NATURE'S DISAPPEARING

JOHN MAYALL

SONGWRITER: JOHN MAYALL

COUNTRY: U.K.

ÁLBUM: U.S.A. UNION

LABEL: POLYDOR RECORDS

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1970

John Mayall OBE (Macclesfield, 29 de novembro de 1933) é um cantor, compositor e multi-instrumentalista inglês que toca blues.

Com uma carreira musical que atravessa mais de cinquenta anos, foi o fundador da banda John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers e influenciou muitos instrumentistas, como Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Peter Green, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor e Larry Taylor, entre outros.

USA Union is a 1970 album by blues musician John Mayall, featuring Harvey Mandel on guitar, Larry Taylor on bass and Don "Sugarcane" Harris on violin. The album was recorded on July 27 & 28th, 1970 at Larrabee Studios in LA and released by Polydor later in the same year.

At the end of the sixties John Mayall was residing in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California and had developed connections with local musicians, befriending Harvey Mandel and Larry Taylor, who had both just departed Canned Heat. Taylor had appeared on one track of Mayall's previous album, Empty Rooms, the only studio recordings of his "Turning Point" band, and stayed on to replace Stephen Thompson (with whom he duetted on "To a Princess"); Mandel essentially replaced acoustic guitar specialist Jon Mark, and electric violinist Harris replaced saxophonist Johnny Almond. In the USA Union liner notes, Mayall noted that, after the Turning Point band broke up, he'd played a British music festival with an all-star lineup and then needed to form a new band swiftly when Polydor Records pressed him for a new album.

Man's a filthy creature

Raping the land and water and the air

Tomorrow may be too late

Now's the time that you must be aware

Nature's disappearing

Polluted death is coming, do you care

Garbage going nowhere

Soon the dumps will spread to your front door

Lakes and rivers stagnant

Nothing lives or grows like years before

Nature's disappearing

The world you take for granted soon no more

Read about pollution

Make manufacturers uncomfortable

Boycott at the market

Containers that are non-returnable

Aluminum, glass and plastic

Eternal waste that's not destructible

We're a generation

That may live out our natural time

But as for all our children

Born to suffocate in human slime

Nature's disappearing

And we are guilty of this massive crime

COUNT ON ME

CONNIE TALBOT

SONGWRITER: BRUNO MARS

COUNTRY: U.K.

ALBUM: BEAUTIFUL WORL

LABEL: EVOSOUND

GENRE: POP MUSIC

YEAR: 2012

Connie Talbot (born 20 November 2000) is an English child singer. She rose to fame in 2007 when she reached the final of the first series of Britain's Got Talent. Talbot signed with Rainbow Recording Company and released her debut álbum Over the Rainbow in the UK on 26 November 2007. The album was re-released 18 June 2008 with a new track listing, and the first single from the album, a cover of Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds", was released on 10 June.

Beautiful World is the fourth studio album by Connie Talbot. It was released on 26 November 2012 by Hong Kong-based Evolution Media Ltd's Evosound label. It charted at number 1 in Taiwan. The album is produced by Grammy-winning producer Kipper together with Phil Taylor. The title track is a rerecorded version of Talbot's self-penned track "Beautiful World", previously released as a single in 2011.

Talbot promoted the album by performing in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines and Indonesia for her Beautiful World tour in December 2012. Her debut headline concert appearance was on 21 December at the Taiwan International Convention Centre (TICC) in front of an audience of 1800. This was followed by two headline concerts at KITEC, Hong Kong. She also made guest appearances in several TV shows, namely Eat Bulaga!.

On 28 July 2014, a DVD and Blu-ray was released of Talbot’s concerts in Hong Kong and Taiwan during her Beautiful World tour in 2012. It features live performances of the songs from the Beautiful World album, and two additional songs, "I Will Always Love You" and "Over the Rainbow".

If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea

I'll sail the world to find you

If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can't see

I'll be the light to guide you

Oh-oh ohhh

Find out what we're made of

When we are called to help our friends in need

You can count on me like 1 2 3

I'll be there

And I know when I need it I can count on you like 4 3 2

And you'll be there

Cause that's what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah

Wooooh, Wooooh

Yeah yeah

If you're tossing and you're turning and you just can't fall asleep

I'll sing a song beside you

And if you ever forget how much you really mean to me

Every day I will remind you

Ohhh...

Find out what we're made of

When we are called to help our friends in need

You can count on me like 1 2 3

I'll be there

And I know when I need it I can count on you like 4 3 2

And you'll be there

Cause that's what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah

Wooooh, Wooooh

Yeah Yeah

You'll always have my shoulder when you cry-y

I'll never let go

Never say goodbye...

...You know you can count on me like 1 2 3

I'll be there

And I know when I need it I can count on you like 4 3 2

And you'll be there

Cause that's what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah

You can count on me like 1 2 3

I'll be there

And I know when I need it I can count on you like 4 3 2

You'll be there

Cause that's what friends are supposed to do, oh yeah

Wooooh, Wooooh

You can count on me cause I can count on you.

SICK BED BLUES

SKIP JAMES

SONGWRITER: SKIP JAMES

COUNTRY: germany

ALBUM: hard time killing floor blues

Label: vanguard

Genre: blues

Year: 1998

Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 9,  1902 – October 3, 1969) was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter.

His guitar playing is noted for its dark, minor-key sound, played in an open D-minor tuning with an intricate fingerpicking technique. James first recorded for Paramount Records in 1931, but these recordings sold poorly, having been released during the Great Depression, and he drifted into obscurity. After a long absence from the public eye, James was "rediscovered" in 1964 by three blues enthusiasts, helping further the blues and folk music revival of the 1950s and early 1960s. During this period, James appeared at folk and blues festivals, gave concerts around the country and recorded several albums for various record labels.

His songs have influenced generations of musicians, having been adapted or covered by Kansas Joe McCoy, Robert Johnson, Alan Wilson, Cream, Deep Purple, Chris Thomas King, Alvin Youngblood Hart, the Derek Trucks Band, Beck, Big Sugar, Eric Clapton, John Martyn, Lucinda Williams and Rory Block. He has been hailed as "one of the seminal figures of the blues."

Layin' sick, honey, on my bed

I'm layin' sick, honey, and on my bed

I'm layin' sick, honey, and on my bed

I used to have some friends but they wish that I were dead

In awful pain and deep in misery

Awful pain and deep in misery

Awful pain and deep in misery

I ain't got nobody to come and see about me

And every dog, baby, got a day

And every dog, baby, got a day

Every dog, baby, got a day

But I said, "Please, don't you treat me this-a way"

The doctor came, lookin' very sad

The doctor came, lookin' very sad

The doctor came, lookin' very sad

He diagnosed my case and said it was awful bad

He walked away, mumblin' very low

He said, "He may get better but he'll never get well no more

I hollered, "Lord, oh Lord, Lord, Lordy, Lord

Oh Lordy, Lord, Lord, Lord

I been so badly misused and treated just like a dog"

I've got a long trip and I'm just too weak to ride

I've got a long trip and I'm just too weak to ride

I got a long trip and I'm just too weak to ride

Now it's a thousand people standin' at my bedside

You take a stone, you can bruise my bone

You take stone and you can bruise my bone

You take a stone and you can bruise my bone

But you sure gonna miss me when I'm dead and gone

I been on the ocean, I been across the sea

Been on the ocean, I been across the sea

Been on the ocean, I been across the sea

I ain't found nobody would feel my sympathy

NORDRACH

JUD'S GALLERY

SONGWRITER: JUD’S GALLERY

COUNTRY: GERMANY

ALBUM: SWF SESSION, VOLUME 1

LABEL: LONG HAIR

GENRE: PSICHEDELIC ROCK/BLUES

YEAR: 2000

Jud's Gallery wurde 1971 von Jürgen 'Judy' Winter und Peter Oehler in Offenburg gegründet. Sie absolvierten eine Deutschlandtournee MIT Golden Earring und spielten im Vorprogramm von Gruppen wie Steamhammer, Pretty Things, Beggar`s Opera, Alexis Korner etc. 1972 und 1974 nahmen sie für den Südwestfunk in zwei Aufnahme-Sessions Material auf, dass seinerzeit z.B. im Popshop ausgestrahlt wurde. Ein Vierteljahrhundert später wurden beide SWF-Sessions von Long Hair Music auf CD gebracht >> Cover - siehe unten.

Erst diese Veröffentlichung brachte den Stein ins Rollen, dass Gary Moores Still got the blues möglicherweise Von J.Winters Song "Nordrach" abgekupfert wurde.