DON’T LEAVE ME HERE

TAJ MAHAL & KEB' MO'
SONGWRITERS: GARY NICHOLSON; TAJ MAHAL & keb mo
COUNTRY: u. s. a.
ALBUM: TAJ MO
LABEL: concord records
GENRE: blues
YEAR: 2017
 
              Taj Mahal (born Henry Saint Clair Fredericks) is an American blues musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and film composer. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many others, often incorporating elements of world music into his work. Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his more than 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, India, Hawaii, and the South Pacific.
            Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known as Keb' Mo', is an American blues musician and five-time Grammy Award winner. He is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter, living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been described as "a living link to the seminal Delta blues that travelled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America". His post-modern blues style is influenced by many eras and genres, including folk, rock, jazz, pop and country. The moniker "Keb Mo" was coined by his original drummer, Quentin Dennard, and picked up by his record label as a "street talk" abbreviation of his given name.
           TajMo is the thirteenth studio album and a collaborative album by the American blues musicians Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo'. It was released May 5, 2017. It won the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.

How the weather in the country?
How the weather down south?
How the weather in the Delta?
How the food taste in your mouth?
Butter beans and cornbread, grits and greens
Candied yams and black eyed peas
 
If you're going to Mississippi
Where that Delta sky is sweet and clear
Ooh, y'all, I'm stuck here in Chicago
Please don't leave me here
 
When you see Ludella, tell her hey for me
Last time I saw her, it was in my dreams
She's the sweetest thing under the sun
When I think about some lovin', she's still the one
 
Now if you're going to Mississippi
Where that Delta sky is sweet and clear
Well you know, I'm stuck here in Chicago
Please don't leave me here
 
What they doin' in Vicksburg down in Aberdeen?
They got more fine big-legged women
Than any one man ever seen
What they doin' in Jackson and little old Itta Bena?
I ain't been to Clarksdale since 1963
 
'Cause if you're going to Mississippi
Where that Delta sky is sweet and clear
Y'all, I'm stuck here in Chicago
Please don't leave me here
 
How the weather in the Delta?
Sure cold up here
Baby run off and left me late last year
It was just before Christmas
Deep, deep snow on the ground
Came home later in the evening
She done tore my playhouse down
 
So if you're going to Mississippi
Where that Delta sky is sweet and clear
Ooh, y'all, I'm stuck here in Chicago
Please don't leave me here
 
Don't leave
Please don't leave me here, mmm
Please don't leave, ooh
Please don't leave me here
 
Ooh, well I'll be
Please don't leave me here
Please don't leave me
Please don't leave me here
 
Please don't leave me
Please don't leave me here
Please don't leave.

THEM THERE EYES

BILLIE HOLIDAY
SONGWRITERS: DORIS TAUBER; MACEO PINKARD & WILLIAM TRACEY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE UNFORGETTABLE
LABEL: VOCATION RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1939
 
           Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), known professionally as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz and swing music singer with a career spanning 26 years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.
          After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by producer John Hammond, who commended her voice. She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935. Collaborations with Teddy Wilson yielded the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as Columbia and Decca. By the late 1940s, however, she was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse. After a short prison sentence, she performed at a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall, but her reputation deteriorated because of her drug and alcohol problems.
        She was a successful concert performer throughout the 1950s with two further sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall. Because of personal struggles and an altered voice, her final recordings were met with mixed reaction but were mild commercial successes. Her final album, Lady in Satin, was released in 1958. Holiday died of cirrhosis on July 17, 1959. She won four Grammy Awards, all of them posthumously, for Best Historical Album. She was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1973. Lady Sings the Blues, a film about her life, starring Diana Ross, was released in 1972. She is the primary character in the play (later made into a film) Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill; the role was originated by Reenie Upchurch in 1986 and was played by Audra McDonald on Broadway and in the film. In 2017, Holiday was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
          "Them There Eyes" is a jazz song written by Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, and William Tracey that was published in 1930. One of the early recorded versions was performed by Louis Armstrong in 1931. It was made famous by Billie Holiday, who recorded her version in 1939 for Vocalion Records. A version by Emile Ford & The Checkmates reached number 18 on the UK Singles Chart in 1960.

I fell in love with you first time I looked into
Them there eyes
You've got a certain lil' cute way of flirtin' with
Them there eyes
They make me feel happy
They make me feel blue
No stallin'
I'm fallin'
Going in a big way for sweet little you
My heart is jumpin'
Sure started somethin with
Them there eyes
You'de better watch them if you're wise
They sparkle
They bubble
They're gonna get you in a whole lot of trouble
You're overworkin' them
There's danger lurkin' in
Them there eyes
 
Maybe you think I'm just flirtin'
Maybe you think I'm all lies
Just because I get romantic when I gaze in
Them there eyes.

SAMBA DO ARNESTO

QUARTETO EM CY
COMPOSITORES: ADONIRAN BARBOSA & ALOCIN
PAÍS: BRASIL
ÁLBUM: BRASIL EM CY
GRAVADORA: CID
GÊNERO: SAMBA
ANO:1996
 
      Quarteto em Cy é um grupo vocal brasileiro  formado em 1964 pelas irmãs Cybele, Cylene, Cynara e Cyva Ribeiro de Sá Leite. É considerado o maior quarteto vocal feminino do Brasil, além de ser o mais antigo. Nascidas em  Ibirataia, Bahia, elas se mudaram para a capital carioca para trabalhar com música, contando com o apoio de Vinícius de Moraes  (que as chamava carinhosamente de "baianinhas").
               Desde 2017 o grupo é formado por Cyva, Cynara, Sonya e CorinA.
                               
O Arnesto nos convidou pra um samba, ele mora no Brás
Nós fumos, não encontremos ninguém
Nós voltermos com uma baita de uma reiva
Da outra vez, nós num vai mais
Nós não semos tatu!
 
O Arnesto nos convidou pra um samba, ele mora no Brás
Nós fumos, não encontremos ninguém
Nós voltermos com uma baita de uma reiva
Da outra vez, nós num vai mais
 
No outro dia encontremo com o Arnesto
Que pediu desculpas, mas nós não aceitemos
Isso não se faz, Arnesto, nós não se importa
Mas você devia ter ponhado um recado na porta
 
O Arnesto nos convidou pra um samba, ele mora no Brás
Nós fumos, não encontremos ninguém
Nós voltermos com uma baita de uma reiva
Da outra vez, nós num vai mais
 
No outro dia encontremo com o Arnesto
Que pediu desculpas, mas nós não aceitemos
Isso não se faz, Arnesto, nós não se importa
Mas você devia ter ponhado um recado na porta
 
Um recado assim ói: "Ói, turma, num deu pra espera
Ah, duvido que isso num faz mar, num tem importância
Assinado em cruz porque não sei escrever"
Arnesto.

TRUST IN ME

ETTA JAMES
SONGWRITERS: JEAN SCHWARTZ; MILTON AGER & NED WEVER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: AT LAST!
LABEL: ARGO RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES
YEAR: 1960
 
             At Last! is the debut studio album by American blues and soul artist Etta James. Released on Argo Records in November 1960 the album was produced by Phil and Leonard Chess. At Last! also rose to no. 12 upon the Billboard Top Catalog Albums chart.
                At Last! was ranked at #119 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It was ranked as the 62nd best album of the 1960s by Pitchfork Magazine.
               The original release of At Last! was issued as a 12-inch LP consisting of ten tracks, five songs on each side of the LP. Phil and Leonard Chess believed that James's voice had crossover pop potential, so with this debut album, they backed her with orchestral arrangements on many of the tracks. At Last! eventually spawned four singles being "All I Could Do Was Cry", "Trust in Me", "At Last", and "My Dearest Darling". The album also included covers of pop and jazz standards, such as "Stormy Weather", "A Sunday Kind of Love", and "I Just Want to Make Love to You". In 1987, the album was released for the first time by MCA/Chess, and then digitally remastered and reissued on compact disc in 1999 with four bonus duet tracks performed with Harvey Fuqua: "My Heart Cries," "Spoonful," "It's a Crying Shame," and "If I Can't Have You."

Trust in me in all you do
Have the faith I have in you
Love will see us through, if only you trust in me
Why don't you trust me?
Come to me when things go wrong
 
Cling to me daddy and I'll be Strong
We can get along, we can get along if only you trust in me
While there's a moon, a moon on high
While there are birds, birds to fly
 
While there is you, you and II can be sure that I love you...
Stand beside me, stand beside me all the while
Come on daddy face the future, why don't you smile?
Trust in me, and I'll be worthy of you
Why don't you trust in me in all you do?
Have the faith that I have in you
 
And love will see us through, if only you trust in me
Why don't you come to me, when things go wrong, cling to me and I'll be strong
We can get along, we can get along if only you trust in me...