| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Year |
| Frank Sinatra | High Hopes | The Capitol Years | Capitol | 1990 |
| Patricia Barber | Get Out of Town | The Cole Porter Mix | Blue Note | 2008 |
| Bill Frisell | A Change Is Gonna Come | History / Mystery | Nonesuch | 2008 |
| The Band | It Makes No Difference | Norther Lights--Southern Cross | Capitol | 1975 |
| Ferron | Our Purpose Here | Testimony | Redwood | 1980 |
| Greg Brown & Bill Morrissey | You Can't Always Get What You Want | Friend of Mine | Philo | 1993 |
| Jorma Kaukonen | Another Man Done a Full Go Round | River of Time | Red House | 2009 |
| John Mayall | The Laws Must Change | The Turning Point | Polydor | 1969 |
| Fleetwood Mac | Man of the World | 25 Years: The Chain | Warner Bros. | 1992 |
| Randy Newman | Lonely at the Top | Live | Reprise | 1970 |
| David Bowie | Time | Aladdin Sane | Ryko | 1973 |
| The Bad Plus with Wendy Lewis | Comfortably Numb | For All I Care | Heads Up | 2009 |
| Leonard Cohen | Land of Plenty | Ten New Songs | Columbia | 2001 |
| Cat Power | Naked If I Want To | Jukebox | Matador | 2008 |
| Neil Young | Expecting to Fly | Sugar Mountain Live | Reprise | 2009 |
| Richard & Linda Thompson | The Great Valerio | I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight | Hannibal | 1974 |
| Antony & the Johnsons | Daylight and Sun | The Crying Light | Secretly Canadian | 2009 |
| Sarah Cahill | Saintly | Kyle Gann: Private Dances | New Albion | 2008 |
| Christopher O'Riley | Knives Out | True Love Waits | Odyssey / Sony | 2003 |
| Joni Mitchell | Rainy Night House | Ladies of the Canyon | Reprise | 1970 |
| The Beatles | Across the Universe | Let It Be ... Naked | Capitol | 2003 |
| Lou Rhodes | Each Moment New | Beloved One | Cooking Vinyl | 2006 |
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