![]() 2, was released ten years ago this Sunday (March 10th, 2009) in the United States. 7, containing a total of eighteen releases, featuring mostly cover songs. The series began in 2000 with Punk Goes Metal and last featured an entry with 2017’s Punk Goes Pop Vol. However, once upon a time the alternative/”punk” scene once had their own run on popular cover songs (albeit a little less radio friendly) due to Fearless Records’ Punk Goes… series. ![]() These were all critically acclaimed, often receiving some radio play. You can trace it all the way back to when Elvis Presley covered “Blue Suede Shoes” in 1956, Santana covering “Black Magic Woman” in 1970, Whitney Houston covering “I Will Always Love You” in 1992, Johnny Cash covering “Hurt” in 2003 (which would be this writer’s favorite cover of all time) and so on. Cover songs have always been such a big part of music.
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