A cover song that plays it safe is worthless, in my book. The fun stems from taking a creative risk and deviating from the original playbook. When a musician exhumes a track from a peer or predecessor's catalogbonus points if it's in a different genreand morphs a familiar hit into a daring new arrangement, my audiophile heart skips a beat. — Read the rest
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