Best Tributes, Covers, Dedications


There have been some fine tribute, cover, and dedication albums. A few examples in pop include:

The Bridge-A Tribute to Neil Young
Hank Williams-Timeless
Till The Night Is Gone-A Tribute to Doc Pomus
Shangrila-A Tribute to the Kinks

I would include albums of original material in which the dedications are presented thematically, like Lou Reed's "Magic & Loss"(Doc Pomus), or Lou Reed with John Cale "Songs for Drella"(Warhol).

The idea could be stretched into a general list of "best of" cover albums. I nominate Matthew Sweet's recent "Under the Covers Vol. I & II.

Any other good examples in pop, jazz, or classical?
dgarretson
Lou Reed with John Cale "Songs for Drella"(Warhol).

A favorite of mine, if you can listen all the way though without being moved and smiling at the same time you're not hearing the words.
I really like:

Tapestry Revisited-A Tribute to Carole King
Common Threads-Songs of the Eagles
For covers, take a listen to Jeff Healy Band "Cover to Cover".It's comprised of songs they played when they were a bar band.
most tribute albums are of the listen-once-and-forget-it variety, but one that really stands out is the roky erikson tribute (i believe it's called "when the pyramid.."), which has great covers by rem, john wesley harding,etc. i also highly recommend the gene clark tribute, full circle--he wrote a boatload of incredible songs. my final pick is the posies tribute, which i think is called beautiful something or other.
John Coltrane: "My Favorite Things"(Rodgers, Hammerstein, Porter, Gershwin)
Joe Henderson: "Lush Life"(Billy Strayhorn)
The Classical Jazz Quartet: "Play Bach"