Guitarist Rainer Ptacek opened his 1994 album "Nocturnes" with what AllMusic critic Bob Gottlieb describes as a "stunning instrumental" reading of the song, recorded live in a chapel in Tucson, Arizona. Writing for the same website, Brian Downing considers a 1997 version by Ptacek, released on his posthumous album "Live at the Performance Center", to be "perhaps one of the best unheralded Beatles covers of all time". Patti Smith included it on her 2007 covers album "Twelve", a version that, according to BBC music critic Chris Jones, "sounds like song could have been written for her". Other artists who have recorded "Within You Without You" include Peter Knight and his Orchestra, Firefall, Glenn Mercer of the Feelies, and Thievery Corporation.