Because if the Eagles done with Flamenco is good, Simon and Garfunkel must be great.

March 14, 2012 4:31 PM

I want more spanish guitar covers of popular american songs. Give them to me.

So I've been listening to the Gipsy Kings' Hotel California on repeat. I love that song. What other examples of stuff like that can you give me with pop songs from the USA?

posted by rileyray3000 to media & arts (10 answers total)

You night like the California Guitar Trio, who do Bohemian Rhapsody among others. No lyrics but the style is similar.
posted by Yorrick at 4:42 PM on March 14, 2012

How about some acoustic Portuguese versions of David Bowie songs?
posted by jamaro at 4:48 PM on March 14, 2012

Born This Way

Rolling in the Deep

All Along The Watchtower

Karma Police

I Want It That Way
posted by timsteil at 4:56 PM on March 14, 2012

Rodigo y Gabriela

cover of Metallica's Orion

cover of Stairway to Heaven
posted by jclovebrew at 5:25 PM on March 14, 2012 [1 favorite]

Most things by Igor Presnyakov? Not flamenco, but a badass of classical guitar.
posted by Rube R. Nekker at 5:38 PM on March 14, 2012

Jose Feliciano's "Light My Fire" charted almost as high as The Doors' version.
posted by Sys Rq at 5:44 PM on March 14, 2012

Heavy Mellow:
Nothing Else Matters (Metallica)
I am a Viking (Yngwie Malmsteen)

James Clarkston:
Freebird!

related cover - not flamenco guitar: Brad Mehldau does Blackhole Sun - reminiscent of Vince Guaraldi
posted by Nanukthedog at 9:52 PM on March 14, 2012

Rod y Gab doing stairway.
posted by jeffamaphone at 10:27 PM on March 14, 2012

Seu Jorge is Portuguese but does a bit of this style of thing. (If you saw The Life Aquatic, he's the guy singing David Bowie covers.) His other music is great too.
posted by tchemgrrl at 6:08 AM on March 15, 2012

Well, there's Mariachi El Bronx's cover of Prince's "I Would Die 4 U."
posted by Atom12 at 10:10 AM on March 15, 2012