Get Thy Bearings - Donovan

[ODH]

It slowly dawned on me that I didn't know anything about Donovan so I spent a while on Apple Music listening to his stuff. First there were more tracks I knew that I thought I did (in my head it was only Mellow Yellow) and second I actually really like ("dig") a lot of what I heard.

This is one I'd not heard before. This is as faithful as I could get it. It's an upbeat lyric with a gloomy backer, right up my street. The song has an unusual structure and has a lot of jazz stylings (also right up my street). It's from the Hurdy Gurdy album.

Here we have acoustic guitar, drums and double bass off of GarageBand and saxophone from ThumbJam (which was a challenge, I'm not gonna lie).

It's called Get Thy Bearings although he never uses the word Thy in the song.

[Jean Pierre]

Belle reprise,
Donovan developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelic rock and world music.
I really like the jazzy Donovan (I covered Sunny Goodge Street)
I would have liked to do that one too...but you did it very well.

[StephenM]

Don't know this one but it sounds real good... I like the bass sounds and the winds... a cool vibe you did here.

[TPB]

sounds good but also a heard cover to ull off but you have done it in spades
Well done
Tim

[Mike_S]

When this started playing I was thinking wow that is moody/dark and very cool. Very well done Nick and I will have to start thinking about this fest at some point. You have shown the merits of Donovan here very well.

Mike

[godinqc]

I really liked this song, the jazzy vibe to it was excellent.
But I must admit I had never heard this song before .. But it sounded great ..