Season of The Witch (song) - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

The song has been covered by many artists:

• Julie Driscoll covered the song in 1967 along with Brian Auger on their album Open
• Al Kooper and Stephen Stills covered the song on their album Super Session in 1968; the album's other featured guitarist, Mike Bloomfield, performed a version with Kooper at a New York "Super Session" concert eventually released on disc in 2003 as The Lost Fillmore Concert Tapes 12-13-68, though a subsequent bootleg concert recording features Bloomfield declining requests for the song saying he disliked the song. The Kooper-Stills version has been sampled in a number of hip-hop songs. This version also features "Fast" Eddie Hoh on drums, who played on Donovan's original recording.
• Sam Gopal covered the song on their album Escalator.
• The acid rock band Vanilla Fudge achieved mild success with a cover of "Season of the Witch" in the late 1960s.
• Terry Reid performed a ten minute cover of this song on his 1968 debut album, Bang Bang, You're Terry Reid.
• Pesky Gee! (pre-Black Widow psychedelic rock band) covered the song on their album Exclamation Mark in 1969.
• South-African psychedelic band Suck recorded a version of the song on their album Time to Suck in 1970.
• Stephen Stills covered the song on a solo album.
• Hole covered "Season of the Witch" during their MTV Unplugged session.
• Boston band Heretix covered the song on their EP "AD" in 1990.
• The alternative rock band Luna released it as a single (1996).
• The phony 'supergroup' The Masked Marauders performed the song on their lone LP, with vocals by Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger impersonators.
• Covered by Robert Plant several times live. The first was in the medley "That's Why I'm In The Mood" in 1993, and in 1999 when he toured with his short lived project Priory Of Brion.
• Covered By Dr. John On the Blues Brothers 2000 Soundtrack; Dr. John's version plays during the scene in which the band arrives at the swamp lands, and is featured on the soundtrack album.
• Lou Rawls recorded the song for his 1999 album Brotherman!: Lou Rawls Sings the Hits.
• Covered by the darkwave band Babylonian Tiles.
• Covered by Joan Jett on her released-in-Japan album Naked.
• Covered by Richard Thompson on the Crossing Jordan soundtrack album Jordan Crossing; this version was used in opening sequence of an episode of the television series, Crossing Jordan.
• Covered by Jenny Devivo on the Hed Kandi Nu Cool 4 album in 2000.
• Covered by Vanilla Fudge on the album The Return from 2002.
• Covered by Bobby Hughes (remix from Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Stephen Stills Super Session album) in May 2005
• The Strangelings included a cover of "Season of the Witch" on their album of the same name in 2007.
• Covered by Karen Elson as a b-side to her first single from her 2010 debut album
• Covered by poet and musician, Alan Pizzarelli as "Boneyard, Ghoul of the Blues" on his 2010 debut album, Voices from the Grave.
• Covered by the band Tea Leaf Green many times live.
• Covered by the band Mundy