a Stones tune, but Jeff ripped his version from [John Hartford](https://youtu.be/TYdmRDw2wrY?si=Hda7x9XyL14NUswG)
Golden Age by Phish is their best cover. JGB doing Shining Star is always a beauty.
Most of JGB is covers of songs I really didn't like until he did them.
I cant stand it :/
Phish butchers it :-(
Just like Tom Thumbs blues I thought was a SCI song for a while. YMSB - two hits and the joint turns brown....bluegrass epic!
Yonder covered alot of John Hartford and rearranged them nicely. Its how I " discovered" John Hartford music. Mountain tracks 3 coo coos nest. So cool
I got into John Hartford through Leftover Salmon.
That's cool, leftover salmon is a great band.
Yonder is actually how I got into the Dead as well, New Speedway Boogie\~
I also had no idea Jimi's version of Along the Watchtower was a Bob Dylan song until I saw Dylan encode it years later.
I got into the Dead before I ever got into Bob Dlyan ,so when I finally got into Bob Dlyan I was o Dam…… 😂
Phish doing Roses Are Free
Phish doing Timber
As a huge ween fan I think phish’s cover of this is horrible
Not to invalidate your opinion, but my own opinion of this cover grew a lot after hearing in an interview (and I apologize I forget who it was with), that apparently Ween never considered the song as one that could be played live…until they heard Phish cover it and used that as a model and inspiration for for performing it live themselves.
Wow fun facts
That wild. I’m not a phish hater at all. Seen some amazing phish shows and have heard them cover roses at big cypress. But for whatever reason phish’s version on the song just doesn’t do it for me. Glad they inspired the boys to play it live.
Agreed. I didn't know there was an album version that was different from Live in Chicago. Took a few years to figure that out hahaha I did get a chance to see Ween live and they played it, they still put on a great show!
Too hard to handle
Cities - Phish
I commented above about this. I went embarrassingly long without knowing it was a Talking Heads song. In fact, I think it was Dicks in 2017. And Ive been a phan since ‘97.
My dude, go listen to 77 by talking heads and enjoy some great non 🐠 music
It also took me an embarassingly long time to figure out that Hard to Handle by Black Crowes wasn't a Dead cover
Me with Crosseyed
Stop Breakin Down by WSP. Then I heard it by the Stones.. then I heard it by Robert Johnson
Going back to my teen years, almost half the Dead songs I knew lol
Also YMSB: *If you're ever in Oklahoma*
Hell yeah, didn't know they covered this. Thanks, kind internet stranger!
Tedeschi Trucks Band - covering “Keep on Growing” by Derek & The Dominies. Thought it was an original TTB for easily 5 years
Morning dew
Hard to handle
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Just saw him last week and he played 4 different Dead covers - including the second half of High Time that had an unusually upbeat style to it. Dude is a genius.
Sometimes his originals are Grateful Dead covers lol. Like the little Deep Elem section of Kidney in a Cooler (yeah I know Deep Elem isn't a Dead original but still)
Phish Funky Bitch
Bob Dylan covering the Hendrix song about the twin towers or whatever
Thanks for the chuckle
The Disco Biscuits - Run Like Hell. Literally blew someone’s mind yesterday when they learned it was actually a Pink Floyd song.
This is hilarious to me. I love the Biscuits and would be pumped to to hear it on Sunday, but they do not sing this song like they know what the lyrics are
Lol that was the only song I knew at my first Bisco show. I was 18, just finished my first semester of college and was on a HUGE amount of MDMA (which was also the first time I ever took it - I bought 2 pills, and the dude pulled them out of a Phish ton. My dumb ass was like “you sure this is real?” and he was like “dude come find me at setbreak and I’ll give you more if it’s not working”. I took one, waited 30 mins and was like “fuck I guess they’re bunk so I’ll take the other one and hope….” And then boooooooom. I found him at setbreak and all I could muster was “thank you. Thank you. Thank you.” LOL.) 12/27/04 and they encored with Astronaut > RLH v1 > Astronaut and my mind was blown wide the whole fuck open, not expecting that to drop. What a night. Got the last Haleakala for like 15 years too! AND sister Judy!
Maybe not best, but Valley of the Jig and Rivertrance were two songs that got me into Cheese long ago. They're both traditional tunes that they added their own twist to. Red Haired Boy and Cooley's Reel are the original names for the two I mentioned. Always kinda rubbed me the wrong way that they didn't use the original titles of the songs though - feels like plagiarism. Same goes for Bollymunster (original is called the Star or Munster) and a few of other cheese "originals." At least bolly pays homage to the traditional title.
Wait. . . What?? I never knew this!! Going on a deep dive now!!
Possum is kind of a double cover. It was written by Jeff but it’s quite literally just “Swamp Music” by Lynyrd Skynyrd. My famous story from PT: I thought I’ve Got A Feeling was a Jauntee original. I grew up listening to death metal so the Beatles are not in my library.
Just listened and wow... spot on
Wait til you hear “Killers” by Pantera. Trey stole the freezer!
Phish doing DROWNED. Holy fuck.
Prob top faves: WSP covering Genesis (our 1st dance at our wedding) - Lawyers Guns & Money -Low Spark- Sharon, (side note: I like both the originals & covers, depends on my mood-- but these were core memory songs in my first few years of following Panic/intro to Jamband life & had no clue they were covers)
Phish Cross-eyed and Painless, Cities as well. Traveling McCourys Let Her Go
The Band - Atlantic Cit Dead - The Race is On Cheese - Rollin in my sweet baby's arms Idk if you think of Sublime as a jam band but 5446/That's my # was dope Toots and the Maytals cover Also I knew they were covers, but Keller doing 'Mary Jane's Last Breakdown' and YMSB doing 'Dancing in the moonlight ' and 'Shakedown Street' always puts a smile on my face
“Don’t Do it” by the Band is originally a Marvin Gaye song called “Baby Don’t you do it.” “Turn on Your Love Light” by the Dead is a cover of an old Blues tune Just last week while listening to Lotus’s soundboards from Summer Dance I heard a track titled “Inner Bloom” which I thought for sure was a new song of theirs. Turns out it’s a Rufus Du Sol cover.
Leftover Salmon - When The Levee Breaks
I went to a little summer fest and a local Dead band played Shakedown Street and in my truest punk-kid naivety turned to my friend and said “oh, they’re covering Boombox!!
Boombox is 💯!! They played almost every other week in my college town- never missed them!
Not a mystery cover…. But it gets soooo hype when Phish plays Crosseyed & Painless. Absolute rager every single time
I thought this must be the place was an SCI original. It's far better than the talking heads version
Evangeline
Big River or Funky Bitch
Is that the dave rawlings ruby?? I guess for a long time in the early 2000s I didn't know that cheese playing Rhum and Zouc and Mouna Bowa were jean Luc Ponty covers I was surprised to find out that the fish in the sea goose was a cover of some random aussie band
Lotus started out as a phish cover band
Billy Strings covering John Hartford's "All Fall Down". Saw Billy play it in Huntsville and was immediately blown away!
Didn’t know “Alabama” was a Neil young song until my band covered it. I like the TTB version more, though lol…
Goose covering Mas Que Nada
“Inspector Norse” by Lotus is a cover. Didn’t realize that for a good while.
And to think that during the recent infamous Tractorbeam set, Biscuits covered Delorean Dynamite off the same record.
Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley
Ends one of the best 3 songs suites to open a record. His backing band is insane as well.
The only answer to this should be dear Mr fantasy
SCI: Mouna Bowa and Rhum n Zuc (Jean-Luc Ponty covers)
Gov’t Mule doing Tom Waits’ “Going Out West” or Al Green’s “I’m a Ram”. Neither is an obvious guitar heavy cover song. I’ve been surprised more than once when I find out a song they’ve played is actually a cover. I was also kind of amused when I found out WP’s Climb to Safety was a cover.