Re: Dylan "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" cover

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Generally, I've not been a big fan of Dylan's Nashville Skyline LP
(or of country music generally) but I've been thinking that this
song has potential
as a more bluesy, upbeat tune. So I gave it a go:

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10896311

This is a pretty rough cut in terms of having a limited number of
takes and
very little in terms of post-recording processing: there's some EQ
and compression on the bass, acoustic guitar, and vocal tracks and
that's it. The only other "effect" is a volume pedal on the guitar
track that's panned
left. You'll hear the volume-pedal effect on that track in the
bridge and the instrumental break.

I may beef up the mix a bit with more post-processing but I wanted
to get some comments first.

Instruments: Gretsch Tennessean (panned left), Custom Hamburguitar
(slide; panned right), Seagull Artist Portrait Acoustic (2 tracks,
one fairly low in
the mix); Rick 4001 bass.

Drums: Superior Drummer 2, Custom & Vintage add-on.

Constructive criticism welcome! Thanks in advance.

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Excellent, I like it as much as Miss Twister, enough that I will
have a closer look at the melody lines.

The rhythm was a bit bouncy for my tastes, I know it is C&/orW, but I
would have had more rock and less boot scoot.

Thanks, Tony. I think I know what you're talking about with the
"bouncy". I'm thinking in the verses, I guess I've been looking at it
as more "choppy", too much differentiation between the rhythm there
and in the chorus and bridge.

Ah! I should have read this first! I see you used the same word "choppy" as
I did. Read my suggestion for a "fix" for that which I think you'll
surprisingly find will work.

I performed recently with an acoustic band I had put together and we did a
couple of bluegrass songs, a folk-rock tune, and a gypsy jazz tune in the
set. In ALL cases, I asked my bass player to use jazz-style 4-to-the-bar
walking bass lines and the whole band was surprised at how much more
contemporary and smoother it all sounded. And it worked in every case, and
especially enhanced the bluegrass tunes.


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