Country Dreamer (arr. BDJ)
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English - January 06, 2014 00:00 - 2 minutes - 4.05 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMusic beatles remixes lennon mccartney harrison mash-up Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
"Country Dreamer" is the B-side song to the single "Helen Wheels" released by Paul McCartney and Wings on 26 October 1973 in the UK and 12 November 1973 in the US.
It is a pleasant acoustic song, it was not on an LP at the time. It has since been included as bonus track on the CD re-issue of Band On The Run, so that completists can easily find it these days.
It was recorded in October 1972, and its country ambiance is similar to "Heart of the Country" from Paul McCartney's 1971 album Ram.
Unfortunately, it was produced similarly to Hellen Wheels, rather like a rock song, with sloppy double tracked vocals. Furthermore, Paul seems to have trouble singing in key, starting the song in a very low voice, shifting to a rock voice just above his range.
Fortunately, there is a 'home recording', of Paul demo-ing this song on acoustic guitar. It was apparently recorded during a photo-shoot, Linda is audible chatting away, and her Kodak makes distinctive clicks.
However, in a suitable arrangement, these intrusions can be easily overlooked. Hence, we added more guitars, piano, a trumpet, bass, drums and a fiddle; that's a real country atmosphere.
Once you've heard this production, you'll never go back to the Band on the Run version.