Here's a great band that should've gotten far wider recognition but was all but killed (certainly dismissed) by way too heavy rotation of the album's poppier tunes on commercial radio. The deeper cuts are both poetically written and masterfully performed both in studio and Live. Here's one

Tonic - Mountain

Treat Me Like Your Mother by Dead Weather https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7QSkI6My1g
Master Blaster (Jammin') by Stevie Wonder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4yIvxJd7ck
Scsi 9 - Liquid Glass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdZnZE1NBNg
EDEN - Wake Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21EUVCNlW0s
Tep No - It's Alright (feat. Lizz Kellermann) (NGHTMRE Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JD6vnJghpc

Powerwolf "Amen and Attack"

Big Head Todd and the Monsters - Bittersweet , Broken Hearted Savior

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWter1w4vWE

Joanna Connor

Nice! I'll see your Joanna Connor and raise you one

--- ! Tyrannosaurus Chicken ! ---

And while we doin' Soulful Southern womens......

-- Alabama Shakes -- Hold On ---

Johnny Cash - I've Been Everywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov4epAJRPMw

LOL I haven't been playing my fiddle* long enough for any bow hairs to hang yet, someday...

Happy "World Fiddle Day 2013"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0MDt7nBE1o

You like fiddling?

Anne Harris

I was just coming to search if there are any heavier versions of: Bullet With Butterfly Wings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-r-V0uK4u0
like:
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
by Ill Niño
Dead New World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Eh3dtgGJUM
kind of a hard search?
Found some more covers by:
Skinlab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtMt2-AS7dk
Black Sheep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjadJrf7Vvw
SixforNinE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu117_M55Y4
Sigue Sigue Sputnik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Qsx5fnveA
nothing too spectacular...

I enjoyed the comment on the Tyrannosaurus Chicken video I posted where a guy said "I asked him if he had a pocket knife..... and he DID!". That's a pretty good "country boy" test but any real denizen knows pocket knives are impractical. A serious country boy needs a Buck knife in a sheath worn "upside down" on one's belt.

Here's another from the seriously soulful South -

St Paul and Broken Bones - Broken Bones and Pocket Change

Do NOT miss the last of 3 songs if you care at all for real passion and please do notice the singer's speaking voice. This is the Real.

(A little melancholically) Thinking of constructive knowledge passed by, that makes our souls grow...
Like every day we can meet a stranger who tells us such an interesting story...

Blind Guardian - The Bard's Song

Now you all know
The bards and their songs
When hours have gone by
I'll close my eyes
In a world far away
We may meet again
But now hear my song
About the dawn of the night
Let's sing the bards' song

Tomorrow will take us away
Far from home
No one will ever know our names
But the bards' songs will remain
Tomorrow will take it away
The fear of today
It will be gone
Due to our magic songs
[...]

Relics of Martyrs "Justice has been served"
Muert "Burial in the Forest"

Humble Pie The Fixer