Luke Combs' version of Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Car' is a recent chart-topping hit. The Beatles and Rolling Stones began as cover bands. Now, in a music era dominated by YouTube and TikTok, there are more cover songs than ever
What's the difference between a great cover song and a banal cover song that brings little or nothing to the table? One is like tasting a delicious, unexpectedly creative version of your favorite dish — a new take on a tried-and-true treat that thrills with its skill, vision and ingenuity. The other is like being force-fed a bowl of pudding made out of lard and skim milk.
But it's only one of the classics first recorded by other artists that she indelibly made her own, as her sublime versions of everything from 'I Say a Little Prayer' and 'The Weight' to 'Amazing Grace' and 'Nessun Dorma' readily attest. Call it musical alchemy or outright magic, but Jimi Hendrix so masterfully reinvented Bob Dylan's 1967 song, 'All Along the Watchtower,' that Dylan himself quickly realized he had been surpassed.
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