Funny you should ask about John. We have a very nice interview with him done by Denys Stephens in the September issue of the LSA Quarterly. Denys has asked him about his relation to the lute and also transposed one of his pieces into French Lute tab.
Nancy Carlin >Somewhere in all this, John Renbourn's arrangement is surely worth a >mention. That said, was it ever a lute tune? > >Tony > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "doc rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Lute Net" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> >Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:00 PM >Subject: [LUTE] Re: Scarboro Fair > > > >> Try > >> http://www.guitarnoise.com/article.php?id=76 > >> > >> Paolo Declich > >> > >> > >> > > > > A little history - Paul Simon took Martin Carthy's arrangement of > > S.F. (which Martin had kindly (and rather naively, I guess) written > > out for him one evening at dinner) and copyrighted it out from under > > him. Fortunately for Martin he had recorded it on his Landfall LP, > > which had come out about a year before S&G's recording, so eventually > > Martin won the case. The upshot is, when someone says "Paul Simon's > > arrangement" of S.F., as on this site, it should read, "Martin > > Carthy's arrangement." > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > Nancy Carlin Associates P.O. Box 6499 Concord, CA 94524 USA phone 925/686-5800 fax 925/680-2582 web site - www.nancycarlinassociates.com Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA web site - http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org --
