CHRISTHIAN WILLISOHN - BLUES IN MY BOTTLE

BLUES IN MY BOTTLE

CHRISTIAN WILLISOHN

SONGWRITER: CHRISTIAN WILLISOHN

COUNTRY: GERMANY

ALBUM: BOOGIE WOOGIE AND SOME BLUES

LABEL: ENJA RECORDS

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1991

 

       Christian Willisohn(born January 22, 1962 in Munich) is a German blues pianist and singer.

        His musical career began in 1980 in clubs in Munich; In 1986 he gave up his job as a stonemason and sculptor. In 1987 he played with Zora Young for the first time in the USA. Since then he has played with many international blues musicians. Today he appears all over Europe with classics and his own compositions with texts by his wife, Alexandra Mayer.

          In 1988 she began her long-term collaboration with Lillian Boutté, which only ended due to her tragic illness. Since 1992 he has been working with the Dutch saxophonist Boris Vanderlek. In 1995 he produced a textbook for blues & boogie piano with Prof. Herbert Wiedemann from the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1996 he founded the label Art By Heart with the piano builder Rainer Schmidt.

       In 2003 he established the success of the festival series with his appearance at the B&B Rhythm'n'Blues Festival in Halle (Westphalia).

             In 2008 and 2009 he accompanied the “Sea Cloud II” with concert tours from Hamburg to St. Petersburg and from Naples to Venice. The band “Southern Spirit” re-formed around him in autumn 2010 with Boris van der Lek (saxophone), Titus Vollmer (guitar, vocal); Peter Kraus (drums, vocal), Matthias Engelhardt (bass).

          He has the ability to always build a bridge with his music from jazz and blues to classical and other music. In interaction with his band and other musicians, he proves himself to be a good team player who likes to see his colleagues shine too.

I went down to the river

Sat there all night long

Wondering 'bout my life

Wondering what went wrong

Blues in my bottle

Sorrow in my cup

I've been down for so long

 

It's getting hard to get back up

It's hard to find a woman

Even harder to find a friend

When I think love's beginning

It turns out to be the end

Blues in my bottle

Sorrow in my cup

I've been down for so long

 

It's getting hard to get back up

I've been drinkin' and drinkin'

To drive my blues away

It leaves me for the night time

But it's right back next day

Blues in my bottle

Sorrow in my cup

I've been down for so long

 

It's getting hard to get back up

I'm happy on the outside

Folks think I'm OK

But I'm crying on the inside

See my tears they fall like rain

Blues in my bottle

Sorrow in my cup

I've been down for so long

It's getting hard to get back up.