Artist Covers

Keith Urban is back on the road, and he’s so excited to be playing music for his devoted fans that he’s pulling out all the stops. The ‘You Gonna Fly’ hitmaker recently wrapped up a series of shows in Canada and the Northeast, pausing in New Hampshire to join forces with fellow country crooner David Nail. The two stars wowed fans by putting on their own rendition of Brooks and Dunn‘s ‘Brand New Man.’

Keith Urban has been pretty open recently about his strong desire to focus on his music career. And while the award-winning country star is working hard to put out his next album, he recently showed his appreciation for fellow country star Miranda Lambert by covering one of her songs. On Tuesday night in Niagra Falls, the country crooner showed off his take of Lambert’s new single ‘The Fastest Girl in Town’ during his concert.

Kelly Clarkson continues to amaze country music fans with her twangy covers of popular country songs. Every time she plays a show, Clarkson chooses one fan from her audience to choose a cover song. As it turn out, the pop crossover’s fans are pretty into country music. For her latest country offering, Clarkson put on a smashing rendition of Lee Ann Womack‘s ‘I Hope You Dance.’

We’re not sure if Kelly Clarkson is trying to tease us by putting on smashing renditions of country classics, or if she just really loves the genre as much as we do. Clarkson once again proved that she has the chops to fully switch from pop music to country at will when she performed Trisha Yearwood‘s ‘Walkaway Joe’ this week.

Pop singer Demi Lovato has come a long way since her early days acting on the Disney channel, and before that, ‘Barney and Friends.’ Now, the bombshell brunette is rising through pop charts as a teen music sensation, but Lovato isn’t going to be pigeonholed into one type of music. On Tuesday (July 17) at her show in San Jose, the 19-year-old singer tried her hand at a little country twang, breaking out a gorgeous version of Lady Antebellum‘s ‘American Honey.’

Ethan Miller, Getty Images The original ‘Footloose’ soundtrack sold more than nine million copies, topped the Billboard charts, and spawned six top 40 singles — two of which went all the way to number one, earning Academy Award nominations in the process. The remake has some big shoes to fill, needless to say, so you’ve got to give Blake Shelton credit for chutzpah: he covered Kenny Loggins’ char

By the time she was 14, LeAnn Rimes had already recorded four albums — and the fourth, 1996′s ‘Blue,’ sold more than six million copies in the United States alone. Rimes has come a long way since those early days — she’s now a 28-year-old married woman with 15 studio albums under her belt. And for her latest studio set, ‘Lady and Gentlemen,’ she took a brand new approach.

As she makes the rounds on her ‘Speak Now’ concert tour, country singer Taylor Swift has been doing songs by local artists at each her stops. So when she was in Michigan recently, she busted out her best white-girl rap on a cover of Detroit-native Eminem’s iconic song, ‘Lose Yourself.’ The delighted crowd sang along as she channeled Slim Shady and then segued into a cover of Uncle Kracker’s ‘Smile

Country singer Ronnie Dunn – one half of superduo Brooks & Dunn – talked with Taste of Country a bit last week about musicians that influenced him. Among Dunn’s more interesting recent influences: “I love Harrison’s slide guitar on ‘Something,’” the singer told Taste of Country. Dunn has of course been impactful in his own wide-ranging way, and the wild diversity of Brooks & Dunn covers o

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