Messin with The Kid by Colorado Blues

"Louie Louie" is an American rhythm and blues song written by Richard Berry in 1955 and best known for the 1963 hit version by The Kingsmen. It has become a standard in pop and rock, with hundreds of versions recorded by different artists. The song was originally written and performed in the style of a Jamaican ballad. It tells, in simple verse–chorus form, the first-person story of a Jamaican sailor returning to the island to see his lady love.

Ruth Israel & Her Band covers Cant Wait by Foreigner

Inside Information is the sixth studio album by the British-American rock band Foreigner, released on December 8, 1987. The album hit #15 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart and was certified Platinum in the U.S. for sales exceeding one million copies. Although a huge standard by any country's charting method, the band's sales were certainly plummeting since the release of 4 in 1981. It was the last album to feature the 80's core lineup of Gramm, Jones, Wills and Elliott.

"Say You Will" was released as the album's first single. Allmusic later noted that the single was a "good example" of the band's "balancing act" as "the guitar-heavy style of their early work gave way to slick arrangements that pushed electronics to the fore...temper(ing) its rock guitar edge...and Lou Gramm's quasi-operatic vocals...by thick layers of chiming synthesizers and an array of electronic textures."[2] The single reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became their fourth #1 hit on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, holding the top spot for four weeks. The song also became the band's third-highest charting hit in Germany, where it reached #22, faring even better in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and particularly Norway, where it reached #4. A rare CD single featured an extended remix version of the track.

The second single, "I Don't Want to Live Without You", reached #5 on the Hot 100. Markedly softer than any of their work to date, the record was their first and only #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, after the more rousing ballads "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "I Want to Know What Love Is" had reached #5 and #3 on that chart respectively. Allmusic would later observe that while "the end result lacked the distinctive rock touches of past Foreigner ballads," Lou Gramm "contributes a lead vocal that avoids histrionics in favor of an emotional but very smooth delivery" over "washes of synthesizer...fleshed out by some meditative electric piano riffs".[3] Nevertheless, the song charted at mainstream rock radio, where it peaked at #18. The #5 Hot 100 peak was their best showing in six singles, yet despite being followed up by more impassioned, up-tempo material it would be their last major pop hit to date.

Further singles from the album included "Heart Turns to Stone", which had peaked at #7 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in an earlier non-commercial release only to rock radio but only managed #56 on the Hot 100 several months later, and the harder "Can't Wait", which matched the #18 Mainstream Rock Tracks charting of "I Don't Want to Live Without You" but failed to crack the Hot 100.[4] "Out of the Blue" was also released as a single, but it did not chart. However, it was notable for being the only song in the band's catalogue to be credited to all four members from the classic 80's lineup. The following year saw a successful solo album and singles from Lou Gramm and found Mick Jones releasing an album and producing for artists including Billy Joel.

Having FUN @ShadowMountainRecordingStudio with Ruth Israel, The Green Cats, Jerry & Jack, Bobby Sawdust and Me and My Son !!

Our version of "Born Under a Bad Sign", written by Stax Records rhythm and blues singer William Bell with music by Stax bandleader Booker T. Jones (of Booker T. & the M.G.'s).

Bell recalled, "We needed a blues song for Albert King ... I had this idea in the back of my mind that I was gonna do myself. Astrology and all that stuff was pretty big then. I got this idea that [it] might work. "The lyrics describe "hard luck and trouble" tempered by "wine and women", with wordplay in the chorus in the turnaround:

Born under a bad sign, been down since I began to crawl

If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all

One HECK of A Good Time !!

Everybody's heard and played GLORIA (written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and originally recorded by Morrison's band Them in 1964 and released as the B-side of "Baby, Please Don't Go")

This version included Angels From Venezuela, The Green Cats backing Ruth Israel's Band, Once Removed at Shadow Mountain Recording Studio.

What a really FUN version.

Thanks for listening!

For Your Love !

"Good Morning, School Girl" is a blues standard which has been identified as an influential blues song. Pre-war Chicago blues vocalist and harmonica pioneer John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson first recorded it in 1937. Subsequently, a variety of artists have recorded versions of the song, usually calling it "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl".

This is our rendition, featuring Ruth Israel, Vocals

Patrick McAllister, Guitar & Vocals

Jack Herndon, Harmonica

Caleb McAllister, Guitar

Veronica Caraballo, Bass

Carman Parra, Percussion

Bobby Sawdust Hankins, Drums

Adriana Lorenzi, Engineer

Frederick Woehler, Engineer

Shadow Mountain Rehearsal / Recording Studio Session

Having a little fun with Born Under a Bad Sign

An Original Song - written by Patrick McAllister, Colorado Blues, is about moving away from Colorado for work and looking forward to the day we could move back.

Colorado is where I met my wife, Dana - and we've been together now for 35 years -- more than 1/2 my life...

Colorado, to me, is the most beautiful place to live -- and it is where I met my Baby !! :-)

COLORADO BLUES ( Key of B – Standard 1,4,5)

Well I went back, to the Country

I went back, to where I needed to be

I went back to the Country

That’s where I met my Baby

Well I went back, to the Country

I went back, to where I needed to be

I went back to the Country

That’s where I met my Baby

Well we moved to Chicago,

Got to hear – Chicago Blues

Moved back to Colorado

Now we’re bringing them Blues to you.

So if you go to Chicago

You got to go hear Chicago Blues

Corky Siegel took Chamber Music

And combined it with Chicago Blues

We got Boys from Colorado

Patrick playing Guitar for You

Vero, she's our Bass Gal

And me, I sing the Blues

Well I went back, to the Country

I went back, to where I needed to be

I went back to the Country

That’s where I met my Baby

- Jam -

Here’s a sound that we’re playing for you,

Colorado Mountains and Chicago Blues

Playing for you, in the Mountains

We Love Colorado Blues

I Can't Wait by Colorado Blues