Their website contains some wonderful gems including among other delights a performance of “It’s all over now” with Old Crowe Medicine Show. Marley’s Ghost is an extraordinary band, and really worth discovering if you don’t know them. I’ll finish with Marley’s Ghost who manage to find harmonies that others have missed along the way. (The other wonder is that the spell checker on my computer doesn’t throw a fit at the word Byrdyness!) But the wonder if this version is that the band keep their Byrdyness and yet manage to keep much of the essence of Dylan’s song. That sound is now so familiar one only has to hear a bar to know who it is. Of course, I’ll have to include the Byrds giving the song the real Byrds treatment. I also like the way the accordion is used effectively and sparingly.Īnd the use of two vocalists – none of this moves me as the Lundgren version does, but it is enjoyable and so worth hearing. But at the same time they retain that extraordinary rhythmic change that is at the heart of the tune.
Putting a bounce into this song sounds on the face of it a horrible idea, but the band make it work because they have no pretensions to be anything other than they are. I also like the game they have played with the album cover – which I am sure you will get without me spelling it out.Īfter that there is no point trying to find a version of the song that rivals Ms Lundgren so I’m moving to something utterly different: Jessica Rhaye and The Ramshackle Parade. In the album liner notes, Dylan claims that in the song he was trying to capture the feeling of a Scottish ballad he had just heard on a 78 rpm record. He originally recorded it for his album The Times They Are a-Changin', but it was not released until 1985 on the Biograph box set.
#Lay down your weary tune the byrds series
I would count this as one of the best finds in this whole meandering series of Dylan cover. 'Lay Down Your Weary Tune' is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1963.
The unexpected rhythmic change of the second verse, the way the melody meanders, the move from 4/4 to 2/4 and out again at unexpected moments – it is just extraordinary.
“Lay down your weary tune” is a song that has many opportunities to excite in its musical construction and this cover version embraces these to perfection.
#Lay down your weary tune the byrds license
G C G Lay down your weary tune lay down lay Em D down the song you strum G And rest yourself neath the strength of C G D G strings no voice can hope to hum G C G Struck by the sounds before the sun Em D I knew the night had come G C The morning breeze like. Song Add cover Report error Lay Down Your Weary Tune Written by Bob Dylan Language English ISWC T-070.250.050-2 JASRAC Licensing Request a synchronization license This composition was licensed with the help of SecondHandSongs on Novemfor a American folk album. I don’t think that everyone gets this effect, but if you do, there is a chance that the version of “Lay down your weary tune” that follows could do it to you. Cifrado: Principal (guitarra y guitarra eléctrica) Favoritar Cifra. Not just down my spine, but through my whole body. Sometimes I hear a performance and it literally (and I literally mean “literally”) sends shivers through my body.
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