OMG What an INTRO ! Another time , another place. I just got back from there as the song ended...... :( genius.

Hurrah for immigrants like my grandparents

I remember watching this on tv last year, outstanding then and Paul’s words never rang truer, than they do sang by Rhiannon, I hear this completely different now, then I did at 12 years old. Bless you Rhiannon for making the words so true, this hits so differently, with War in Ukraine and Israel/Gaza. I pray for peace. Part of my family did come on the Mayflower, but many of my ancestors immigrated in the late 1800’s, through Ellis Island. My grandmother’s uncle, Austin Glenn, was a Pastor, and he was hung in Texas for preaching Emancipation of slaves, his sons carried on.

A Master songwriter with master singer

Beautiful version of this song. The piano opening is absolutely stunning. Thanks for uploading, and of course, THANKS to Bruce for the magic

So beautiful I have no words. It sounds not as if you've mastered the guitar (though obviously you have) but as if you've freed it to make its own music.

She's an amazingly talented and beautiful woman.

My father was like God, He gave me an education, yes he did, and thank you my Father.

I’ve heard this song a thousand times and sang it hundreds of times. But this performance actually made me cry.

By allowing advertising by Donald Trump on this video, KZfaq is helping the cause of Fascism and dictatorship.

Precious to get to witness JCF's induction into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame. His music has influenced the greatest British folk performers of all time and he has influenced so many others including me. Whenever I got to see Bert Jansch or John Renbourn perform in my local area, I would always ask them to do a JCF cover. Everything, I was rewarded with Blues Run the Game, and on rarer occasions, Milk and Honey and Carnival. I believe I even got to witness Sandy Denny performing a Jackson song live in NY.

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So timely, and performed by two great musicians. Well done!

Saw them together many years ago at the New Paltz Craft Fair… I remember buying a cassette.

Awesome Jim

Simon slows it down considerably when he begins to really listen to this voice of such unbelievable quality.

Just WOW...Two of my favorite performers on stage together performing An American Tune. Historic.

She adds superfluous emotives to a song that already stands perfectly on its own great musical integrity and rightness. Not sure why Mr Simon went for this...

Outstanding!

Chills

This was on the radio in my truck can't get it out of my head had to play it

Will never hear this song the same way again. Respect.

When that beat drops <3

I have loved this song for many years, but I think I heard it for the first time again here.

This song had me in tears. So beautiful and heartfelt.

I saw Steve Goodman alone on stage in Hamburg Germany autumn 1976. Fantastic🎵🎶🎙

he's a briliant tallent.... Genious

Amazing and that lyrics change...❤why politics and corporations and those obscure people behind them cant take example and be like these two beautiful humans and artiss?😢

Wow.... Have loved Simon and Garfunkel since I was a child.....rarely has anyone else done the music justice....Bravo Rhiannon Giddens ! .....with all due credit to the back up band.

I have a lot of respect for Paul Simon love him then and now . wonderful life he has and we'll deserved to .just love him

Fabulous!!!!!

Meu pianista preferido, sou super fã, lindo e linda música, wonderful ❤

Wow! Was that great or what? Much love to all ❤

This reminds of when a young girl looses her innocence and becomes a woman her youth passes but maturity makes her more the wiser

Playing in the trailer in Tremors <3

the stuff 'America' needs

💙 “The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It’s better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.” Willie Dixon

🗽 "We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered." James Weldon Johnson ⚖ "That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes." Langston Hughes

Jar jar binx

I mean, man, we all knew the old Doom and gloom in the tomb theme, but this song was a chock to me back in the day, 'til RT and Danny played it in Stockholm quite some years ago, where no real depression could be sensed anywhere. Still like he meant, you ain't heard nothing yet. What does the name Patrick Higgins mean by the way - please explain to an ignorant? A human scavanger, vulture, a glue producer? Anyway, Sam Jones stands out in RT's portfolio, believe me there; nothing's really like that one - scary as fuck. Even grimmer than The end of the rainbow, imagine that...

Absolutely beautiful!!!

What's gone wrong? Roberts and his Citizen's uNited ruling, which for him was self enrichement. He betrayed our nation eight ways to Sunday: and now we have a court worthy of Putin's Russia.

Best performance of this song EVER!

Rhiannon Giddens is the apex of American Music! Love her work, scholarship, and wisdom!

Brilliant. The song goes deep. . Great performance. Paul Simon will be played a hundred years from now.

Note: Music starts at 2:26.

Phew… I’ve known this song for forty years. But this time it hits me.

Well done, Rhiannon!

SOOO much to learn from this amazing singer - one would be that she sings the WORDS, it's not like there is music that words happened to be attached to, I see so many otherwise capable and talented singers mumbling or carelessly experimenting with the delivery, not this woman.

..."We didn't come here on the Mayflower, We came on a ship in a blood-red moon..". Thus made miss Giddens this a song for all who were involuntarily transported. Thank you miss Giddens.