Cream (Clapton, Bruce, Baker)

Cream est un groupe de rock britannique des années 1960 composé du guitariste Eric Clapton, du bassiste Jack Bruce et du batteur Ginger Baker. (Suite sur Wikipedia)

"Disraeli Gears" fait toujours partie de mes disques de chevet, je ne m'en lasserai jamais! Vous trouverez ici trois morceaux de cet album, dont l'inoubliable "Sunshine of Your Love", devenu un standard incontournable du rock-blues des seventies. "I feel free" est extrait du tout premier vynil, "Fresh Cream", et les deux derniers morceaux proviennent du troisième album, "Wheels of Fire".(Crossroads est une version "live")






Sunshine of your love

It's getting near dawn,
When lights close their tired eyes.
I'll soon be with you my love,
To give you my dawn surprise.
I'll be with you darling soon,
I'll be with you when the stars start falling.

I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love.

I'm with you my love,
The light's shining through on you.
Yes, I'm with you my love,
It's the morning and just we two.
I'll stay with you darling now,
I'll stay with you till my seas are dried up.

I've been waiting so long
I've been waiting so long
I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love.

Steppenwolf : The pusher

The Pusher, by Steppenwolf

You know I've smoked a lot of grass
O' Lord, I've popped a lot of pills
But I never touched nothin'
That my spirit could kill
You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'round
With tombstones in their eyes
But the pusher don't care
Ah, if you live or if you die

God damn, The Pusher
God damn, I say The Pusher
I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man

You know the dealer, the dealer is a man
With the love grass in his hand
Oh but the pusher is a monster
Good God, he's not a natural man
The dealer for a nickel
Lord, will sell you lots of sweet dreams
Ah, but the pusher ruin your body
Lord, he'll leave your, he'll leave your mind to scream

God damn, The Pusher
God damn, God damn the Pusher
I said God damn, God, God damn The Pusher man

Well, now if I were the president of this land
You know, I'd declare total war on The Pusher man
I'd cut him if he stands, and I'd shoot him if he'd run
Yes I'd kill him with my Bible and my razor and my gun

God damn The Pusher
Gad damn The Pusher
I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man

(Pusher : vendeur d'Héroine; Dealer : vendeur de Marihuana)

Frank Zappa, Gotlib, Solé : Stink-Foot

Tout le monde sera bien d'accord avec le fait qu'il n'y a pas de "bonnes" ni de "mauvaises" odeurs, il n'y a que des odeurs plus ou moins fortes, alors, pourquoi diable entend-on dire parfois :"tu pues des pieds!"...L'ami Zappa nous offre avec "Stink-Foot", un morceau en forme de blues déjanté, une variation personnelle sur ce vaste sujet, illustrée par les non moins amicaux Solé et Gotlib.

Jimi Hendrix : Bold as love

"Bold As Love"

Anger, he smiles,
towering in shiny metallic purple armour
Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him
Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground

Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted,
They quietly understand
Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready,
But wonder why the fight is on
But they're all bold as love, yeah, they're all bold as love
Yeah, they're all bold as love
Just ask the axis

My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war,
and ribbons of euphoria
Orange is young, full of daring,
But very unsteady for the first go round
My yellow in this case is not so mellow
In fact I'm trying to say it's frigthened like me
And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from, eh,
Giving my life to a rainbow like you
But, I'm eh , yeah, I'm bold as love
Yeah, yeah
Well I'm bold, bold as love (hear me talking, girl)
I'm bold as love
Just ask the axis (he knows everything)

Jack Bruce with the BBC Big Band : Spoonful

Personnel:

Jack Bruce (vocals, bass)

Gary Husband (drums)

Justin Quinn (guitar)

The BBC Big Band conducted by Jorg Achim Keller

I'm sitting on top of the world

I'm sitting on top of the world

One summer day, she went away

Gone and left me, she's gone to stay.

She's gone, but I don't worry,

I'm sittin' on top of the world.

All the summer, worked on this farm

Had to take Christmas in my overalls.

She's gone, but I don't worry,

I'm sittin' on top of the world.

Going down to the freight yard,

Gonna catch me a freight train.

Gonna leave this town,

Work done got to hard.

She's gone, but I don't worry,

I'm sittin' on top of the world.

Redbone

Janis Joplin : Ball and Chain

C'était en 2014 : Christmas Blues - Blues de Noël

Noël en blues, pourquoi pas ? Alors voici «Christmas blues»...

...et le «Blues de Noël»

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Shri play the blues (sur des textes de Lee Lozowick)