Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jimi Hendrix, David Coverdale and Johnny Cash. Cover versions are easy to play but much harder to get right. It’s the rare band or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Let’s start with an obvious pick. According to setlist.fm, Pearl Jam have played this Neil Young classic 333 times across their ...

I did a deep dive into eight classic country songs that have notable cover versions. Then, I compared the two. So, now the real question is: do we have the same musical taste or not? The Sons of the ...

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 ...

While some artists prefer to stick faithfully to the source material when singing a cover, others like to make it their own. Whether for personal morals, creative choice, or commercial success, the ...

It is the ultimate form of compliment from one artist to another when they record their own cover version of the original artist's work. Artists covering other artists have long been an integral part ...

We ranked the top 50 cover versions of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah for you! “Hallelujah is a Hebrew word which means, ‘Glory to the Lord,’” the late Leonard Cohen once noted when asked about ...

No singer can combine seemingly vapid lyrics with a bubblegum beat and transform it into an iconic anthem quite like Madonna. After all, that’s exactly why she is known as the Queen of Pop, and that’s ...

If the backing track on Beyoncé’s new recording of the Beatles’ “Blackbird” sounds especially familiar, there’s good reason for that. It turns out that the cover version she recorded for her “Cowboy ...

Chan Marshall (pictured), who goes by the stage name Cat Power, has been a fixture on the American indie-rock scene since the mid-1990s. She is a highly regarded artist, praised for her sombre, ...

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 ...