Tim Heidecker records a Dylan cover with The Earth Is A Man, “doesn’t really know why”
Eric Wareheim and Tim Heidecker
Tim Heidecker, one half of the duo behind the oddball warp-fest Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie, recently spent an afternoon in the basement of local experimental act The Earth Is A Man. Of this fruitful union was born a dreamy cover of Bob Dylan’s “All The Tired Horses,” the head-scratcher of an opening track from Dylan’s head-scratcher of a 1970 album, Self-Portrait. This is fitting, because the entire occurrence seems to be something of a head-scratcher for Heidecker.
“I hope you enjoy it! I don’t really know why I did it!! Donate to Amnesty International today,” Heidecker wrote on his blog, where the track is available for streaming.
Inspired by the new Amnesty International benefit album of Dylan covers, Chimes Of Freedom, Heidecker took it upon himself to record a homemade Dylan cover of his own. The rogue musician/sketch comedian soon found his laptop to be an inadequate recording partner, and posted a request for a backing band and recording studio on Twitter. The “young gents” of The Earth Is A Man heeded the call and hosted Heidecker in their home in Wicker Park last Saturday to lay down “All The Tired Horses.” Okay, then.
