LYNN WHITE - BLUES IN MY BEDROOM

BLUES IN MY BEDROOM

LYNN WHITE

SONGWRITER: lynn white
TRANSCRIBER: SOLEDAD MCKINNON

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: at her best

LABEL: Columbia records

GENRE: blues

YEAR: 1996

Joy Lynn White(born July 24, 1961) is an American country music singer-songwriter. White was born in Arkansas but raised in Mishawaka, Indiana. Signed to Columbia Records in 1992, she released her debut album Between Midnight & Hindsight that same year. In 1993, she was nominated for Top New Female Vocalist at the Academy of Country Music Awards, but lost to Michelle Wright. A critical favorite, reviewer Alanna Nash once described White as "a fiery redhead with a wild-and-wounded delivery and an attitude that says she’s not to be ignored." The Dixie Chicks covered both "Cold Day in July" from White's first album and "Tonight the Heartache's on Me" from her Wild Love album.

At Her Best contains 13 (this time lucky) of Lynn White's sauciest tracks. There is straight, unapologetic southern soul on every cut. A medley of "Slow and Easy"/"Take Me to the Mountain" gets the disc off and flying.

Memphis soul and blues diva Lynn White possessed the kind of subtle, dulcet voice rare in a field typically dominated by more gritty singers. Born August 6, 1953 in Mobile, Alabama, White was six years old when she began singing in church, and began her professional career during the late '70s, making her debut in 1981 with Am I Too Much Woman for You. A year later, she recorded the single "I Don't Ever Want to See Your Face Again" for the tiny Sho Me label; the record made its way to legendary producer Willie Mitchell (best known for his work with Al Green), who reissued it on his Waylo Records imprint and soon after brought White in for a studio session. She remained with Waylo for the duration of the 1980s, but with the new decade formed her own label, Chelsea, and released The New Me in 1990. Home Girl followed in 1991, and two years later White returned with Cheatin'..

Well, it’s three o’clock in the morning baby

And I got the blues

In my bedroom.

Yeah, said it’s three o’clock in the

morning baby

Yes it is

And I got the blues

In my bedroom.

You know my love come tumbling down

And my man could not be found

I tried to call you last evening, baby

And explain

Three hours in my bed alone

Yes I did.

Said I tried to call you last evening, baby

And explain

Three hours in my bed alone

But some woman answered the phone

And she said Lynn, your baby’s not at home.

I wonder will you be at work, babe

I would’ve called you on the telephone.

Said I wonder will you be at work, babe

Yes I do

I would’ve called you on the telephone.

I would’ve come home from work

One evening, baby.

And find that you’d be gone

Baby…

Baby…

Yes, I got the blues…