day 218: Down The Highway

Down The Highway, by Bob Dylan.

This is another one of those moments where I’ve tuned to something weird-ish (Double Dropped D, in this case), and mess around with songs in that tuning until I find something viable. I was down there for Blue Ridge Mountains (Fleet Foxes), which I’m not ready to record yet, despite plans to be in those precise hills next week. Then I gave The Chain (Fleetwood Mac) a shot, which has wholeheartedly been on my list since I listened to one of those song-deconstruction podcast episodes about it. Then I gave the Dylan Chords site a browse, and found this song, which I only vaguely recognized, but it doesn’t really matter, because it’s one of those open chord Dylan blues things, and in open D? I can handle that.

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Had to stop and start when the computer fell asleep, so there’s a small edit and transitions, but I’m still not ready to pull out Garageband and try to produce anything elaborate.

Oh, and I drew this out like two more minutes longer than the Dylan version?