Cover Me Up (The Rolling Stones)

• Bloodkin
• Mr. Blotto
• Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
• Patterson Hood
• Everything Else

The Rolling Stones (480 songs)

As I mention on the Beatles Covers page, I've collected free, legal, on-line covers of Rolling Stones songs over the years. Early on, many were found at the now-defunct MP3.com, but I then stumbled upon a treasure trove at the Internet Archive's Live Music Archive. Unfortunately, the songs are not always credited to the Stones in the set lists, so I usually end up searching the archive for individual song titles. (Or simply trying concerts at random - in one live song cover, the artist says that Steve Earle once advised her to always include at least one Stones song in each concert!) I've run across a couple of parodies, like John Cipollina's "Honky Tonk Jekyll & Hyde", but haven't included them in this list.

Although I have their earlier LPs (stored in a closet), I mostly listened to the Stones' Beggars Banquet through Goat's Head Soup albums. Consequently, I'm a little rusty on the early albums and I didn't really follow the group after the mid-1970s. As with the Beatles, there are a number of Rolling Stones cover bands (e.g., Dirty Work) whose works I've not included here.

Video sites such as YouTube are a relatively recent and inexhaustible source of Rolling Stones covers. I include YouTube covers if I happen upon one, so you'll find a few scattered here and there below, but I don't make an effort to catalog each and every one available.

Bloodkin performs a Rolling Stones Set (December 16, 2011)

Yes, "Shake Your Hips" (Slim Harpo) and "Stop Breaking Down" (Robert Johnson) were not written by Jagger and Richards (or Taylor), but I've included them anyway because of the 50% Exile on Main Street composition of the set. Three unrelated songs between "Happy" and "Loving Cup" are excluded.

The show, subtitled "Exile On Lumpkin Street", features the late legendary Bobby Keys on saxophone.

Mr. Blotto performs Some Girls (July 30, 2005)

I know "Just My Imagination" is a Temptations' song, not a Rolling Stones original. I've included it here for completeness of the album.

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe performs Sticky Fingers (February 11, 2012)

"You Gotta Move" is not a Rolling Stones original, but was based on Mississippi Fred McDowell's version of the song. I've included it here for completeness of the album.

Patterson Hood performs a Rolling Stones Set (March 2, 2006)

Everything Else