While not every song works well played in a bluegrass style, some actually sound better that way.
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That's the opinion of T-Bone Pig - guitarist, mandolin player and one of the singers from self-described "bluegrass sinners" The Pigs.
The band is known for a love of doing bluegrass covers of popular songs and their latest album - Home Brew - features 13 Australian classics that have been "piggyfied".
But T-Bone says that finding the right songs to cover really does take some effort.
"There are definitely songs that don't work as bluegrass.
"With this album we had a really long list of songs. It's hard being an Australian and growing up here; there are so many Australian songs that we love but some just didn't work. But some really worked.
"So you can tell when something really works, where they're a natural for it. That's generally how it works.
"Some songs we've done, you can say they're rescued by banjo. In many ways they're better than the original. You add the banjo and think, 'I reckon this was originally an old-time song'.
"If you hear our version of Beyonce's Single Ladies - it definitely gives that song a new lease of life."
One unusual inclusion on the album is a cover of The Avalanches' Frontier Psychiatrist. That would appear to be a song that has to end up on the "doesn't work" list - but The Pigs manage to turn it into an effective bluegrass number.
"Something like that was a real challenge because The Avalanches' track is made up of samples," T-Bone says.
"It's all just samples of other songs, so we had to recreate that completely with the chords you'd play on the guitar or the fiddle, and we used the key parts of the melody in there. That's almost like a new song."
The band do a mix of covers and originals, with all their previous releases being a combination of both. To make things less confusing for the fans, they decided to make the Home Brew CD all covers.
"At the start we used to do mainly covers and it was just a lot of fun with mates and we never really took it that seriously," he says.
"We'd just do silly versions of songs and ham it up quite considerably, if you pardon the pun.
"People started coming to the gigs so we thought we should take it a bit more seriously. So we started writing songs."
That shouldn't be taken as meaning the band is pretty slapdash onstage. T-Bone says, while the covers might sound like fun, the band take their musicianship very seriously.
"We do have a lot of fun on stage with what we're doing," he says.
"But talking about the other guys in the band, there are some really hot musos there who really know what they're doing with their instruments."
The Pigs at Heritage Hotel, April 18