Makeover Monday - Bluegrass Cover Songs Pt. 1

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Today's #makeovermonday is going to focus on a genre that I used to not be particularly fond of...bluegrass music. There is a little story behind why I started listening to *some* Bluegrass Music. I was in a well-known department store one night and was browsing through the cd's and came across a cd that was called "Pickin' on Green Day". It was a band that covered their songs, but did it in the style of Bluegrass. Now, granted, again, I wasn't a fan of the genre, but I decided to give it a go and actually liked a few of the songs. I did some research and came across a few other bands that did Bluegrass cover versions of popular music. Here are just a few to get this #makeovermonday started!

1.When I Come Around as performed by Cornbread Red ft. Honeywagon. The original song was first released as a single in early 1995 by the band known as Green Day. This band took a punk rock band's song and made listening to Bluegrass Covers tolerable for me.

2.Back In Black as performed by Hayseed Dixie. The original song was released in 1980 by AC/DC just a few months after Bon Scott's death with a new lead singer. While I love the original version, I can also tolerate this Bluegrass version as well!

3.Kryptonite as performed by Cornbread Red. Okay, I did not intentionally mean to use the same artist twice in this post, but I had to look up who sang this version, and it was Cornbread Red. Kryptonite was originally performed by the band 3 Doors Down and the original song was released in 2000.