Cover Yourself is Blues Traveler's ninth album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

. It contains previously released songs reworked with acoustic

Acoustic music

Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...

 instrumentation and, for some songs, different arrangements from the originals.

History

As early as 1998, Blues Traveler expressed a desire to release an acoustic album. During writing sessions for the follow-up to their previous album, ¡Bastardos!, the band decided to revisit older material as they were approaching their twentieth anniversary.

Fans were asked for input in the song selection through the band's official website in early 2007.

At the band's annual Independence Day

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 concerts at Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Red Rocks Amphitheatre is a rock structure near Morrison, Colorado, where concerts are given in the open-air amphitheatre. There is a large, tilted, disc-shaped rock behind the stage, a huge vertical rock angled outwards from stage right, several large outcrops angled outwards from stage left and a...

 in 2007, twenty flash drives were randomly distributed throughout the venue. Each included two songs from the upcoming album.

Blues Traveler performed an acoustic set on A&E's

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 Private Sessions, which aired in August 2007. During the interview segments, John Popper

John Popper

John Popper is an American musician and songwriter.He is most famous for his role as frontman of rock band Blues Traveler performing harmonica, guitar and vocals...

 mentioned that a possible title for the album would be "Cover Yourself".

The band announced a special preorder offer that included a bonus CD of live tracks.

The album was released on October 30, 2007.

Track listing

1. "But Anyway"
2. "Just For Me" (with G. Love
   G. Love
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   )
3. "Defense & Desire"
4. "Hook
   Hook (song)
   "Hook" is a song by jam band Blues Traveler, from their 1994 album Four. The song peaked at #23 on the Billboard Hot 100.The song's title refers to a hook in music terminology: the catchy element or phrase of a song which makes it distinctive and memorable...
   
   "
5. "The Mountains Win Again" (with Jono Manson)
6. "100 Years"
7. "You Lost Me There"
8. "Run-Around
   Run-Around
   "Run-Around" is a song by American jam band Blues Traveler, featured on the 1994 album Four. Blues Traveler won their first Grammy Award for the song in 1995.The song was the band's breakthrough hit, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100....
   
   "
9. "NY Prophesie"
10. "You Reach Me"
11. "Carolina Blues" (John Popper and Charlie Sexton
    Charlie Sexton
    Charles Wayne Sexton is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter best known for the 1985 hit Beat's So Lonely and as the guitarist for Bob Dylan's backing band from 1999 to 2002 and since 2009...
    
    )