Covers 2 (Show of Hands album)

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Covers 2
Studio album by Show of Hands with Miranda Sykes
Released	17 November 2010
Recorded	October 2010
Studio	Riverside Studios, Exeter, Devon
Genre	Folk acoustic[1]
Length	51:33
Label	Hands on Music
Producer	Mark Tucker
Show of Hands with Miranda Sykes chronology
Arrogance Ignorance and Greed (2009) Covers 2 (2010) Backlog 2 (2011)

Covers 2 is the fourteenth studio album by British folk duo Show of Hands. An official collaboration with double bassist and vocalist Miranda Sykes, who had been the duo's unofficial third member for six years, it is the duo's second album of cover versions,^[2] following Covers (2000). The album was intended for "friends and fans" of the duo, and an attempt to record songs that the duo had played live for some time. The album was produced by Mark Tucker and recorded as a mostly "straightforward" recording with little overdubs or extra production work.

The album was released in mid-November 2010 as a limited-edition album to be sold from the duo's Autumn tour that promoted the album, and was also released for a short time on the duo's website. As such, the album was not released in the shops or as a download. The album was a critical success, with Spiral Earth commending it as "the sound of one of the finest duos in English roots music having a blast".^[3]