Lyr Req: I'll Play the Blues for You (Albert King)

Subject: I'll just sing the blues for you?
From: GUEST,Anton from Slovenia
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 10:47 AM

Hi! Can someone help me? I can't find the title of love song with this line of text in it: I'll just sing the blues for you. And then is this long play with electric guitar.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'll just sing the blues for you?
From: Rob-IL
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 12:33 PM

The song is by Albert King and its called "I'll Play The Blues For You part 1 and 2"(He only played parts 3 and 4 at live shows..) It is on his Greatest Hits CD, which is a FANTASTIC cd if you dig the blues... or you can find it on a House of Blues compilation cd "Essential Blues" its the one with the blue cover... hope this helps... i dont know all the lyrics off hand though... good luck

Subject: Lyr Add: I'LL PLAY THE BLUES FOR YOU (from A King)
From: Ed Pellow
Date: 16 Apr 00 - 12:44 PM

The lyrics go something like this...

I 'll play the blues for you

If you're down and out and you feel real hurt
Come on over to the place where I work
And all your loneliness I'll try to soothe
I'll play the blues for you

Don't be afraid come on in
You might run across some of your old friends
All your loneliness I gotta soothe
I'll play the blues for you

I got no big name and I ain't no big star
I play the blues for you on my guitar
All your loneliness I'll try to soothe
I 'll play the blues for you

Ed

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'll just sing the blues for you?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 12 Jun 03 - 11:40 PM

Various sites say "I'll Play the Blues for You" was written by Jerry Beach. An mp3 file of a performance by the Jerry Beach Band can allegedly be heard at this page, but it didn't work for me.

AMG lists about 35 albums that contain a performance by Albert King, and about 20 that contain performances by other people.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'll just sing the blues for you?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 13 Jun 03 - 03:53 AM

Funnily enough, at Jagz last night Sam Kelly's new band Primo Blu opened with guitarist TJ Johnson singing that very song. Sorry, I didn't transcribe it!
Despite the title and the blues credentials of Sam (who's played with everyone including Sonny Black, Papa George and Glenn Headley)and TJ, the band played mostly soul clasics which Herself would have loved if she'd come with me (that'll larn 'er)sung by an excellent young singer, Loretta something (like a skinny Ruby Turner),who Sam met while he was playing in the pit band for "125th Street".

RtS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'll just sing the blues for you?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 13 Jun 03 - 04:22 AM

Sorry, spelled the girl's name wrong, here's her details from the 125th St show site:
LAURETTA NKWOCHA
Sheri

"You seduce your way, I'll seduce mine. I ain't never had no complaints"

Lauretta trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama

Theatre: La Venexiana (The Etcetera Theatre), Macbeth (ESC Tour), To Kill A Mockingbird (National Tour), The Little Shop Of Horrors (New Victoria Theatre, Stoke) Beauty And The Beast (New Vic, Stoke)
Film and TV: The Story Makers (BBC), Virtuality (Virtuality Films), Ed Stone Is Dead (Initial Films), One Sunday Morning (Edinburgh Festival), Panchreston (Festivals), Big Kids (BBC TV), The Bill (Thames TV), Miami-7 (Initial TV), 70's Soul Top 10 (Chrysalis TV)

RtS
(I needed a cold shower when I got home,I hope she didn't catch a cold in that vestigial dress!)

Subject: Lyr Add: THERE'S GOTTA BE A CHANGE (G Collins)
From: Merritt
Date: 17 Jun 03 - 11:36 AM

I'm familiar with a variant of this song that is credited to Gwendolynn Collins, wife of the late, great Albert Collins. She calls the song Gotta Be A Change or There's Gotta Be A Change. The verses fit a standard 12-bar blues medium-tempo chord structure. The brief bridge (in key of E) climbs and then drops along lines of E/E7/A/Bb/E-B7-E. I play this on guitar in "E" w/ capo on the second fret, i.e., F# and it works well as an alternating bass finger-picking tune.

Here are the lyrics I can hear on Johnny Lang's cover of the song:

THERE'S GOTTA BE A CHANGE (Gwendolynn Collins)

Oh, there's got to be a change
Things just can't stay the same (repeat)
If I got any worse off
I'd have myself to blame

I've played the blues so long now
There ain't nothin' left for me to do (repeat)
I just can't give it up
If I do my life would be through

BRIDGE: Well now I've been to Kentucky, Chicago too
All over St. Louis, ain't nothin left to do
But I'll play the blues for you

Well I've been down to Texas
To the end of the national revenue
I ain't got no money now, honey now
Ain't nothin' left to do
Well I'll play the blues for you


- Merritt