OH PRETTY WOMAN

JOHN MAYALL & THE BLUESBREAKERS

SONWRITER: JOHN MAYALL

COUNTRY: U.K.

ALBUM: CRUSADE

LABEL: DECCA RECORDS

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1967

Crusade is the fourth album and third studio album by the British blues rock band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, released on 1 September 1967 on Decca Records. It was the follow-up to A Hard Road, also released in 1967. As with their two previous albums, Crusade was produced by Mike Vernon. The album was the first recordings of a young 18-year-old guitarist, Mick Taylor.

Oh, pretty woman, you's the risin' sun

You see your cheap changin' powder ain't gon' help you none

'Cause you's a pretty woman right down to your toes

So you just might as well leave your skin alone
Pretty woman

What's the matter with you?

Can't make you love me

No matter what I do

Oh, pretty woman, what you tryin' to do?

You kept on foolin' 'round just like I stepped on you

So you just drop that mess and come down off your throne

Stop using my poor heart as just a steppin' stone

Pretty woman

What's the matter with you?

Can't make you love me

No matter what I do

Oh, pretty woman, that's alright for you

And you just go on doin' what you wanna do

But someday when you think that you have got it made

You gonna need my help but it'll be too late

Pretty woman

What's the matter with you?

Can't make you love me

No matter what I do

Can't make you love me

No matter what I do

THIS IS LIFE

GRACE JONES

SONGWRITER: Grace Jones

COUNTRY: JAMAICA

ALBUM: HURRICANE

LABEL: WALL OF SOUND

GENRE: DISCO

YEAR: 2008

Hurricane é o décimo álbum de estúdio da cantora jamaicana-americana Grace Jones. Foi lançado em 3 de Novembro de 2008, pelo selo musical Wall of Sound. O álbum, é o primeiro inédito da cantora em dezenove anos. Com este álbum, Grace Jones flerta com a música dance e eletrônica, misturando-as com o soul. Hurricane traz antigas colaborações como Barry Heynolds e Bruce Woolley. O singles do álbum já lançados são as faixas "Corporate Cannibal", "William's Blood" e "Love You to Life". O disco atingiu a posição #42 na parada de álbuns do Reino Unido.

This is my voice, my weapon of choice

This is life, this is life

This is a plate, this is a cup

This is a story I didn’t make up

This is a girl lost in the woods

Some kind of wagon from some other hood

This is a voice, these are the hands

This is technology mixed with the band

Are you going into the light?

Are you free of fear today?

When you lie down to sleep do you kind of float away

Most of my crimes are of optimism

40 thousand volts of recognition

They tried to strip me of dignity

But I still have tenacity

These are the words I didn’t invent

Only an attempt to say what I meant

This is the paper, this is the pen

This is my weapon, a means to an end

Are you going into the desert?

You’re out of control of your fate

There are no warriors without a war

So get ahead before it’s too late

This is life

Lay down your spear, let go your fear

Far becomes near, oh Lord

This is life

This is the tree that Buddha slept under

These are the clouds, this is our thunder

This is what makes me look up and wonder

Into the eye of the wind

Through the rain, onto the plain

This is what I’m focused on, this is my head on straight

This is the harness, this is the bait

This is me, I’m flying again

This is a lawyer, professional liar

There, taking, igniting the fire

This is the key, this is the door

Imagine the view from the basement floor

Now you’re going into the desert

You’re out of control of your fate

Are you a slave in a chain of command

Serving up another man’s head

This is life

Lay down your spear, let go your fear

Far becomes near, look out

This is life

Are you going into the light?

Are you free of fear today?

When you lie down to sleep, do you kind of float away

This is depression, it comes when you’re blocking

This is expression, it comes when you’re rocking

When you lie down to sleep, do you kind of float away

(This is a plate, this is a cup, this is a story, this is a story I didn’t make up)

When you lie down to sleep, do you kind of float away

(This is a plate, this is a cup, this is a story, this is a story I didn’t make up)

This is the world still healing, this is man that’s feeling

This is, this is the world still turning

This is the rage still burning, this is the man not learning

This is life

HOLDING BACK THE YEARS

SIMPLY RED(BAND)

SONGWRITERS: Mick Hucknall & Neil Moss

COUNTRY: U.K.

ALBUM: PICTURE BOX

LABEL: ELEKTRA RECORDS

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1985

Picture Book é o álbum de estreia da banda Simply Red, lançado em 1985. O disco contém uns de seus maiores sucessos, "Holding Back the Years" topo da Billboard em 1986. Outras que destacaram: "Money's Too Tight (To Mention)" do Valentine Brothers e "Come To My Aid".

Durante a produção, Sylvan Richardson substituiu o guitarrista Dave Fryman.

O álbum faz parte da coleção 1001 Discos Para Ouvir Antes de Morrer (1001 Albuns you must hear before you die) feita por 90 jornalistas e críticos de música internacionalmente reconhecidos, organizada pelo editor Robert Dimer

Holding back the years

Thinking of the fear I've had so long

When somebody hears

Listen to the fear that's gone

Strangled by the wishes of pater

Hoping for the arms of mater

Get to me the sooner or later

I'll keep holding on

I'll keep holding on

Holding back the years

Chance for me escape from all I've known

Holding back the tears

Cause nothing here has grown

I've wasted all my tears

Wasted all those years

Nothing had the chance to be good

Nothing ever could, yeah, ah oh oh oh

I'll keep holding on

I'll keep holding on

I`ll keep holding on

I'll keep holding on

So tight

All right, oh now!

But I've wasted all my tears

Wasted all of those years

And nothing had the chance to be good

'Cause nothing ever could, oh yeah, oh yeah

I'll keep holding on

I'll keep holding on

I'll keep holding on

I'll keep holding on

Holding, holding, holding aaaah la la la la la...

I say ooh, where?

That's all I have today

It's all I have to say...

SET ME FREE

SULMATE

SONGWRITER: JOHN MARK HALL & BERNIE HERMES

COUNTRY: INDIA

ALBUM: MOVING ON

LABEL: INDEPENDENT

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 2009

Soulmate is a blues rock band from Shillong, Meghalaya, India. The band is primarily made up of Rudy Wallang (guitar/vocals/songwriter) and Tipriti TIPS Kharbangar (vocals/guitar), although they frequently team up with session musicians (on drums, bass, organ and possibly other backup instruments) when on tour. Tipriti is considered as one of the finest female singers to have emerged from North East India and Wallang is considered one of the most respected blues guitarists of India.

Soulmate is a Shillong based blues band, which came together in February 2003 playing their first concert at the ‘Roots Festival' at the Water Sports Complex in Umiam. Since then the band has performed many concerts all over The Northeast as well as in different parts of India, Southeast Asia, Europe, The Middle East and The United States.

Soulmate gained nationwide recognition and popularity within jazz and blues circles in India after they became the only blues band to represent the country at the 23^rd International Blues Challenge organized by The Blues Foundation of America, in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, in February 2007 and 2010. They were semi-finalists and performed at the Rum Boogie Café (Blues Club of The Year, 2007) and Ground Zero(2010) alongside 150 other bands and musicians from all over the world

Soulmate has performed at many prestigious festivals like International Jazzmandu Festival in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2004, 2005 and 2008,"Mosaic Music Festival" Singapore in 2009."Du World Music festival" in Dubai 2011, Harley Rock Riders Season III in Bangalore in 2012, Maximum India Festival at Kennedy Center in Washington DC in 2011, Jakarta Blues Festival in Indonesia in 2009 and 2010, "Monsteros Blues Festival "Sweden, Norway, "Baltic Blues Festival "in Eutin, Germany in 2012 Mahindra Blues Fest in Mumbai in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 .Opened for Carlos Santana at the Formula One Rocks, 2012 "event in Delhi etc. The band also played at Oasis 2013, the cultural fest of BITS, Pilani, which is one of Asia's largest student-organised festivals.

u got me

the way u want me

looks there was nothin

nothin maybe i can look

i m under ur spell

i just got afraid of myself

nobody could help me

no no not even u

u canT take my mind

u cant take my soul

u cant change my soul