Shinedown recorded an acoustic version of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s song, Simple Man, and released it on their  2003 album entitled Leave A Whisper. They also released a video for the acoustic version of the cover and it spread like wildfire. Lead singer, Brent Smith shines (no pun intended) like diamonds on this one with his emotional release and powerful pipes. After his friend, Dimebag Darrell died in 2004, the song was often dedicated to Darrell as a tribute to his life as it is here in the live video performance.

Everybody’s heard Metallica’s Enter Sandman right? No you haven’t. Not like this, anyway! James Munroe does a really unique, acoustic version of Enter Sandman. It’s entertaining when someone does a good acoustic version of a song they like, but it’s extra cool when you get to hear an artist turn a song into their own style. James even goes as far as changing the vocal melody a bit, but not so much that you can’t still sing along! Enjoy yourself! Eeeexiiit Liiight!

You’ve probably heard the young alterna-pop band, The Plain White T’s, as their single has soared to the top or near the top of most radio charts and it definitely doesn’t lack airplay. You’ll probably be hearing a lot more from these popular kids in the future.
Here, Alx does a great job covering Hey There Delilah on his acoustic through a great sounding set up!

Three Days Grace is seen here doing their Stripped acoustic cover version of Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game. I’m not sure how I feel about this singer’s voice doing Wicked Game, but it’s a decent cover and if you’re a fan of Three Days Grace or that type of grungy vocal, then you’ll no doubt love this version!

Well, it would be impossible to avoid having at least one of John Mayer’s songs on this site, so here is Paul Lines doing an acoustic cover of Waiting On The World To Change. This guy sounds great, and apparently he’s known as a vocal chameleon and even does Tina Turner now and then! If he performs it on acoustic guitar, then we might have to add him again some time. Anyway, check out the great job he does on this one for now!