Category Archives: Lyrics

Blues Lyrics of the Week: April Fool Blues

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Mike

It’s been a while since we’ve featured a Blues Lyrics of the Week but we think you’ll agree that this is a good one considering the date on the calendar. From the self-dubbed “UK’s most experienced emerging R&B blues band” … Continue reading →

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Birthday BLOW-out: Howlin’ Wolf’s hidden charms

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Mike

When we looked at our calendar and realized that today was the anniversary of the birth of blues great Chester Arthur Burnett, a.k.a. Howlin’ Wolf (1910, West Point, Miss.), we knew we’d have to do something to commemorate the occasion. With so … Continue reading →

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Blues Lyrics of the Week: Gin House Blues

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Mike

This slow but soulful blues tune recorded by such artists as Nina Simone, The Animals, and British band Amen Corner is one of our new favorite old songs after hearing it again from Andy Fairweather Low and Eric Clapton at … Continue reading →

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Blues Lyrics of the Week: Pittsburgh Blues

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Mike

It’s been just over a year now since the passing of the Southern-born (some reports say Bessemer, Alabama; others, Vicksburg, Mississippi) but Pittsburgh-raised bluesman known as Louisiana Red. And although Red never did make it back to Pittsburgh after the … Continue reading →

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Blues Lyrics of the Week: Check Your Ego at the Door

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Mike

This may not be quite what blues guitar great Luther Allison had in mind when he said “Leave your ego, play the music, love the people,” but here’s one we’ve been enjoying from John Lee Hooker, Jr., and a Polish band called Daddy’s Cash, … Continue reading →

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Blues Lyrics of the Week: Tired of Bluesmen Cryin’

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Mike

Here’s one we’ve been meaning to get to for a while, the title track off bluesman Tas Cru‘s latest CD. Inspired by a comment from a young blues fan who “noted that she likes the blues but gets weary of bluesmen … Continue reading →

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Blues Lyrics of the Week: The Blues Rolls On

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Mike

Another year may be passed, but Elvin Bishop sure wasn’t fooling around when it came to writing the lyrics of this song, the title track off his 2008 The Blues Rolls On… “The blues is just a blessin’ from a long time ago, … Continue reading →

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Blues Lyrics of the Week: Thank You for Giving Me the Blues

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Mike

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, and some big name blues acts coming to town in the days just prior (Tommy Castro and his new band the Painkillers will be playing Moondog’s Tuesday night, while the King of the Blues himself, B.B. King, will grace … Continue reading →

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Blues Lyrics of the Week: Here I Am

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Mike

In celebration of British blues-rocker Oli Brown‘s mini-tour of the Northeast this month, here’s a closer look at the lyrics of the title track from Oli’s latest release, Here I Am. Both, we think you’ll find, are well worth checking … Continue reading →

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Blues Lyrics of the Week: September 11th Blues

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Mike

Ten years ago today, I had just boarded a morning flight in Baltimore when I heard the first report of a plane flying into the World Trade Center. Like so many others that day and in the days that followed, … Continue reading →

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