My instrumental tribute to an old Scottish folk song, read more about the history at wikipedia: Black Is the Colour (Of My True Love’s Hair. There are many versions on YouTube, I was excited by the version of Nina Simone, but there are many interesting versions uploaded from UK too. I had to change the strange Scottish rhythm to make it more bluesy. Now waiting for some vocals, banjos, fiddles or bagpipes to join the session … – I’m very amused by the possibilities of the modern technologies: an hour later I found vocals, suddenly uploaded by the Scottish musician Ian McAulay / Babbazitt – as if we had been together in the same pub on this Sunday afternoon (a day later the bass player jmrukkers from Zurich joined):
https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar/unplugged-wikiloops-jam-no-6
P.S.:
this was the Scottish version, but the US-version was changed a lot over the decades (I’ll try my own second version soon), US example: Nina Simone, in the second part a guitarist introduces his own, different version:
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Love your version, and I always enjoy Nina Simone. Thanks for posting this one. 🙂 Happy Sunday to you, Frizz.
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Always love listening to the voice of Nina Simone.
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It’s funny how sometimes just seeing a song title will start you off singing, Frizz 🙂 This is one of those.
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Love Nina Simone. Love your version as well.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
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Great post, Frizz.
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Oh I LOVE that song!!
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Don’t want to be pushy, but I’ve also done versions of these two songs, one with Ian in fact! Here is a link to a traditional version of House of the Rising Sun which Ian asked me to sing on (thank you for that!) with lyrics I hadn’t heard before he brought it up to me. I even did original artwork for the song, which can also be seen here: http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=198533
As for Black is the Color of My True Love’s Skin, I hadn’t heard Nina Simone’s version when I did mine (a cappella) recently. How I missed her version, I haven’t a clue since I adore her on every level and thought I’d heard everything she’d done! Here’s my version, just to add to the pot (featuring my own altered lyrics): http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=183843
xox
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dear CARLA: AND I’m proud to feature you with your vocal experiment in Swahili language – our “AFRICAN DUET” – though it’s more a QUARTET with Carl:
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