Cover Wars: Can’t You Hear Me Knocking

Outformation: This is solid effort from the Atlanta-based Outformation. The strong guitar work makes up for some subpar vocals. Source: 3-20-2009

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Turkey Bouillon Mafia: Our final two contenders both have the advantage of having a sax player in the mix. Dave “The Truth” Grippo plays this entire show with the Turkey Mafia folks and Seth Yacovone is also on additional guitar for this performance. Source: 9-2-2005

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Umphrey’s McGee: UM debuted this cover during the 2007 NYE Run and welcomed Jeff Coffin (doing the multiple sax thing) to the stage for the debut performance. It has been played a total of six times, the most recent rendition featured Luther Dickinson on additional guitar at Ram’s Head in Baltimore. Source: 12-30-2007 via Podcast 62

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While Phish never played CYHMK full-on, they dropped jams of it a lot. Here’s a great one from the 11-4-1994 Weekapaug Groove.

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VIDEO from 2003: