I JUST WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO YOU

WILLIE DIXON

SONGWRITER: WILLIE DIXON

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: I JUST WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO YOU

LABEL: CHESS

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1954

"I Just Want to Make Love to You" is a 1954 blues song written by Willie Dixon, first recorded by Muddy Waters, and released as "Just Make Love to Me" (Chess 1571). The song reached number four on Billboard magazine's R&B Best Sellers chart.

Backing Waters on vocals are Little Walter on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Otis Spann on piano, Willie Dixon on bass, and Fred Below on drums. Waters recorded the song again for the album Electric Mud (1968).

I don't want you to be no slave

I don't want you to work all day

I don't want you to be true

I just want to make love to you

I don't want you to wash my clothes

I don't want you to keep my home

I don't want your money too

I just want to make love to you

Well I can see by the way that you switch and walk

And I can tell by the way that you baby talk

And I know by the way that you treat your man

I wanna love you baby, it's a cryin' shame

I don't want you to bake my bread

I don't want you to make my bed

I don't want you cause I'm sad and blue

I just want to make love to you.

BLUES MAN

B.B. KING

SONGWRITERS: B.B. King

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: Blues on the Bayou

LABEL: MCA RECORDS

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1998

Riley Ben King, mais conhecido como B. B. King, (Itta Bena, 16 de setembro de 1925 –Las Vegas, 14 de maio de 2015) foi um guitarrista de blues, compositor e cantor estadunidense. O "B. B." em seu nome significa Blues Boy, seu pseudônimo como moderador na rádio W. Foi considerado, ao lado de Eric Clapton e Jimi Hendrix, um dos melhores guitarristas do mundo pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone. Ao longo da sua carreira, B.B. King foi distinguido com 15 prémios Grammy, tendo sido o criador de um estilo musical único e que faria dele um dos músicos mais respeitados e influentes de blues, tendo ganho o epíteto de Rei dos Blues.

Era apreciado por seus solos, nos quais, ao contrário de muitos guitarristas, preferia usar poucas notas. Certa vez, B.B. King teria dito: "posso fazer uma nota valer por mil".

Blues on the Bayou is the thirty sixth studio album by B. B. King, released in 1998.

In the CD liner notes, B.B. King writes: "Of the many records Lucille and I have had the pleasure of recording over the years, this one is especially close to my heart. It's also one of the most relaxed and, for me, satisfying [...] No one was telling us what to do. No one needed to tell us what to do." He adds that he considers the band playing on this album as his best ever and that he got to the studio with the idea of keeping the music simple ("I've felt the urge to go back to basics."). With this state of mind, the record was cut in four days: "Found some old B. B. King songs. Wrote some new ones. [...] All live, all real. No overdubs, no high-tech tricks. Just basic blues."

The album won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.

I've traveled for miles around

Seems like everybody wanna put me down

Because I'm a bluesman

But I'm a good man, understand

I went down to the bus station

Look upon the wall

My money is to light people

Couldn't go no where at all

I'm a bluesman

But I'm a good man, understand

The burden that I carry, oh is so heavy

It seems like ain't nobody in this great big world

That would wanna, wanna help old B.

Hey, but I'll, I would be all right people

Just give me a break, good things come

The those wait, and I've waited a long time

I'm a bluesman

But I'm a good man, understand. 

EVENIN'

T-BONE WALKER

SONGWRITER: Harry White

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: EVENIN’ BLUES

LABEL: COLUMBIA

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1983

Aaron Thibeaux Walker ou T-Bone Walker ou Oak Cliff T-Bone (Linden, Texas, 28 de maio de 1910 – 16 de março de 1975) foi um guitarrista de blues, cantor e compositor Americano, tido como o primeiro músico de blues a usar uma guitarra acústica amplificada. Foi considerado o 67º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.

Walker nasceu em Linden, no Texas, de ascendência afro-americana e cherokee. Quando ele era jovem, sua família mudou-se para uma região no sul de Dallas conhecida como Oak Cliff onde ele encontrou e aprendeu com Blind Lemon Jefferson, um outro músico de blues. A primeira gravação de Walker foi "Wichita Falls Blues"/"Trinity River Blues", pela gravadora Columbia Records em 1929 com o nome de Oak Cliff T-Bone.

Evenin'

Ev'ry night you come and you find me, oh Lord

And you always come and remind me, oh yes

That my gal is gone, my baby's gone, oh Lord, my

baby's gone

Evenin'

Can't you see I'm deeply in your power, oh Lord?

Every minute seems like an hour, oh Lord

Since my gal, she's gone, my baby's gone, my baby's

gone

Now shadow's fallin', well,

Are on the wall

That's the time I miss your kiss, most of all

Even though I try, how can I go on, oh yes, go on

Pretty baby

Evenin'

Let me sleep 'til the gray dawn is breakin', oh yes

I don't care if I don't awaken, oh Lord

Since my gal she's gone, my baby's gone, oh yes she's

gone

Evenin'

Let me sleep 'til gray dawn is breakin', oh Lord

I don't care if I don't awaken, oh yes, since my gal

she's gone

My baby's gone, my baby's gone

My baby's gone

BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE

JOHN LEE HOOKER

SONGWRITERS: JOHN LEE HOOKER & LEROY CARR ·

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE

LABEL: ASTAN

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1984

John Lee Hooker (22 de agosto de 1912 – 21 de junio de 2001) fue un cantante y guitarrista de blues estadounidense.

La carrera musical de Hooker empezó em 1948 cuando consiguió el éxito con el single "Boogie Chillen", cantado en un estilo medio hablado que se convertiría en característico. Rítmicamente, su música era muy libre, característica que ha sido común entre los primeros músicos acústicos de blues del Delta. Su fraseado no estaba tan atado a los estándares de la mayoría de los cantantes de blues. Este estilo informal e incoherente se fue diluyendo con la aparición de las bandas de blues eléctrico de Chicago pero, incluso cuando no tocaba solo, Hooker mantuvo su propio sonido.

Em 1955 acabó su contrato con Modern Records y fichó por la compañía Vee Jay, de Chicago, que publicó los clásicos Dimples y Boom Boom.

Mantuvo, sin embargo, una carrera en solitario, siendo siempre popular entre los aficionados al blues y al folk de principios de los años 1960, lo que le valió llegar también a la audiencia blanca.

I have the blues before sunrise, 

tears standing in my eyes

I have the blues before sunrise, 

tears standing in my eyes

It was a miserable feeling, 

now babe, a feeling I do despise

I have to leave, leave you baby, 

because you know you done me wrong

I have to leave you baby, 

because you know you done me wrong

I'm gonna pack up 

and leave you darling 

and break up my happy home

I have to leave, leave you baby, 

I'm gonna leave you all alone

I'm gonna leave you baby, 

I'm gonna leave you all alone

I'm gonna pack up 

and leav you darling, 

because you know you done me wrong

Well now goodbye, 

goodbye baby, 

I'll see you on some rainy day

Well now goodbye baby, 

I'll see you on some rainy day

You can go ahead now little darling, 

'cause I want you to have your way