I understand what most of you are saying about bringing your own interpretation to a song.......but.....I think it can be taken too far, and the result is a 'bastardization' of the original. Even though Jeri says she would be pleased to hear a reggae version of one of her songs, this was not how Stephen Foster felt (and IMO rightly so) when he heard what the minstral shows did to Swannee River (Old Folks at Home). They jazzed it up double time to dance a two-step shuffle to it...he wrote it as a sad plantation song. (But then he later wrote My Old Kentucky Home for a plantation song! and a great one I might add.)