![]() The original Fleetwood Mac’s music is very under-appreciated. “Peter Green has been a favorite of The Majorleans for a long time. RITA COOLIDGE FIRE ME BACK RAR MACThe Majorleans – Black Magic Woman (Santana / Fleetwood Mac cover) Thanks for taking this journey with us.Ĭover Me Founder Cover Me Turns 10: A Covers Tribute to Covers 1. For ten years this blog has been all about celebrating the music and we’re not going to stop now. ![]() RITA COOLIDGE FIRE ME BACK RAR DOWNLOADThe whole thing is free to download at Bandcamp until downloads run out, and free to stream forever.Įnough chatter from me. A million thanks to all of them, and also to Cover Me writer and art whiz Sean Balkwill for designing the lovely – ahem – cover. So speechless, in fact, that we asked them all to introduce their own work with a few sentences. We’re honored that so many of our favorite musicians contributed, and frankly speechless at how great a job they did. That is, to honor the many great songs we might not even know without an iconic cover – Aretha Franklin reinventing Otis Redding’s “Respect,” Quiet Riot amplifying Slade’s call to feel the noize, Prince learning that nothing compares 2 Sinéad O’Connor. We contacted several dozen of our musician friends and asked them to cover a cover. So we put together this little album Cover Me Turns 10: A Covers Tribute to Covers as a gift to our readers. And we wanted to celebrate not just ourselves, but celebrate the cover song itself. We wanted to do something special to celebrate our tenth birthday. And in case the large banner ads all over the site weren’t clue enough, I just released a book also called Cover Me, which – back-patting alert – Variety called “one of the best multi-subject music books to come down the pike in years.” We’ve grown from an ugly Blogspot to our spiffy own domain (which is overdue for a redesign itself, frankly). Oh, and did you notice the pronoun change there? Cover Me is no longer an “I” – it’s a “we”, with over 60 writers contributing over the years. We’ve published 3,564 posts as of this one. RIP to Copy Right?, Cover Freak, Fong Songs, and the rest of the pioneers – and shoutout to our fellow survivors from that era, Coverville, which was releasing podcasts before most people knew what that word meant, and the folk blog Cover Lay Down, which began around the same time as us.Ī lot has changed over the past decade. ![]() That’s right, I’d like to claim credit for inventing the category, but I didn’t – not even close. These were the days of the so-called “MP3 blog,” which included a vibrant subgenre of cover-songs blogs. I’d already hosted a Cover Me college radio show, and decided to expand us to the World Wide Web. I’d fallen in love with the cover song after hearing Bob Dylan (who else) play a revelatory cover of “Summertime” on his short-lived radio show. A second blog actually, since for several years I had run a personal blog of concert reviews and bootleg downloads called Dylan, Etc (it had more “Dylan” than it did “Etc”). I was studying abroad one semester and found myself with a lot of free time – school work was light, and a college student’s budget limited my international explorations – so I decided to start a blog. ![]()
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