Teddy Swims and Tedeschi Trucks Band delivered one of the standout moments of the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Los Angeles with a raw, gut-punch performance of Joe Cocker’s “Feelin’ Alright,” the second song in an all-star tribute to the newly inducted Cocker. The pairing was instinctively right. Swims built his career the same way Cocker did, taking other people’s songs and making them feel entirely his own, starting with YouTube covers in 2019 that racked up hundreds of millions of views before signing with Warner Records. On the red carpet, Swims was direct about the influence: “As somebody that’s come up doing covers on YouTube and started my career that way, as somebody who made so many covers famous, I’ve even modeled my own career after him.” The tribute set opened with Nathaniel Rateliff and Tedeschi Trucks Band on “The Letter” before Swims took the stage, leading into an all-star finale of “With a Little Help From My Friends” featuring Tedeschi Trucks Band, Rateliff, Swims, Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper, and Chris Robinson. Adams, who inducted Cocker earlier in the evening, framed his legacy plainly: “It’s one thing to cover a song, but it’s another to make it your own. And that’s what Joe could do.”