Cover version

Jimi Hendrix's cover of "All Along the Watchtower" was a bigger hit than Bob Dylan's original version.

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song.[1] Originally, it referred to a version of a song released around the same time as the original in order to compete with it. Now, it refers to any subsequent version performed after the original.[2]

  1. ^ Padgett, Ray (2017). Cover me : the stories behind the greatest cover songs of all time. New York: Sterling. pp. 2–9. ISBN 978-1-4549-2250-6. OCLC 978537907.
  2. ^ Magnus, P.D. (2022). A Philosophy of Cover Songs. Open Book Publishers. pp. 3–27. doi:10.11647/obp.0293. ISBN 978-1-80064-422-9. OCLC 1321794085.