She Belongs To Me - written by Bob Dylan - performed by The Unsung Heroes

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"She Belongs to Me" is a song by Bob Dylan that was written in 1964 and released on his Bringing It All Back Home album, which came out in March 1965. The album marked an important point in Dylan's career, as it was his first to feature electric instrumentation and began his shift from his folk roots to a more rock-oriented sound.

As for the song itself, "She Belongs to Me" is often interpreted as a love song, but its cryptic lyrics leave it open to all kinds of interpretation. Dylan has never fully disclosed who the song is about, which has led to various speculations. Some fans and critics have suggested that it may be about Dylan's then-wife, Sara Lownds, although there is no definitive evidence to confirm this. It seems as if the song could also be seen as reflecting on Dylan's complex views on women and relationships as his history with women in those early days of his career were often filled with lots of rough edges. This appears to be in large part due to the artistic ambitions of the women he was involved with combined with his own strong ambitions; the combination not leaving much time and space for anything else.

The Unsung Heroes just sort of fell into this song one night at a gig and we decided we all enjoyed playing it... nothing more, nothing less. We think it's a great tune and also maybe a bit of a relatively unknown (and unsung) song, especially being a Dylan tune. So we decided to give it a little kick to help keep it in the public's consciousness.

The Unsung Heroes Band consists of:

Rick Watson: lead and harmony vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, Hammond B3, mandolin and 5 string banjo
Rob Kneeland: lead and harmony vocals, drums, acoustic guitar and mandolin
Bruce Derr: harmony vocals, pedal steel, dobro, acoustic and electric guitar and electric bass.
Todd Robertson: lead and harmony vocals, upright and electric bass, acoustic guitar and trumpet.

The Unsung Heroes Band is an American roots and country music group based in the Seacoast area of Southern New Hampshire and Maine. We combine elements of old-school country, bluegrass, folk, blues, Americana and other roots genres, while trying to create a sound that is truly our own. We are a band that currently plays shows mostly in our local area, but with an intention to expand our geographical radius and musical goals to include festival and concert venues all around New England.

However, another major focus of our band is to use our beautiful new audio/video facility to record and film many new song videos just like this one and also to begin a regular live-streaming series in the next few months. Our facility is called Stone House Studio and we record in the amazing looking and sounding Blind Mule Barn, which was hand-built over many years by our drummer and singer Rob Kneeland and named after his next door neighbor Jack, who is indeed a big old blind mule who greets everyone who shows up at the barn. We have spent much of the last few years researching, purchasing and then dialing in the technology to create what we hope will be world class audio and video content... as well as just great music. But it's still a work in progress.

Along with our own original music, a large part of our repertoire (and musical mission) is meant to promote and keep alive some of the lesser known songs of singer/songwriters like Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan, John Prine, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, etc. along with material from somewhat lesser household named artists like Guy Clark, Jesse Winchester, Ian Tyson, Tom Rush, Richard Thompson, Jonathan Edwards, John Starling, and many others. However, several of our favorite songwriters (and unsung heroes) are our personal friends who live nearby and who bless the beautiful Seacoast region with an amazing amount of great music. We plan to add many songs from these artist to our repertoire and our video archives in the coming months and years, along with bringing many of them in to join us for a live stream and/or music video shoot.

Our studio audio and video gear setup includes:

Microphones:
all 4 artists use Sennheiser E935 in our live show setup

Audio mixers:
Presonus 32sx, Presonus, 32sc, Motu Monitor 8, Motu AVB Switch

Computers:
Mac Studio M1 computer (running Motu Digital Performer 11, with full Waves plugin subscription, Davinci Resolve Studio video editing software), iMac 27" running Black Magic Design Atem control software

Cameras:
Eight Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema 4K Film Cameras into Blackmagic Design Atem Extreme ISO camera switcher and recorder.

Keyboards:
Hammond B3 with 2 Leslie 122 speakers, Yamaha Clavinova, Roland XV-88, Roland AT-60SL organ, and a working foot-pedal pump organ (and a few others).

Guitars, bass, amps: Too many to list but Rick's primary guitar rig is a 20 year old Variax 700 acoustic modeling guitar through a brand new Line 6 Helix. He also uses some older model Variax 'electric' guitars on some of our material.