Colorado Blues

I Feel So Bad (Chuck Willis song)

"I Feel So Bad" is a blues song written and originally recorded by Chuck Willis, and released in 1954 (OKeh 7029). It rose to No. 8 on the Billboard Rhythm & Blues Chart in early 1954, and appears on the album Chuck Willis Wails the Blues.

Elvis Presley recorded the song on March 12, 1961, in RCA Studio B, in Nashville, Tennessee, and released it as a single on RCA Victor that year.

Living in the COuntry (NCV) by Colorado Blues

"Sweet Home Chicago" is a blues standard first recorded by Robert Johnson in 1936. Although he is often credited as the songwriter, several songs have been identified as precedents. The song has become a popular anthem for the city of Chicago despite ambiguity in Johnson's original lyrics.

Rehearsal Session 09-03-22

Thomas Jay Hambridge (born December 20, 1960)[2] is an American rock, country, and blues, producer, songwriter, musician and vocalist. Hambridge has received two Grammy Awards, an ASCAP award, seven Grammy nominations, seven Boston Music Awards, and has been inducted into the Buffalo Hall of Fame. In December 2015, Tom was given the key to his hometown of Buffalo, NY with Mayor Byron Brown declaring December 28 "Tom Hambridge Day." Hambridge's songs have been recorded by several notable artists and have been featured in movie productions, commercials and television programs. He has been referred to as "The White Willie Dixon" by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Buddy Guy and Susan Tedeschi's "Secret Weapon".

Use Me Up

Bill Withers Composer

My friends feel it's their appointed duty

They keep trying to tell me

All you want to do is use me

But my answer, yeah to all that use me stuff

I, I, I yes I want to spread the news

That if it feels this good getting used

Oh you just keep on using me

Until you use me up

Until you use me up

My brother sit me right down and he talked to me

He told me that I ought not to let you just walk on me

And I'm sure he meant well

Yeah, but when our talk was through

I said, brother, if you only knew

You'd wish that you were in my shoes

You just keep on using me

Until you use me up

Until you use me up

Sometimes, it's true

You really do abuse me

You get me in a crowd of high-class people

And then you act real rude to me

But, oh baby, baby, baby, baby

When you love me, I can't get enough

I want to spread the news

That if it feels this good getting used

Girl, you just keep on using me

Until you use me up

Until you use me up

Talkin' 'bout you usin' people

It all depends on what you do

It ain't too bad the way you're usin' me

Cause I sure am usin' you to do the things you do'

To do the things you do

"Love Potion No. 9" is a song written in 1959 by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was originally performed by the Clovers,[1] who took it to number 23 on the US as well as R&B charts that year.[2][3]

The song was recorded by the Searchers in 1964. Their version reached number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number two on Cash Box during the winter of 1965.[4]

Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass did an instrumental version (side 2, track 1) on his 1965 album Whipped Cream and Other Delights.

The Coasters released a version in December 1971 with "D. W. Washburn" on the B-side. It reached No. 76 on the Billboard Pop chart and No. 96 on the Cash Box chart.

"Messin' with the Kid" is a rhythm and blues-influenced blues song originally recorded by Junior Wells in 1960. Chief Records owner/songwriter/producer Mel London is credited as the songwriter. Considered a blues standard,[1] it is Junior Wells's best-known song.[2] "Messin' with the Kid" was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame and has been recorded by a variety of blues and other artists.

Deep down Louisiana close to New Orleans

Way back up in the woods among the evergreens

There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood

Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode

Who never ever learned to read or write so well

But he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell

Go go Go Johnny go

He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack

Go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track

Oh, the engineerswould see him sitting in the shade

Strumming with the rhythm that the drivers made

People passing by they would stop and say

Oh my that little country boy could play

Go go Go Johnny go

His mother told him "Someday you will be a man,

And you will be the leader of a big old band.

Many people coming from miles around

To hear you play your music when the sun go down

Maybe someday your name will be in lights

Saying Johnny B. Goode tonight."

I am an old woman named after my mother

My old man is another child that's grown old

If dreams were lightning, and thunder were desire

This old house would have burnt down a long time ago

Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery

Make me a poster of an old rodeo

Just give me one thing that I can hold on to

To believe in this living is just a hard way to go

When I was a young girl, well, I had me a cowboy

He weren't much to look at, just a free ramblin' man

But that was a long time and no matter how I try

The years just flow by like a broken-down dam

Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery

Make me a poster of an old rodeo

Just give me one thing that I can hold on to

To believe in this living is just a hard way to go

There's flies in the kitchen, I can hear 'em there buzzing

And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning

And come home in the evening and have nothing to say?

Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery

Make me a poster of an old rodeo

Just give me one thing that I can hold on to

To believe in this living is just a hard way to go