A number of albums into her quest to add all major world music genres into her bossa nova repertoire, Japanese songbird Lisa Ono recorded Jambalaya, an album of American country music (as well as bluegrass and related regional sounds) re-imagined in a Brazilian format.
The similarity between some lighter fare (such as John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads") and bossa is made surprisingly clear as some songs seem hardly affected by the genre transition.
Other classics seem more out of place (such as "I'm an Old Cowhand"), but are treated respectfully and carefully by Ono.