• Listeners like covers to expose a new meaning or feeling they missed from the original.

    For musicians covering their favourite songs or artists is a right of passage. Most covers allow musicians to indulge their favourite artists of the same style. This is fine for concerts but if you are going to record a cover try something new. Most listeners do not want to hear the same song done by different people, especially when the original is better. We listeners want something new and unexpected to come out of the song. To grasp a new meaning or feeling we were unable to get from the original. The first cover I heard that completely blew my socks off was Johnny Cash’s version of “Hurt” by Nine…