Stevie Nicks has a powerful catalog. She doesn’t need to dip into other peoples’. However she has done so on a number of occasions. Below, find our picks for Nicks’ best cover bouts. Are these covers as good as the originals?
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3 of the Best Stevie Nicks Covers
1. “Just Like a Woman” (Bob Dylan)
Like most musicians in her era, Nicks understood the importance of Bob Dylan. She even went as far as to cover him. She once delivered a powerfully simple rendition of “Just Like a Woman.” Nicks kept her cover pretty true to Dylan’s original version, but there is no mistaking the magic of Nicks’ vocals.
Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Everybody knows that baby’s got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls
She takes just like a woman
Yes, she does, she makes love just like a woman
Yes, she does, and she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl
2. “Free Fallin’” (Tom Petty)
Nicks has professed her Tom Petty fandom on more than one occasion. Naturally, she has chosen to try her hand at his music from time to time. The cover we’re taking a look at is her take on Petty’s “Free Fallin’”. Nicks and her Fleetwood mac bandmates more than did this song justice.
She’s a good girl, loves her mama
Loves Jesus, and America too
She’s a good girl, crazy ’bout Elvis
Loves horses and her boyfriend too
It’s a long day livin’ in?Reseda
There’s a free-way runnin’ through the yard
And I’m a bad boy, cause I don’t even miss her
I’m a bad boy for breakin’ her heart
3. “I Still Miss Someone (Blue Eyes)” – Johnny Cash
You wouldn’t immediately think of Nicks as a Johnny Cash fan, nevertheless, she did record one of his songs for her album, The Other Side of the Mirror. “I Still Miss Someone (Blue Eyes)” is very different from Cash’s version, but a cover nonetheless.
At my door the leaves are falling
A cold wild wind will come
Sweethearts walk by together
And I still miss someone
I go out on a party
And look for a little fun
But I find a darkened corner
‘Cause I still miss someone
(Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Billy Joel & Stevie Nicks)
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