Great songs and artists who virtually own them?

More picks....

"Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan
"Exit Music (For A Film)" by Radiohead
"Waiting For A Miracle" by Leonard Cohen
"West End Blues" by Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five (or Seven)
"Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinead O'Connor
"Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes
"Death Letter" by Son House
"Dust My Broom" by Robert Johnson

Oops....forgot one....

"Hurt" by Johnny Cash

Rush Powned this Epic - even thirty years on I have never seen three people make so much music - sounds like an orchestral work. Today people use triggers and sequencers to do all that - these guys made all the sound.

Minutemen...DR WU on their "double nickels on the dime" (sst records) originally by Steely Dan. try it...the song is only like a minute long, wont take much time out of your life. disclaimer: they don't own it , but do a more than reasonable facsimile

Interesting call by Ballan on "Dust My Broom".
I know that the song is usually credited to Robert Johnson (and the song is so elemental that I can see why the choice was made) but...

I'd say that Elmore James OWNS that song (just MHO). I also suspect that he may have written it, (and that one is not JUST my MHO) since I'm not the only one with such suspicions. Google away.

Marty