BeatlesFest : "I Want To Hold Your Hand"

[Bluesberry]

Well, I squeezed this one out tonight, couple of hours, no time to do any more on it.  Its as simple as I could make it.  I wanted to take one of the early rockers and re-imagine it in a folky version for fun.  I was listening to this song and it semed to have a folky essence down below the rock & Roll exterior. One stereo track with acoustic guitar,  one vocal track, one track for harmonica solo, a couple tracks for the ending harmony bit.  This may be my last one for a bit, I am off to the province of PEI in a few days for a week.

I Want To Hold Your Hand

acoustic guitar, harmonica
recorded into my microBR

[launched]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love this, bro! Talk about reconstruction of a classic - That's the way it should be!


You have a way about arranging songs and making them sound so good. I still listen to that Tull cover - Of your cover songs it's one of my favorites, and of course "Without You" is my favorite original of yours. And "Daydreams" is right there with that. I'd like to cover that some day.

You rule, bro!!! Love you, man!


Mark

[FuzzFace]

What a great rendition!

Really soulful performance!

I love it!


P.S. Enjoy the Birthplace of Confederation!!!  Ha ha!

[Ferryman_1957]

Neil Young does the Beatles! Great job Dave, superb interpretation and just lovely, sublime guitar playing - that really made it for me. Very well recorded acoustic as well. all the lovely touches in your playing are very well captured.

Cheers,

Nigel

[Jim1970]

This is Fantastic DAVE!
The Production sounds AWESOME.
Your Guitar Playing for this Gives me Shivers.
Vocals have a lot of feel and sound great!!
JIM

[Tony W]

Dave, I've given this three listens before commenting, Last night, this morning, and now. I love your rework of the song. It's so mellow and touching. Truly sung from the soul. I love it Dave, very creative.

[henwrench]

Gulp!!    Now this is good. This is mental. This is BB. The guitar playing and structure is absolutely first class.

                                           henwrench

[cuthbert]

Another interesting re-imagining from you, Dave. The lyrics have a yearning to them that is not at odds with folk songs, but musically this song changed the landscape so much when it was first released in 1964, that it's not a song one might normally think of in a different form -  but you have done it, and in your style.

I've really enjoyed what people have been bringing to this BeatlesFest. And there's more to come!

[Oldrottenhead]

bloody stunning bb love it yeah yeah yeah i love it

[Gritter]

Fantastic rendition! Your guitar sounds perfect and your phrasing is sweet and soulful.