Nick: How do musical genres interweave?

Like beach sand:

Country & Western: Chet Atkins first cover of Yellow Bird is the old French-Caribbean berceuse presented in an American exotica arrangement as Caribbean Guitar.

Bluegrass: A few years later Atkins covered it a third time as a member of The Nashville String Band (w/Homer & Jethro & Co..) It's what one might expect from that lineup but with a full string section arrangement by Suzi Ragsdale's uncle John. It's certainly not the,

Jazz: of Jamaican Monty Alexander or the,

Showtunes: of Inia Te Wiata or Rita & Sakura who sound nothing like the,

Folk: Seeger & Stringsinger cover of that same French melody they adapted directly from the,

Lounge: 'Original' which the Haitian-American composer took from the old D'Anjou,

Berceuse:.... rinse-repeat.