G.E. Smith, LeRoy Bell Team for Rugged 'Black Is the Color'
have shared a rugged take on the traditional folk ballad, “Black Is the Color,” that will appear on their debut album together,The age-old track originated in Scotland before making its way to the United States, where it became a staple of Appalachian folk music.
Smith and Bell’s new version boasts a simmering blues-rock groove that allows Smith to work his guitar from a tiptoe to a full-on sprint, while Bell bellows the lovelorn lyrics, “Black is the color of my true love’s hair/Her lips are like some roses fair/The prettiest face and the daintiest hands/I love the ground on where she stands.” The pair released an animated lyric video to accompany the song, which was created by Gary Smith. The clip finds a pair of hands typing out the lyrics to the song as if they were a love letter to the woman in the picture by the typewriter.. Between 1985 and 1995, Smith served as the musical director at, while he’s also played with Bob Dylan, Roger Waters, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, and Hall and Oates. Bell, meanwhile, was part of the soul duo Bell and James and he’s worked as a songwriter for artists as varied as Elton John and Teddy Pendergrass, Jennifer Lopez and the Three Degrees. In 2011, his band, LeRoy Bell and His Only Friends, were
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