Hey Gyp, Donovan cover (...a time travel)

[Jean Pierre]

It is a kind of musical workshop through time, as the internet now allows.

The starting point is a Donovan song "Hey Gyp" from 1965
at the time I was 16 years old and my first guitar
I discovered Anglo-Saxon music with the Beatles, Cat stevens, stones...and Donovan
In this song I think it was the first time I heard diatonic harmonica played in "blues" mode, with alteration of  note (bending)

the second point is, after a little research on Wikipedia, the discovery that this Donovan song was strongly inspired by another song, much earlier (1930), "Can I Do It For You", a song by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy.the plaisure of playing open G)

The last point is the discovery of a version of this song in picking and open chord of Sol (just for pleasure of playing in openG)

So for the fun and the little story I mixed it all together

guitar with my Martin 000
harmonica Lee Oscar in C
 electro acoustic bass (born of an unknown father )

thanks for listening, guys

[danieldesete]

Great story and what a great listen,I loved it, thanks for sharing your knolegde and skills like that !

[Groundy]

Nice one JP, really well done...


Alex.

[Ferryman_1957]

Very interesting JP. You are slightly older than me but I grew up with Donovan, Cat Stevens and all the others because my brother (who was 5 years older than me) used to play them all on his acoustic guitar. I still have his hand-written exercise books in which he wrote down the chords and lyrics, no internet back then!

This is a really nice combination of those different elements and it works really well. Very enjoyable and took me back to my (and your) youth!

[Jean Pierre]

thank you guys

Ferryman you say

and took me back to my (and your) youth!

Yes, I unfortunately have an age that I don't deserve.

and

I still have his hand-written exercise books in which he wrote down the chords and lyrics, no internet back then!

I'm probably your brother, I have these notebooks too.           

[Redler]

Great job, JP! So well performed and the production is really professional! Enjoyable listening!