CORAZÓNES GUITARREROS

LOS FRONTERIZOS
CMPOSITOR: J. C. ISELLA
PAIS: ARGENTINA
ALBUM: 12-COLOR EM FOLKLORE
DISCOGRÁFICA: PHILIPS
GÉNERO: ZAMBA
AÑO: 1965
 
       La primera formación era un trío, integrado por: Gerardo López quien sería llamado «la voz de Los Fronterizos», Carlos Barbarán y Emilio Solá.
     En 1954, Solá se retiró y fue reemplazado por Cacho Valdez. Después Valdez se retiró y fue reemplazado por Eduardo Madeo, quien finalmente quedaría como integrante definitivo. Casi simultáneamente se sumó el guitarrista Juan Carlos Moreno, el tercer «histórico» que junto a López, Madeo y Barbarán conformó el cuarteto que grabaría los primeros simples.
       En 1956, Carlos Barbarán se retiró del grupo y fue reemplazado por el cantante, compositor y arreglador César Isella. Sus extraordinarias voces y los novedosos arreglos musicales fueron grandemente admirados y sus discos alcanzaron altos niveles de ventas.
Tras unos primeros años de actuaciones locales, Isella, López, Madeo y Moreno viajaron a Buenos Aires para participar en programas de radio.
        En 1964 les llegó la consagración internacional, tras la grabación de la Misa criolla de Ariel Ramírez. El gran éxito cosechado por esta obra les llevó a actuar en los más importantes auditorios del mundo. De aquí en adelante, el conjunto fue consolidándose y haciéndose conocido entre el gran público, con la colaboración del guitarrista y cantautor Eduardo Falú, del pianista y compositor folclórico Ariel Ramírez y del percusionista Domingo Cura.
         En esos años se desarrolló en la música popular argentina el movimiento de la Nueva Canción, con fuerte raigambre popular y política. Dentro del grupo se generaron tensiones debido a las diferentes ideologías políticas de sus miembros. Esto llevó en 1966 al alejamiento de César Isella, quien comenzó una exitosa carrera solista, siendo sustituido por Eduardo Yayo Quesada (1941-2012). Sin embargo, el cuarteto siguió activo por todo el mundo y participó en viajes y presentaciones, especialmente por Latinoamérica y Europa. Presentaron su célebre Misa Criolla en Nueva York, desde Manhattan hasta la Estatua de la Libertad, mostrando sus característicos trajes de gaucho. Durante este recorrido fueron entrevistados para el programa conducido por Pipo Mancera, Sábados circulares.
        Los Fronterizos es un conjunto folclórico argentino que se formó en la ciudad de Salta (en el norte argentino) en 1953.
Por el camino de tu silencio
vaga mi sombra con mi guitarra
y vuelan lejos las coplas mías, ┐
enamoradas y resentidas. ┘ [bis]
 
Pueda el capullo de tu cariño
ser recordado y enamorado,
puedan mis ojos llorar, dolidos, ┐
de una esperanza que se ha perdido. ┘(bis)
 
Corazón, corazón guitarrero,
deja que el cielo te dé consuelo,
deja en la copla tu eterna vida,
que el vino viva con tu desvelo,
 
y enamorando con los pañuelos
ira la zamba por esos cielos.
Ya que la vida me va durando
y tu recuerdo me va enredando,
quiero besarte, robarte el alma, ┐
con el aliento de mi guitarra, ┘(bis)
 
Lo quiero al tiempo por que me trae
ojos y luna, ríos y encuentro,
quiero a mis manos por que me dieron ┐
la brisa suave de tus cabellos ┘(bis)

BABY I'M-A WANT YOU

BREAD
SONGWRITER: DAVID GATES
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: BABY I’M-A WANT YOU
LABEL: ELEKTRA RECORDS
GENRE: SOFT ROCK
YEAR: 1972
 
            Bread was an American soft rock band from Los Angeles, California. They had 13 songs chart on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1970 and 1977.
             The band was fronted by David Gates (vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, violin, viola, percussion), with Jimmy Griffin (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion) and Robb Royer (bass guitar, guitar, flute, keyboards, percussion, recorder, backing vocals). On their first album session musicians Ron Edgar played drums and Jim Gordon played drums, percussion, and piano. Mike Botts became their permanent drummer when he joined in the summer of 1969, and Larry Knechtel replaced Royer in 1971, playing keyboards, bass guitar, guitar, and harmonica.
          Baby I'm-a Want You is the fourth album by Bread, released in 1972. Its singles included the title cut (which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Top 100), "Everything I Own" (Nº. 5), "Mother Freedom" (No. 37), and "Diary" (Nº. 15). This was the first Bread album to feature keyboard player Larry Knechtel.

Baby, I'm-a want you
Baby, I'm-a need you
You the only one I care enough to hurt about
Maybe I'm-a crazy
But I just can't live without...
 
Your lovin' and affection
Givin' me direction
Like a guiding light to help me through a darkest hour
Lately I'm a-prayin'
That you'll always be a-stayin' beside me
 
Used to be my life was just emotions passing by
Feeling all the while and never really knowing why...
 
Lately I'm a-prayin'
That you'll always be a-stayin' beside me.
 
Used to be my life was just emotions passing by
Then you came along and made me laugh
And made me cry...
You taught me why...
 
Baby, I'm-a want you
Baby, I'm-a need you
Oh, it took so long to find you, baby
 
Baby, I'm-a want you
Baby, I'm-a need you. 

REASONS TO QUIT

WILLIE NELSON & MERLE HAGGARD
SONGWRITERS: MERLE HAGGARD
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: PANCHO & LEFTY
LABEL: EPIC RECORDS
GENRE: COUNTRY
YEAR: 1983
 
           Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.
           Haggard was born in Oildale, California, during the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he managed to turn his life around and launch a successful country music career. He gained popularity with his songs about the working class that occasionally contained conformist and jingoistic themes contrary to the prevailing anti-Vietnam War sentiment of much popular music of the time. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, he had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart. Haggard continued to release successful albums into the 2000s.
            He received many honors and awards for his music, including a Kennedy Center Honor (2010), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), a BMI Icon Award (2006), and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1977), Country Music Hall of Fame (1994) and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (1997). He died on April 6, 2016—his 79th birthday—at his ranch in Shasta County, California, having recently suffered from double pneumonia.
            Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American musician, actor, and activist. The critical success of the álbum Shotgun Willie (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger (1975) and Stardust (1978), made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. He was one of the main figures of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. Nelson has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and has been involved in activism for the use of biofuels and the legalization of marijuana.
             Born during the Great Depression and raised by his grandparents, Nelson wrote his first song at age seven and joined his first band at ten. During high school, he toured locally with the Bohemian Polka as their lead singer and guitar player. After graduating from high school in 1950, he joined the U.S. Air Force but was later discharged due to back problems. After his return, Nelson attended Baylor University for two years but dropped out because he was succeeding in music. During this time, he worked as a disc jockey in Texas radio stations and a singer in honky-tonks. Nelson moved to Vancouver, Washington, where he wrote "Family Bible" and recorded the song "Lumberjack" in 1956. He also worked as a disc jockey at various radio stations in Vancouver and nearby Portland, Oregon. In 1958, he moved to Houston, Texas, after signing a contract with D Records. He sang at the Esquire Ballroom weekly and he worked as a disk jockey. During that time, he wrote songs that would become country standards, including "Funny How Time Slips Away", "Hello Walls", "Pretty Paper", and "Crazy". In 1960 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and later signed a publishing contract with Pamper Music which allowed him to join Ray Price's band as a bassist. In 1962, he recorded his first album, ...And Then I Wrote. Due to this success, Nelson signed in 1964 with RCA Victor and joined the Grand Ole Opry the following year. After mid-chart hits in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, Nelson retired in 1972 and moved to Austin, Texas. The ongoing music scene of Austin motivated Nelson to return from retirement, performing frequently at the Armadillo World Headquarters.
            In 1973, after signing with Atlantic Records, Nelson turned to outlaw country, including albums such as Shotgun Willie and Phases and Stages. In 1975, he switched to Columbia Records, where he recorded the critically acclaimed album Red Headed Stranger. The same year, he recorded another outlaw country album, Wanted! The Outlaws, along with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser. During the mid-1980s, while creating hit albums like Honeysuckle Rose and recording hit songs like "On the Road Again", "To All the Girls I've Loved Before", and "Pancho and Lefty", he joined the country supergroup The Highwaymen, along with fellow singers Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson.
           Pancho & Lefty is a honky tonk album by outlaw country musicians Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, released in 1983. Original vinyl copies from 1983 give the album's title as "Poncho & Lefty" on the cover, as well as on the inner sleeve and the record label; the album's title track is similarly rendered "Poncho & Lefty" on the cover, inner sleeve, and label. Later editions correct the title to the intended "Pancho & Lefty". They are backed by Don Markham of The Strangers.

Reasons to quit the smoke and beer don't do me like before
And I'm hardley ever sober and my ole friends
Don't come round much anymore
Reasons to quit the low is always lower than the high
And the reasons for quitin' dont outnumber all the reasons why
So we keep smokin and we keep drinkin
Havin fun and never thinkin'
Laughin' at the price tags the we pay
And we keep roarin down the fast lane
Like two young men feelin no pain
And the reasons for quitin' are gettin bigger each day
 
Reasons to quit I cant afford the habit all the time
And I need be sober I gotta write some new songs that will rhyme
Reasons to quit there ain't no rhyme or reason when your high
And the reasons for quitin' don't outnumber all the reasons why
 
So we keep smokin and we keep drinkin
Havin fun and never thinkin'
Laughin' at the price tags the we pay
And we keep roarin down the fast lane
Like two young men feelin no pain
And the reasons for quitin' are gettin bigger each day.

BLUE ON BLACK

KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD BAND
SONGWRITERS: KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD; MARK SELBY & TIA SILLERS
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: BLUE ON BLACK
LABEL: REVOLUTION RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES ROCK
YEAR:1998
 
       Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenny Wayne Brobst; June 12, 1977) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has released several studio albums and experienced significant commercial success as a blues artist.
          "Blue on Black" is a song by American blues rock band Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band. Written by Shepherd with songwriters Mark Selby and Tia Sillers; Noah Hunt provides the lead vocal. The song was originally released on their second studio album, Trouble Is... (1997). On April 7, 1998, it was released as a single and spent 42 weeks on the US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and rose to number one, remaining there for six non-consecutive weeks. In 2019, Shepherd teamed up with American heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch, along with country singer Brantley Gilbert and Queen guitarist Brian May for a reworked version of "Blue on Black".
            "Blue on Black" was regarded as the best rock song of 1998 by various media, including winning the Billboard Music Award for Rock Track of the Year and the song's popularity helped make Trouble Is... the 1999 Blues Album of the Year in Billboard. The song continues to be a top download of the Kenny Wayne Shepherd catalog, ranking at number one on Rhapsody. It is also his most-listened to song on Spotify with over 26 million streams.

Night falls, I'm alone
Skin chilled to the bone
You turned and you ran
Slipped right from my hands
 
(Refrão)
Blue on black
Tears on a river
Push on a shove
Don't mean much
Joker on jack
Match on a fire
Cold on ice
A dead man's touch
Whisper on a scream
Doesn't change a thing
Doesn't bring you back
Blue on black
 
Blind, now I see
Truth, lies, and inbetween
Wrong can't be undone
Slipped from the tip of your tongue
(Refrão)