So might sign off the day with this beautiful version
The poster says:
Heard on BBC Radio 3 this morning...
Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love
Anna Lapwood, The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Who also says:
"I wrote this arrangement for the Pembroke College Chapel Choir; we were in the middle of a tricky term with emotions running high, and I wanted to write something to give them hope and bring them some joy! The piece starts soft and meditative – almost like a psalm – and gradually expands out, increasing in intensity until the big surprise towards the end. I was very conscious of not wanting it to feel like a ‘pop cover’, but instead thinking if this piece had been written for a choir, what might that have looked like. Listening back to this, I find it so moving realising that the arrangement is written with the specific voices of this choir in mind - it’s not just listening to a collection of voices, but listening to a group of friends."
You know my stand with Bob, but this sums up my regard of him. The songwriting is brilliant. His voice is not. But when someone takes his song and turns into something like this (or any other of the millions of covers) it's bloody good. And this is absolutley awesome IMHO. When that organ comes in. Jeeezzziiizzz. Love it Andy. Keep them coming, but not the originals 😉
ReplyDeleteI almost posted it solely for you Dave! My relationship with our Bob goes deep as you know of me also, from the beginnings when the stories of Times they Are album actually frightened and haunted me, to the drug fuelled period of Highway 61 and Blonde etc up to the crash when a mellow voiced Self Portrait and then a totally distinct and particularity of the narrative of John Wesley (still a favourite) right through the god bothering nonsense to the bluster of Before The Flood (another favourite - try 'Most Likely. . . ' one of the angriest relationship gone wrong songs EVER IMHO) then the stoned out bliss of Duquesne Whistle and Things Have Changed then but I grant you the work of later years with the gravel voiced weirdness is a challenge to most but the hardened fan and that he has done! BUT the writing is unique unequalled and peerless from Mr Tambourine Man to Murder Most Foul he has enticed and mesmerised me ever since and throughout . . . . gosh darn it I DO go on don’t I? You’re fighting a losing battle to put me off (and I’m a fan of The Christmas album!?!) ha ha ha ha
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