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"I Dig Love" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released on his 1970 triple album ''All Things Must Pass''. A paean to free love, it marks a departure from the more profound, spiritually oriented subject matter of much of that album. Musically, the song reflects Harrison's early experimentation with slide guitar, a technique that he was introduced to while touring with Delaney & Bonnie and Friends in December 1969. Typically of much of the material on ''All Things Must Pass'', the recording features an extended line-up of musicians, including three guitarists, two drummers and three keyboard players. Among the musicians were former Delaney & Bonnie band members Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock and Dave Mason, along with Billy Preston and Ringo Starr. The song was co-produced by Phil Spector and recorded in London. Given the high standard of Harrison's songwriting on ''All Things Must Pass'', commentators and biographers have generally held "I Dig Love" in low regard and consider it to be the album's weakest track. Indian singer Asha Puthli and American band the Black Crowes have both covered the song. Part of Puthli's version was sampled by British rapper Kano for his 2005 track "Reload It". ==Background== Like "Woman Don't You Cry for Me" and "Sue Me, Sue You Blues", "I Dig Love" originated from George Harrison's initial experimentation with slide-guitar playing, in open E tuning.〔Harrison, pp. 172, 234.〕 His introduction to this technique occurred in December 1969, when he joined Eric Clapton as a guest on Delaney & Bonnie's European tour.〔Clayson, pp. 278–80.〕〔Miles, pp. 360–62.〕 In his autobiography, ''I Me Mine'', Harrison recalls that Delaney Bramlett "handed me a bottleneck slide and asked me to play a line which Dave Mason had played on the (Home' ) record",〔Harrison, p. 172.〕 since Mason had recently quit the tour.〔Clayson, p. 279.〕〔John Harris, "A Quiet Storm", ''Mojo'', July 2001, p. 70.〕 With Harrison travelling without his wife, Pattie Boyd, the Delaney & Bonnie tour revealed an aspect of his persona that was at odds with his public image as the Beatle most preoccupied with Eastern religion and spirituality.〔 Despite Harrison's strong ties to the Hare Krishna movement, whose core principles espoused a life of abstinence,〔Clayson, pp. 267–68, 298–99.〕 Bramlett later recalled him "let() his hair down" on the tour,〔 in a manner reminiscent of the Beatles' pre-fame years in Hamburg.〔Leng, pp. 66–67.〕 With regard to the inclusion of "I Dig Love" on Harrison's first post-Beatles solo album, ''All Things Must Pass'', author Simon Leng describes it as an "unusually libidinous detour", similar to the "brief sensory interlude" offered by the track "Let It Down".〔Leng, pp. 91, 97.〕 Leng notes that the composition is one of the few that Harrison fails to either discuss in his autobiography or include in the two-volume ''Songs by George Harrison''; this repeated omission, Leng concludes, "perhaps suggests what its writer ultimately thought of (song )".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I Dig Love」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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