Cover version

For other uses, see Cover version (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Album cover or Remix.
Jimi Hendrix's cover of "All Along the Watchtower" was more successful 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. 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.[1]

  1. ^ 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.