Other Matties

[Dr Monk]

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have also been doing Matty on tour. Sounds like it is based on the Liege and Lief version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq6YqJBHHIc
(not great quality sound)

[jaypeter (Peter)]

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have also been doing Matty on tour. Sounds like it is based on the Liege and Lief version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq6YqJBHHIc
(not great quality sound)

Nope. Leaves me cold. What's the point?

[PLW (Peter)]

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have also been doing Matty on tour. Sounds like it is based on the Liege and Lief version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq6YqJBHHIc
(not great quality sound)

Nope. Leaves me cold. What's the point?

Every point. You want a song to survive, sing it. Evene if you copy someone else's version, it'll be different enough to carry it forward.

[jaypeter (Peter)]

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have also been doing Matty on tour. Sounds like it is based on the Liege and Lief version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq6YqJBHHIc
(not great quality sound)

Nope. Leaves me cold. What's the point?

Every point. You want a song to survive, sing it. Evene if you copy someone else's version, it'll be different enough to carry it forward.

Sorry, didn't make meself clear, I didn't like it, pointless to argue further, just a matter of taste. I didn't think it was a "version" of the song, and I kept wanting them to sing the song, not snatches of the song in the middle of another song/framing device.

[Kathryn]

one of the earlier Buffy Ste. Marie albums has "Lady Margaret"...sung to the 'Shady Groves/Matty Groves tune the words combine aspects of both 'Barbara Allen' and 'Matty'.....forbidden love and death, a classic combination!

[Brendan]

Probably been mentioned, but don't the Kipper Family do a version called Fatty Groves

[John From Austin]

Jason Wilson did a reggae version of Matty on his latest album.

Swarby played with Wilson earlier this month in Canada, and did quite the avant garde fiddle solo on Matty.  If I'm not mistaken, Swarb also plays on the album.

[rogthedodge]

My favourite alternative version is Little Musgrave sung by Christy Moore & Planxty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0-gcccksAg&feature=related

For me Nic Jones' version is far better than Christy's (which is just annoying).

Nic's is my favourite 'Little Musgrave'.

I really don't have another favourite 'Matty' - all the others seem poor by comparison to the FP/Sandy renditions