Canada Day bonus video for this, the 10th video in my series on my slow recovery of my banjo playing skills following a stroke 53 days ago that left my right hand and arm non-functional. (It actually has nothing to do with Canada Day except for the fact that the Montreal West Canada Day parade was winding its way past our house while I was recording this.) This video is a reflection of my frustration with the slow pace of my recovery of my clawhammer playing, such that I decided to rework what has always been, for me, a fairly complex clawhammer arrangement into a thumb lead 2 finger picking arrangement (given that I'm not even close yet to being able to play this clawhammer style).
Even though my fingerpicking is much further along in its recovery than my clawhammer, it turned out to be a much more daunting task than I had imagined it would be. It took 72 minutes of video to get a presentable version of this Bob Dylan song. This video jumps straight from the introduction to the final take, leaving a good hour of out-takes on the cutting room floor.
My version of Simple Twist of Fate usually includes a couple of alternate versions of stanzas, as Dylan sang them live with the Rolling Thunder Review. That remains true of the final two stanzas here, but I forgot to sing the alternate version of the stanza about waking up in the empty hotel room, though I had remembered it in every earlier take. Maybe it was just my subconscious desire to make the song shorter so that I might actually get to the end of it, after so many failed attempts!
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