Originally posted 2009-02-20 23:52:50.
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As I always say, it’s never too soon for another Bob Dylan cover video! Personally, I’ve attempted to restrain myself from recording a comfortable, enjoyable Dylan cover this year. However, tonight’s installment of the Guest Sessions is a Dylan cover song music video with an interesting twist.
First of all, this is a song from Dylan’s 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home. This is perhaps one of his best albums, and it was a transition point for him, half of the album being full band renditions and the other half being classic acoustic-only compositions. (For his next album, Highway 61 Revisited, he would dive deeply into the world of electric rock…)
So far, I’ve recorded two covers from this album — “Subterranean Homesick Blues” for the members-only area of the site and “Love Minus Zero/No Limit.” No one here has yet dared to take on the more noteworthy songs, such as “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” or the song that the Byrds launched to chart success, “Mr. Tambourine Man.” This being said, I was truly impressed with the apparent ease with which Stan Denski, our guest tonight, played “She Belongs to Me.” Granted, this is a fairly straightforward song, but he changed the tuning and plays in an interesting fashion. His version is true to the original, yet very much his own and sung well.
Thank you, Stan, for sending this very entertaining video!
I’ll let him introduce the video — Stan writes,
This is a cover of Bob Dylan’s “She Belongs To Me.” It is played on an old Guild 12-string tuned to an open D and played by barring chords from the top of the neck which allows the highest strings to ring open and create diminished chords. It also uses a lot of harmonics struck at the 12th fret.
I was showing a friend how to play this version and he videotaped it and, later, stuck it up on YouTube.
Stan Denski, Indianapolis
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- “I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)” (Bob Dylan electric cover) – The Guest Sessions [Ep 2, Fall 2011]
- “All Along the Watchtower” (A Bob Dylan Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
- “Odds and Ends” (Bob Dylan Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
- “Must Be Santa” (Bob Dylan / Christmas Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
- Bob Dylan’s “Another Side of Bob Dylan” (1964) – The Weekend Review
This is one in a series of acoustic cover songs, original music, and free mp3 downloads here on the Laptop Sessions Music Video Blog.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:12 am
Jim and Chris know I am not the biggest Dylan fan, but I love when I hear a song or version that is so easy on the ears!