One of my favorite, but little-recognized rock-converted-to-Amercana Indie genre singer/songwriters, Grant Maloy Smith, released a brand new cover of Scarborough Fair August 23, 2023.  I rarely consider covers to be an enhancement of the original recordings, HOWEVER, Grant outdid himself.He teamed up with percussionist Kevin Lucas for an extraordinary cover with several evocative symbolic caricatures in the video.  He re-worded the original ballad - not Paul Simon's cover, rather the "original of the original" old English ballad which Paul Simon covered.  Smith not only re-worded but added an interesting chorus, of which there was no chorus in the original ballad.  Smith combines soft acoustic guitar-picking intertwined with some great rock electric guitar-picking the whole time accompanied by Marimba master Kevin Lucas.  WOW!  It sounds weird, but until you watch it, you wouldn't believe it.
Try it, you'll like it!
https://www.google.com/search?channel=ftr&client=firefox-b-1-d&q=scarborough+Fair+grant+maloy+smith+youtube#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:86f467eb,vidEmrX_LhgXY,st:0


 

Last edited by Little Rich (November 10, 2023 8:07 pm)