Dave Edmunds : Girls Talk [Purchase] Elvis Costello gave Dave Edmunds this song in "a moment of drunken bravado" as he p...

Johnny Cash: The Big Light [ purchase ] Elvis Costello on Johnny Cash, from the June Carter Keep on the Sunnyside compilation Joe ...

Nick Lowe : Indoor Fireworks [ purchase (album only) ] In the early days, Elvis Costello covered Nick Lowe ("What's So Funny Ab...

Bill Janovitz: Oliver's Army [ download from Janovitz's blog ] A number of years back, I located a copy of Almost B...

The Henry Girls : Watching the Detectives [ purchase ] “Watching the Detectives,” Elvis Costello’s 1977 first hit single in the U.K...

Dust Poets: Veronica [ purchase ] Why this, when there's so much broken beauty in the songs of Elvis Costello? Because my own pers...

Robert Wyatt : Shipbuilding [ purchase ] When I heard that this week’s theme would be covers of Elvis Costello songs, two ideas jumpe...

Beth Nielsen Chapman: Love Me Tender [ purchase ] Like so many of The King's greatest hits, Love Me Tender is a many-covered thi...

The Saints : Kissin' Cousins [Purchase] Bob Geldorf said "Rock music in the seventies was changed by three bands - The Sex ...

Doc Watson: Heartbreak Hotel [ purchase ] We speak so much and so well of Arthel "Doc" Watson's ethnomusical prowess wit...

Suzi Quatro : All Shook Up [Purchase] In 1973 Suzi Quatro was one of America's most successful exports to the UK. Her debut albu...

Carl Perkins : Blue Suede Shoes [ purchase (CD only; individual tracks available on iTunes)] Here's a cover of a cover: Carl Perk...

Freddy Fender : (You’re the) Devil in Disguise [ purchase ] Freddy Fender : No Seas Cruel (Don’t Be Cruel) [ purchase ] Do ...

Wanda Jackson : Hard-Headed Woman [ purchase ]  King of Rock 'n' Roll, eh?  Well, I guess we get the King we deserve.  As a soci...

Waylon Jennings & Jessi Colter: Suspicious Minds [ purchase ] Me First and the Gimme Gimmes: [Always] On My Mind [ purchase ...

Dead Kennedys : Viva Las Vegas [ purchase ] In 1980, I was a college student and disc jockey at WPRB. Punk and new wave music were stil...

Eels : Can't Help Falling In Love [ purchase ] Nell Robinson: Can't Help Falling In Love [ purchase ] It's not just that th...

The Grascals : Viva Las Vegas [ purchase ] After a couple listens to The Grascals’ debut CD back in 2005, I was convinced that the...

Ry Cooder: Money Honey [ purchase ] For what it's worth, I was brought up equating the subject of our postings this week (The King...

Tom Paxton: Born On The 4th Of July [ purchase ] If the first person narrative of this song sounds familiar, it's because singer-song...