Helpless by Patti Smith

Well, I must tell you that I’ve been waiting for this one. Thanks to you Homo Eclectic.

On Tuesday, April 17, Columbia Records will release Twelve, an album of cover versions of classic popular songs newly interpreted by Patti Smith. Twelve is Patti Smith's first album of new studio recordings since Trampin' (2004), and is the artist's first-ever full-length collection of songs originally created by other performers including Helpless by Neil Young.

Patti Smith - Helpless .mp3 via Homo Eclectic

Also on Twelve, Smith and company - Lenny Kaye (guitar), Jay Dee Daugherty (drums) and Tony Shanahan (bass, keyboards) - interpret songs by Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Steve Wonder, Tear for Fears, the Doors, Nirvana, Jefferson Airplane, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Allman Brothers, and Paul Simon.

Web: pattismith.net

Below, you’ll find the original version – from Déjà Vu (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – 1970) - and a selection of covers among many (Cowboy Junkies, K.D. Lang, Jesse Malin, Nazareth, Trip Shakespeare, Jim Barile, Joe Goldmark, etc…)

Neil Young - Helpless .mp3
Nick Cave - Helpless .mp3
Buffy Sainte-Marie - Helpless .mp3
Knuckle Dusters - Helpless .mp3
Over The Rhine - Helpless (live) .mp3
Needle - Helpless .m3u (first two minutes only) via CD Baby