RIP 'Cover Me'
Tuesday, November 10, 2026 at 1:27 PM All good things must come to an end, the age-old saying goes. And I will add Cover Me to my long list of loved websites calling it quits.
The website dedicated to cover songs will shutter at the end of this year after 19 years of documenting remakes of all colors, shapes and intentions.
Site co-founder Ray Padgett had this to say in a note to readers and email subscribers:
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"Why is this happening? It’s nothing like the bleak media stories you read about in the news these days. AI hasn’t decimated our traffic. We’re not undergoing massive layoffs (this was never anyone’s full-time job anyway). It’s simply that we’ve had a great run, and the two people who have overseen the blog for years—that’s me, Ray Padgett, who founded it, and our longtime Features Editor Patrick Robbins, who joined a few years in—feel it’s time to close the book. Just the usual life-change stuff. Nothing that dramatic, we promise."
The site closure is doubly sad for me. First, I read the site regularly, and more frequently over the past year as part of a book project (here's a hint).
