This month, all my A to Z Challenge posts will feature a song that is on my personal list of “deep cuts.” These are songs that my husband often razzes me about, that there’s no one else who has ever heard of them or is listening to them, or they’re songs that possibly are just not that mainstream. If we are of the same era or run in the same musical taste circles, none of these may seem that off the beaten path, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t fun songs! Enjoy!

The song “Hard Luck Woman” by Kiss is pretty well known, but did you know that Garth Brooks did an AMAZING cover of this song? He did! And, dare I say, I think I might like it better than Kiss’s version! I’m a sucker for acoustic guitar, so this song hooked me from the moment I heard it!

A fun story about this song — it was my sneaky way of getting a friend who is completely devoted to rock music to admit to liking a country artist! I played this song for him and asked him if he liked it, and he did, and I felt triumphant in getting him to admit he liked a song by a country singer.

When artists do covers of songs, I don’t like it when they make it their own. I prefer for them to start true to the original. Yes, there are exceptions (I’ve got at least one exception coming up this month). But Garth Brooks was quite faithful to the original, and I just love it! What do you think?