Click to hear Wanda Jackson's "Thunder On The Mountain"

Bob Dylan himself suggested that the rockabilly queen record this blues shuffle from Modern Times. Jackson — who tackled "Thunder on the Mountain" for her upcoming, Jack White-produced album — sends the song back to 1958, sounding like she isn't a day over 21. With rollicking piano and White's squealing guitars, it's a sock-hop jam that name-drops Jerry Lee instead of Alicia Keys.

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“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.