T-Pain to take on Black Sabbath, Journey and more on new covers album
nme.comT-Pain has revealed that his upcoming covers album will include his take on songs by Black Sabbath and Journey, among others.
On Top Of The Covers is set to be released on March 17, and will serve as T-Pain’s follow-up to the 2019 album ‘1UP’. Alongside Black Sabbath and Journey – whose respective tracks ‘War Pigs’ and ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ will be covered – the album will include renditions of Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’, Dr.
Hook & The Medicine Show’s ‘Sharing The Night Together’ and Sam Smith’s ‘Stay With Me’.Covers of ‘Tennessee Whiskey’ by Chris Stapleton and ‘That’s Life’ by Frank Sinatra finalise the seven-song tracklist. “This covers album has been years in the making,” T-Pain said in a press statement. “This is something I’ve felt strongly about for a long time.
These songs are not what you’d expect when you hear that T-Pain is doing a covers album and that is what I think is cool about it.”T-Pain will celebrate the album’s release with two back-to-back concerts in the Los Angeles area over March 17 and 18.
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