Over The Rainbow :: Down By The River (1969-2024)

Over The Rainbow :: Down By The River (1969-2024)We closed out All One Song Season Two this week with a BIG song (“Down by the River”) and a BIG guest (Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo) … so let’s bring things to a crashing finale with a BIG bootleg bonus. What we’ve got today for you true sickos (you know who you are!) is a three-and-a-half-hour “Down by the River” megamix I’ve thrown together, featuring 55 years worth of live performances of the song. Sound quality varies as it tends to! Only the strong will survive. There’s a lot of Crazy Horse, naturally, but also the Stray Gators, the International Harvesters, Booker T and the M.G.’s, and the Promise of the Real (as well as a handful of solo versions, both acoustic and electric). In terms of pure epic-ness, POTR come out on top with a 35+-minute rendition that opened a Memphis show back in 2016. What a ride. The whole thing is one big file, encouraging you to just get fully hypnotized by the Em7 > A chord change that takes up most of…