Nick Drake.

Elvis could be interesting...

Edge totally beat me to it.

Manilow? Tormet? Floyd (Pink or Cramer...)

Rolling Stones!

Pink Floyd, and can Tangier 57 play one of these things sometime?

Oh yeah. Michael Jackson? Too soon?

+1 for the Stones (Exile on Superior Street)
The Who
The Replacements 
Radiohead cover nights have been successful elsewhere.

Please refrain from Bob Marley ( I love Marley, but do not want to hear bleached versions of his songs)

There were two "...Does Dylan" albums in the last ten years or so, although I don't think they were direct fundraisers for Sacred Heart.

Robyn Hitchcock

Pixies
They Might Be Giants
Bob Mould
Replacements
Kinks
Ramones
Doors
Talking Heads

Buddy Holly, He actually has enough material that is known to young and old. Also has that obtuse connections of Bobby Dylan seeing Buddy at the armory and deciding thats what he wanted to do with his life. Also, as mentioned above, having musicians do their guilty pleasures or as I call then closet favorite. Could turn into a real sap fest but it could be interesting.  Otherwise hows about just doing favorite "pop" tunes

That one hit song that The Spin Doctors had.

I'd propose "Duluth Does Gram Parsons and the Byrds".  I think that sound would be well suited for Sacred Heart!

Duluth does Nickelback.  You would sell the place out.

David Bowie

Duluth Does Slayer.

The White Stripes and/or The Black Keys!

What Adam said.

The only band that matters: The Clash

ABBA.

+1 for Duluth Does Duluth
+1 for Radiohead

What about Duluth does Motown?

Duluth does Britian
Duluth Does the Range
Duluth Does Minnesota

Bo Carter.

Duluth Does Beck
Duluth Does Ween
Duluth Does NWA


I also like the Cake idea. No Floyd though, we hear enough Floyd covers thank you very much

Instead of having Duluth Does Ween, how about if we actually get Ween to play at Sacred Heart (or anywhere else up here)?  That would be amazing.

I second the vote for Duluth does Gram Parsons.

Also:

Duluth does Zen Identity

Duluth does Willie Nelson

Patti Smith

Duluth Does Minneapolis...
The Replacements
Husker Du
Soul Asylum
Prince
and many, many, other options

I have to admit, I'd love to see Low/Retribution Gospel Choir cover this:

+1 to Elliott Smith

The Dames

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass

Wow can't believe that anybody hasn't mentioned ZEPPELIN.  So many songs to choose from.  It would be really inspiring. Everybody loves a lil Led. Just imagine Kashmir or Stairway to Heaven  reverberating throughout the lovely accoustic structure of Sacred Heart.

@ eric: I'm crossing my fingers for a weekend other than the 22nd and 23rd.

Duluth Does Elvis Part 1 & 2 (Presley & Costello).
Duluth Does Chess Records, or Sun, or Motown.
Duluth Does Gospel.

Yeah, Ween at Sacred Heart would be great, and I guess Gartman already did the Ween cover thing a little while back. Black-eyed Snakes playing "Take Me Away" would be pretty badass.

There seems to be a resonance with the NWA suggestion ... perhaps Coal Car Caboose laying down "Fuck tha Police"... I'd go to that.

PS: the Stone would be the only other reasonable group to consider once again due to their very well known catalog and appeal across age and styles.

Most people want to hear music they are familiar with. Let's remember that the people, hopefully paying for tickets, probably aren't jaded musicians but "regular folks" (whatever that is) who would like to hear something they can hang their hat on. I am pretty sure that isn't NWA, Nike Drake, etc. But let's not quibble, Sacred Heart will choose for us. I know most people think Lawrence Welk is square but I tell you what: he has been dead for 20 years and he still has a show on weekly network TV! 51 years and still counting! No other musician even has a show much less one that is been on half a century. The longevity is due to the fact that he has always played music that is familiar and the people like (maybe not you and me, but enough people that he is still on the air and we are not).

Adam, Please tell more, RE: Larry Welk, what is not correct.

Woody Guthrie

+1 for Woody Guthrie

I changed my mind about the Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones shows, though. Somebody brought up the idea of Exile on Superior Street (technically it would be Exile on 4th Street), and I love that idea. Also, an evening of American Beauty would be awesome. I just don't want to hear "Fire on the Mountain" or "Touch of Grey."
Plus, we haven't had a good album covers show since Duluth Does White, or the Let it Be show at Luce (to which I am quite biased, I suppose). Although, I did see the band SOAP from Minneapolis play the entire Animals album, by Pink Floyd, at the Rex.

Knifey, I hear your concerns. Nothing has been more detrimental the the Deads music than obnoxious deadheads playing really bad bootleg recordings of really bad versions of their really  good songs over and over. Don't need the ones you mentioned and quite honestly really don't need the extended jams (although I love them....when its Jerry playing). There is enough real good songs to stand on their own.

Zar so whats your point? Do those "old"people some how count for less? If it is viewer supported that means real people actually watch it as opposed to "programed" stuff which is basically shit that the networks throw on the wall to see what sticks. It is on 52 weeks a year not just during pledge week.  Viewer supported, in a sense, is like an election, it means what gets played is the stuff the people who pay actually want to see. I've noticed at most of the Duluth Does events that a fair share of the paying customers are old enough to remember the Welk show when it was first run. I am sure Sacred Heart is more than happy to accept their money even if they are old and unhip as your message would seem to indicate.My original point wasn't, lets do a Duluth Does Lawrence Welk show, it was just a observation in response to Knifes comment that paying customers often like to hear things they are familiar with. The entire Duluth Does thing is about music already known to people,

I can get on board with Motown or Willie ( having already put in words for Buddy Holley or the Grateful Dead). In fact my instant run off voting is as follows: (First to worst)
1. Buddy Holley (SP?)
2. Grateful Dead
3. Rotating Rocks (the Stones dudes and dudettes!)
4. Willie Nelson
5. Motown
2 and 3 could be switched around. 
I really think Buddy is the most appropriate on many levels. (think "Fund Raiser for Sacred Heart", think old people with Money) (see previous posts re: L. Welk) Think lots and lots of really good tunes.

Knifey, that is just wunerful wunerful. Now excuse me I have to go take my Geritol so I can get up the strength to tune my guitar.

Duluth does Waits.

So much material to choose from, and his songs would sound incredible there.

@ W.T.F: nothin, dude. Was just saying.

I have it on good authority what Jamie Ness has been exploring his Deadness lately, and I think more than a few bands have done their own versions of Dead covers.

I'll agree that we need some more originality than that.

Still hoping for my original: Cohen.

The Velvet Underground - Loaded. From personal experience, I know this makes a great show. Phish covered the album in Vegas one Halloween.

Here are a few more ... Duluth does Canada, Duluth does Texas, Duluth does California, Duluth does Chicago, Duluth does New Orleans, Duluth does Memphis, and my final entry ... Duluth does Whatever We Want To.

There are three critical elements to the Duluth Does... show -- 1) It is a fundraiser for the venue, so it needs to be a good draw. Covers of Tim Kaiser's stuff won't bring in the throngs. 2) It has to be sonically appropriate for the space- Sacred Heart is not the venue for most of Led Zeppelin's library. 3)The theme has to be attractive enough to the musicians who will perform for free. It is a fundraiser for the venue, so the musicians really have to love the material.