I used to refuse to play covers. I thought playing someone else's song was a loss of identity - that I'd somehow disappear inside their words.
Then I wrote a song that people kept requesting (Cream & Suga'). Year after year. And somewhere in the hundredth performance I noticed something. My own song had become a cover.
And so lately, I've been playing more covers than originals. In my own way. With my own hands, my own accent, my own silence in the right places. And somewhere in that process a funny thing happens. The cover stops being theirs and starts being mine.
I'm not sure there's a clean line between original and cover anymore.
Maybe there never was.
What do you think?