Surely Arthur Lee and Love recorded Hey Joe before Hendrix, or have I go tthe dates in the wrong order? I would have thought, however, that there was a difference between a cover, which is intended to evoke the performance covered, and a further recording of the same song, in which the intention differs.

"Come away Melinda" is a good example, perhaps, with maybe the three best known versions being Tim Rose, Uriah Heap, and Clannad - and the three are so different that at first listening one would doubt whether they were the same song. If I "cover" one of those versions I am surely not "covering" another.

Scrump, frankly, you seem to wish, unlike some of the other contributors to this thread, to have an uninformed discussion.