Great songs and artists who virtually own them?

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

'Creep' by Radiohead.

A detour to the original subject (soz) is a seriously good cover of 'Bridge over Troubled Water' by Aretha Franklin.
IMO.