Jul 082015
 

Welcome to Cover Me Q&A, where we take your questions about cover songs and answer them to the best of our ability.

Here at Cover Me Q&A, we’ll be taking questions about cover songs and giving as many different answers as we can. This will give us a chance to hold forth on covers we might not otherwise get to talk about, to give Cover Me readers a chance to learn more about individual staffers’ tastes and writing styles, and to provide an opportunity for some back-and-forth, as we’ll be taking requests (learn how to do so at feature’s end).

Today’s question, from Cover Me editor-in-chief Ray Padgett: What’s your favorite cover song of 2015 so far?
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Jul 012011
 

Handcrafted Soul are all over the map. The band name sounds like a Chicago rhythm-and-blues revue. Their press photos look like an Alabama country-western group. Yet their website reveals that they are, in fact, a duo in France, half a world away from either of these places. As their cover selections show, though, they’ve got old-school American music running in their Parisian veins. Continue reading »