Showing posts with label Nico. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

“I’ll Keep It With Mine”


One of Bob Dylan's more intriguing songs, in treble time, whacked out on a tinny but strangely haunting piano, not commercially released at the time, was "I'll Keep it with Mine".
The un-commercially released version, informally recorded in the basement of Big Pink, seems not to have made it onto the internet.  Yet here is a creditable cover, in the affectless yet somehow affecting delivery of the German singer Nico:

Nico’s cover:
Her Thorazine voice  is here buoyed by unusually crisp orchestral accompaniment.

The lyrics don't really make sense;  but such is the seduction of the delivery (warm in Dylan's case, hypnotic-robotic in Nico's) that you are lulled or lured into a state of mind in which they seem to.

A possibly-Dylan  visuo-harmonica  teaser  (not the real thing):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U661OJN81B4

Dylan "demo tape" -- without the slow magical piano ...
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDHvoPMc-7A&NR=1&feature=endscreen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDHvoPMc-7A


Dylan indeed but -- a lousy version -- still looking for the good one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTkMttnKx4I

Another "demo" -- much better despite  murky acoustics;  still searching for the magical piano:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f60eJFV0Ftg