Good Country Covers. Bad Country Covers
A very good cover by a country singer of a very good song:
Mary Chapin Carpenter covers Bruce Springstein's Dancing in the Dark
Best line in the song (cover): "I check my look in the mirror: I want to change my clothes, my hair, my face. I ain't gettin' nowhere, just livin' in a dump like this."
A very bad cover by a country group of a very good song:
Lonestar covers Marc Cohn's Walking in Memphis
Best line in the song (original): "She said, 'Tell me, are you a Christian, child?' and I said, 'Ma'am, I am tonight.'"
I hear covers like this last one, and I think, "What in god's name did Lonestar think it was going to improve?"