BAD TO THE BONE
GEORGE THOROGOOD
SONGWRITER: GEORGE THOROGOOD
CONTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: BAD TP THE BONE
LABEL: EMI AMERICANA
GENRE: BLUES
YEAR: 1982

Bad to the Bone is a song by George Thorogood and the Destroyers released in 1982 on the album of the same name. While it was not widely popular during its initial release, its video made recurrent appearances on the nascent MTV, created a year before. Licensing for films, television, and commercials has since made the song more popular. Author Jim Beviglia argues that despite the song not making the pop charts, it "outstrips all other 80s songs in terms of the way it has essentially become cultural shorthand".
The song adapts the hook and lyrics of Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy".
On October 7, 2008, the song was released as downloadable content for the music video game series Rock Band. It also featured in Rock Band Track Pack: Classic Rock. The video game Rock 'n Roll Racing also uses it.
The song has also been used as a theme song for Mr. Bungle.
Talk show host Bill Cunningham uses the song as the opening intro to his afternoon talk show on WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio, and on his Sunday night radio show. The song "E.V.I.L. B.O.Y.S." from the hit Disney show Phineas and Ferb sampled the base melody of the song to give it a blues sound.
Thorogood appeared in a UPS commercial, convincing NASCAR driver Dale Jarrett to race the brown delivery truck, and rewriting the lyrics as "Brown to the Bone", in 2002.
On the day I was born
The nurses all gathered 'round
And they gazed in wide wonder
At the joy they had found

The head nurse spoke up
And she said leave this one alone
She could tell "right away"
That I was bad to the bone

Bad to the bone (x2)
B-B-B-B-Bad (x3)
Bad to the bone

I broke a thousand hearts
Before I met you
I'll break a thousand more, baby
Before I am through

I wanna be yours, pretty baby
Yours and yours alone
I'm here to tell ya, honey
That I'm bad to the bone

Bad to the boné
B-B-B-B-Bad (x3)
Bad to the bone

I make a rich woman beg
I'll make a good woman steal
I'll make an old woman blush
And make a young woman squeal

I wanna be yours, pretty baby
Yours and yours alone
I'm here to tell ya, honey
That I'm bad to the bone

B-B-B-B-Bad (x3)
Bad to the boné

Now when I walk the streets
Kings and queens step aside
Every woman I meet
They all stay satisfied

I wanna tell ya, pretty baby
What I see I make my own
And I'm here to tell ya, honey
That I'm bad to the bone

Bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad (x3)
Bad to the bone.
MISSISSIPPI RIVER BLUES
BIG BILL BROONZY
SONGWRITER: BIG BILL BROONZY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE YOUNG BIG BILL BRONZY 1928-1935/VINYL
LABEL: YAZOO RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES
YEAR: 1991

Big Bill Broonzy(born Lee Conley Bradley, June 26, 1903– August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s, when he played country blues to mostly African-American audiences. Through the 1930s and 1940s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with working-class African-American audiences. In the 1950s a return to his traditional folk-blues roots made him one of the leading figures of the emerging American folk music revival and an international star. His long and varied career marks him as one of the key figures in the development of blues music in the 20th century.
Broonzy copyrighted more than 300 songs during his lifetime, including both adaptations of traditional folk songs and original blues songs. As a blues composer, he was unique in writing songs that reflected his rural-to-urban experiences
Broonzy's influences included the folk music, spirituals, work songs, ragtime music, hokum, and country blues he heard growing up and the styles of his contemporaries, including Jimmie Rodgers, Blind Blake, Son House, and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Broonzy combined all these influences into his own style of the blues, which foreshadowed the postwar Chicago blues, later refined and popularized by artists such as Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon.
Although he had been a pioneer of the Chicago blues style and had employed electric instruments as early as 1942, white audiences in the 1950s wanted to hear him playing his earlier songs accompanied only by his own acoustic guitar, which they considered to be more authentic.
He portrayed the discrimination against black Americans in his song "Black, Brown and White".The song has been used globally in education about racism, but in the late 1990s its inclusion in antiracism education at a school in Greater Manchester, England, led pupils to taunt the school's only black pupil with the song's chorus, "If you're white, that's all right, if you're brown, stick around, but if you're black, oh brother get back, get back, get back". The national media reported that the problem became so bad that the nine-year-old boy was withdrawn from the school by his mother. The song had already been adopted by the National Front, a far-right British political party which peaked in popularity in the 1970s and opposed nonwhite immigration to Britain.
A considerable part of Broonzy's early ARC/CBS recordings has been reissued in anthologies by CBS-Sony, and other earlier recordings have been collected on blues reissue labels, as have his European and Chicago recordings of the 1950s. The Smithsonian's Folkways Records has also released several albums featuring Broonzy.
(...)In the September 2007 issue of Q Magazine, Ronnie Wood, of the Rolling Stones, cited Broonzy's track "Guitar Shuffle" as his favorite guitar music. Wood remarked, "It was one of the first tracks I learnt to play, but even to this day I can't play it exactly right."
Eric Clapton has cited Broonzy as a major inspiration, commenting that Broonzy "became like a role model for me, in terms of how to play the acoustic guitar." Clapton featured Broonzy's song "Hey Hey" on his album Unplugged. The Derek and the Dominos album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs includes their recording of "Key to the Highway".
(…)As part of the PopUp Archive project, in collaboration with the WFMT network, the Chicago History Museum, and the Library of Congress, an hour-long interview of Broonzy, recorded on September 13, 1955, by Studs Terkel was made available on-line. The interview includes reflections on his life and on the blues tradition, a performance of one of his most famous songs, "Alberta," and performances of "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad" and other classics.
Mississ-ippi river
Is so long, deep and wide
I can see my good girl
Standin' on that other side

I cried and I called
I could not make my baby hear
Lord, I'm 'on get me a boat, woman
Paddle on away from here
(guitar)

Ain't it hard to love someone
When they are so far from you
Lord, I'm on' get me a boat and
Paddle this old river blue

I went down to the landing
To see if any boats were there
And the fareman told me
Could not find the boats nowhere
(guitar)

The big boat ease up the river
Are turnin' 'round an 'round
Lord, I'm 'on get me a good girl
Or jump overboard an drown.
LEÃO FERIDO
BYAFRA
COMPOSITORES: BYAFRA & DALTO
PAÍS: BRASIL
ÁLBUM: DESPERTAR
GRAVADORA: CBS
GÊNERO: POP MUSIC
ANO: 1981

Byafra, nome artístico de Maurício Pinheiro Reis(Niterói, 15 de outubro de 1957), é um cantor e compositor brasileiro, conhecido pelo sucesso da música "Sonho de Ícaro".
Em 1970, surgiu na cidade de Niterói (Rio de Janeiro) a banda O Circo, que lançou Biafra como vocalista. Seus maiores sucessos, "Leão Ferido" (incluído no álbum Despertar-1981) e "Sonho de Ícaro" (incluído no álbum Existe Uma Ideia-1984), renderam-lhe dois Discos de Ouro. Compositor de muitos temas de novelas, lançou 14 álbuns, que venderam mais de meio milhão de cópias.
Suas músicas também foram gravadas pelos maiores ídolos da MPB. Em 1998, antes do lançamento do álbum Ícaro, trocou o "i" pelo "y" em seu nome artístico (de Biafra para Byafra) para evitar aparecer na mesma página da guerra civil nigeriana nos sites de busca da internet. Atualmente ainda mora em sua cidade natal.
Desde esse início vitorioso até hoje, Byafra jamais deixou de ter suas canções cantadas e lembradas por fãs de todas as gerações. São ao todo 12 álbuns inéditos e duas compilações que compõem um capítulo importante da Música Popular Brasileira. Como compositor Byafra registrou sua obra na voz de grandes artistas como Roberto Carlos, Ney Matogrosso, Simone, Chitãozinho & Xororó, Chrystian & Ralf, Rosana, Xuxa, Angélica, KLB, Danilo Caymmi e muitos outros.
No dia 8 de setembro de 2009, foi lançado um vídeo no YouTube, no qual Byafra é atingido involuntariamente por um parapente enquanto cantava para uma gravação de TV, a música de seu maior sucesso, Sonho de Ícaro, no Rio de Janeiro. Um episódio cômico da vida de Byafra, que encarou a situação com muito bom humor.
Feche os olhos
Não te quero mais
Dentro do coração

Quantas vezes
Eu tentei falar
Com você

Eu não gosto
De me ver assim
Mas não tem solução
A verdade dói
Demais em mim
Solidão

Tenho que ser bandido
Tenho que ser cruel
Um leão ferido
Feroz!

Sou um herói vencido
Anjo que fere o céu
Grito de amor sumido
Na voz!
Que voz!
Ouve!
ESQUINAS
DJAVAN
COMPOSITOR: DJAVAN
PAÍS: BRASIL
ÁLBUM: ESQUINAS
GRAVADORA: SONY INTERNACIONAL
GÊNERO: M.P.B.
ANO: 1994

Esquinas é uma coletânea musical do cantor brasileiro Djavan, lançada em 1994. Contendo catorze faixas, este álbum foi promocionalmente lançado para o exterior, com versões em espanhol das canções Faltando um Pedaço, Meu Bem Querer e Pétala.
Djavan Caetano Viana(Maceió, 27 de janeiro de 1949) é um cantor, compositor, produtor musical e violonista brasileiro.
As músicas de Djavan são conhecidas pelas suas "cores". Ele retrata muito bem em suas composições a riqueza das cores do dia a dia e se utiliza de seus elementos em construções metafóricas de maneira distinta dos demais compositores. As músicas são amplas, confortáveis chegando ao requinte de um luxo acessível a todos. Até hoje é conhecido mundialmente pela sua tradição e o ritmo da música cantada.
Djavan combina tradicionais ritmos sul-americanos com música popular dos Estados Unidos, Europa e África. Entre seus sucessos musicais destacam-se "Seduzir", "Flor de Lis", "Lilás", "Pétala", "Se…", "Nem Um Dia", "Eu te Devoro", "Açaí", "Segredo", "A Ilha", "Faltando um Pedaço", "Oceano", "Esquinas", "Samurai", "Boa Noite" e "Acelerou".
Só eu sei
As esquinas por que passei
Só eu sei só eu sei
Sabe lá o que é não ter e ter que ter p’ra dar
Sabe lá
Sabe lá

E quem será
Nos arredores do amor
Que vai saber reparar
Que o dia nasceu
Só eu sei
Os desertos que atravessei
Só eu sei
Só eu sei

Sabe lá
O que é morrer de sede em frente ao mar
Sabe lá
Sabe lá
E quem será
Na correnteza do amor que vai saber se guiar
A nave em breve ao vento vaga de leve e traz
Toda a paz que um dia o desejo levou

Só eu sei
As esquinas por que passei
Só eu sei
Só eu sei
E quem será
Na correnteza do amor.