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Covers of songs that elevate the original by changing tempo, genre, time signature, etc
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Shoeless
March 30, 2025, 9:50pm
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Dan Hicks put the folk-jazz on Tom Waits’ “The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)”.
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