Rona: Hope you like it. I know bluegrass - like any pure music genre -- can be an acquired taste. But even Lightfoot himself, I've read, considers these to be some of the best covers. I personally find it exciting when an exceptional musician (like Rice)takes a favorite song and gives it his/her own interpretation. The challenge is to find things in the music that no one else has seen. There is no point to performing if all you do is try to re-create someone else's vision or performance.
I'd like to ask if anyone has a GL song they'd like to hear done by a specific musician? I would LOVE to hear what Paul Simon could do with ANY of GL's songs. I heard him do a cover of a Beach Boys song that was gorgeous.
[This message has been edited by SeattleRain (edited July 20, 2004).]
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