BEFORE THEY MAKE ME RUN

KEITH RICHARDS
SONGWRITERS: KEITH RICHARD & MICK JAGGER
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: SOME GIRLS
LABEL: ROLLING STONES
GENRE: BLUES ROCK
YEAR: 2009
 
      "Before They Make Me Run" is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones, featured on their 1978 album Some Girls.
        Written by guitarist Keith Richards, the song is a response to his arrest for heroin possession in Toronto in February 1977. The criminal charges and prospect of a prison sentence loomed over the Some Girls recording sessions and endangered the future of the Rolling Stones.
      In the lyrics, Richards reflects unapologetically on his lifestyle up to that point. The line "it's another goodbye to another good friend" in the first verse can be interpreted as referring to Gram Parsons, Richards's close friend who died in 1973 from a drug overdose, and/or to heroin itself: Richards had sought medical treatment for heroin addiction following his arrest in Toronto, and his resolution to overcome his addiction would be a significant factor in his upcoming trial.
         Richards recorded the song in five days without sleeping. Originally entitled "Rotten Roll", the song was recorded in a Paris studio in March 1978 during one of Mick Jagger's absences from the Some Girls sessions. The completed track - "a high-energy rock & roller"- features Richards on lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars and bass; Ronnie Wood on pedal steel guitar, slide guitar and backing vocals, Charlie Watts on drums, and Jagger on backing vocals.
         Richards first performed the song in concert on the New Barbarians' tour of North America in 1979; it was not until the Steel Wheels Tour in 1989 that it entered the Rolling Stones' concert repertoire. Like "Happy", the song has become one of Richards' "signature tunes", performed on most Rolling Stones tours since 1989; he also played it on the X-Pensive Winos' 1992-93 tours promoting his album Main Offender.
        Live performances of the song are included in the Stones' 2003 Four Flicks DVD collection and as bonus tracks in their 2013 and 2016 DVD & Blu-ray sets Sweet Summer Sun: Hyde Park Live and Havana Moon.
     Steve Earle has also performed the song in concert and has recorded it as part of a split single with the Supersuckers
Worked in bars and sideshows along the twilight zone
Only a crowd can make you feel so alone
And it really hit home
Booze and pills and powders, you can choose your medicine
Well it's another goodbye to another good friend
 
After all is said and done
Gotta move while it's still fun
Let me walk before they make me run
After all is said and done
I gotta move, it's still fun
I'm gonna walk before they make me run
 
Watched the taillights fading, there ain't a dry eye in the house
They're laughing and singing
Started dancing and drinking as I left town
Gonna find my way to heaven, `cause I did my time in hell
I wasn't looking too good but I was feeling real well
 
After all is said and done
I gotta move I had my fun
Let us walk before they make me run
 
After all is said and done
I did alright, I had my fun
I will walk before they make me run.

THE HOUSE IS ROCKIN'

STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN & DOUBLE TROUBLE
SONGWRITERS: Doyle Bramhall & Stevie Ray Vaughan
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: IN STEP
LABEL: EPIC RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES ROCK
YEAR: 1989
 
         Stephen Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock band Double Trouble. Although his mainstream career only spanned seven years, he is considered to be one of the most iconic and influential musicians in the history of blues music, and one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
         Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Vaughan began playing guitar at age seven, initially inspired by his elder brother Jimmie Vaughan. In 1972, he dropped out of high school and moved to Austin, where he began to gain a following after playing gigs on the local club circuit. Vaughan formed the band Double Trouble in 1978 and established it as part of the Austin music scene, which soon became one of the most popular acts in Texas. He performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1982 where David Bowie saw him play and contacted him for a studio gig, resulting in Stevie playing his blues guitar on the album Let's Dance (1983) before being discovered by John Hammond, who interested major label Epic Records in signing them to a record deal. Within months, Vaughan achieved mainstream success with Double Trouble for the critically acclaimed debut álbum Texas Flood. With a series of successful network television appearances and extensive concert tours, he became the leading figure in the blues revival of the 1980s. Playing his guitar behind his back or plucking the strings with his teeth like Jimi Hendrix did, he earned unprecedented stardom in Europe which later resulted in breakthroughs for guitar players like Robert Cray, Jeff Healey, Robben Ford and Walter Trout, amongst others.
     During the majority of his life, Vaughan struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. He also struggled with the personal and professional pressures of fame, and his marriage to Lenora "Lenny" Bailey. He successfully completed rehabilitation and began touring again with Double Trouble in November 1986. His fourth and final studio álbum In Step reached number 33 in the United States in 1989; it was one of Vaughan's most critically and commercially successful releases and included his only number-one hit "Crossfire". He became one of the world's most highly demanded blues performers, and he headlined Madison Square Garden in 1989 and the Beale Street Music Festival in 1990.
         On August 27, 1990, Vaughan and four others were killed in a helicopter crash in East Troy, Wisconsin, after performing with Double Trouble at Alpine Valley Music Theatre. An investigation concluded that the cause was pilot error and Vaughan's family later filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Omniflight Helicopters, which was settled out of court. Vaughan's music continued to achieve commercial success with several posthumous releases and has sold over 15 million albums in the United States alone. In 2003, David Fricke of Rolling Stone ranked him the seventh greatest guitarist of all time. Vaughan was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, along with Double Trouble bandmates Chris Layton, Tommy Shannon, and Reese Wynans.
          In Step is the fourth studio album by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble released in 1989. The title In Step can be seen as referring to Vaughan's new-found sobriety, following the years of drug and alcohol use that eventually led Vaughan into rehabilitation. It was also Vaughan's final album with Double Trouble, and also Vaughan's last album to be released during his lifetime. In 1990, he recorded a collaboration album with his brother, Jimmie Vaughan, called Family Style; later that year, Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter crash.

Well - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother come on in
 
Kick off your shoes start losin' the blues
This old house ain't got nothin' to lose
Seen it all for years start spreadin' the news
We got room on the floor come on baby shake sumpin' loose
 
Well - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother come on in
(Solos Piano and Guitar)
 
Well - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother come on in
 
Walkin' up the street you can hear the sound
Of some bad honky tonkers really layin' it down
They've seen it all for years and got nothin' to lose
So get down on the floor shimmy 'til you shake sumpin' loose
 
Well - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother come on in
I said the house is a rockin' don't bother come on in.

SHE’S CRAZY

J T COLDFIRE
SONGWRITER: RODNEY CROWELL
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: CRAZY SUN
LABEL: 30-06
GENRE: BLUES
YEAR: 2008
 
        JT Coldfire has played professionally for over 15 of his 31 years from Texas to New York and across the pond in Europe. Throughout his career, JT has gained the reputation as one of the hardest working musicians in Austin, sometimes playing 3 shows in a single evening never repeating the same song twice for over 9 hours of live performance. His travels all over the Texas Gulf Coast, klahoma, Tennessee, New York and as far off as Sweden, have gained an audience that is as dedicated to his performances as he is to delivering them. His virtuosity as a singer/songwriter/guitarist/producer has garnered praise as one of the unsung heroes of the new crop of Austin blues artists.
           Although his guitar playing has been compared to the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Freddie King, his style is all his own as he draws from numerous influences for a cocktail of traditional yet progressive interpretations; one minute leaning toward Muddy Waters and the next toward BB King but always sounding like himself. Raw & Real. His authoritative stage presence is emphasized by his bellowing, guttural voice that will falsetto or growl to garner response.
           His newest release "Crazy Sun" shows the range of his songwriting as no two songs sound alike but still have JT's fingerprints all over them. This new record drips of his abilities in several styles providing a powerful blend of American Roots Music that can only be described as Raw & Real.
     Rodney Crowell (born August 7, 1950) is an American musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music. Crowell has had five number one singles on Hot Country Songs, all from his 1988 album Diamonds & Dirt. He has also written songs and produced for other artists.
          He was influenced by songwriters Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. Crowell played guitar and sang for three years in Emmylou Harris' "Hot Band".
         He has won two Grammy Awards in his career, one in 1990 for Best Country Song for the song "After All This Time" and one in 2014 Best Americana Album for his album Old Yellow Moon.
Let me tell you a story
About a little girl I know
When she walks into a room
You know she steals the show
She's crazy
And it's more than I can stand
I'm just crazy 'bout that woman
And she's just crazy about this man
 
She wakes me every morning
With that tender loving touch
Some fools don't get enough
But she just loves me too much
She's crazy
And it's more than I can stand
I'm just crazy 'bout that woman
And she's just crazy about this man
 
She always wants me around
But I don't ain't got no time
But you know she's got these little ways
To make me wanna change my mind
She's crazy
And it's more than I can stand
I'm just crazy 'bout that woman
And she's just crazy about this man.

ADIÓS PAMPA MÍA

LOS CINCO LATINOS
COMPOSITORES: FRANCISCO CANARO; IVO PELAY & MARIANO MORES.
PAIS: ARGENTINA
ÁLBUM: POR SIEMPRE LOS 5 LATINOS, VOL. 2
DISCOGRÁFICA: ARTEMIS RECORDS
GÉNERO: TANGO
AÑO: 2017
 
          Los Cinco Latinos é um grupo vocal-instrumental do rock and roll da Argentina ainda está ativa, estabelecida em 1957. Considerado por muitos como o grupo vocal discurso mais famoso de todos os tempos foi um dos primórdios do rock latino e um dos primeiros grupos a cantar rock em espanhol, bem como em alcançar a fama mundial, replicando estilo doo wop de The Platters. É liderada por uma mulher, Estela Raval, algo incomum na época de sua origem, e seu marido, o trompetista Ricardo Romero, junto com Hector buonsanti, Mariano e Francisco Jorge Crisiglione Pataro, este último substituído em 1960 por Carlos Antimori.
          Em 1957 eles gravaram seu primeiro single com a Columbia ("Young Love", "Abrir as janelas") e em 1958 seu primeiro álbum (Wonderful, Wonderful, Columbia, 1958), acompanhado pela orquestra de Waldo de los Rios, com grande sucesso como "Recordándote" (que alcançou o segundo lugar no ranking da Discomania Mundo transmitir programa para toda a América do WRUL Nova York), "Young Love", "Abrir as janelas" e uma tampa na ultrafamoso espanhol "Only You" (Só você). Imediatamente alcançou um extraordinário circulação internacional foi mantida por muitos anos. Eles fizeram shows ao redor do mundo, vai jogar o Ed Sullivan Show e dividiu o palco com o ourives (The Platters), sendo seu maior hit, "Ballad of a trombeta."
      "Adiós Pampa mía" es un "tango campero" compuesto por los músicos argentino Mariano Mores y uruguayo Francisco Canaro, con letra del poeta argentino Ivo Pelay. Fue estrenado en vivo en el Teatro Alvear de Buenos Aires, el 11 de agosto de 1945 cantada por Alberto Arenas acompañado por la orquesta de Francisco Canaro, como parte de la revista musical El tango en París, dirigida por Francisco Canaro y libro de Ivo Pelay. Es uno de los diez tangos más difundidos de la historia.
            La versión Canaro/Arenas fue grabada el 24 de agosto de 1945 y lanzada como disco simple por el sello Odeon (5270 A).
        Poco después la canción fue grabada por la Orquesta de Francisco Lomuto con el canto de Alberto Rivera, el 24 de octubre de 1945 (RCA Victor 488425). Ese mismo año la grabó la Orquesta de Aníbal Troilo cantada por Alberto Marino (15/11/1945 RCA 60-0825), y por Libertad Lamarque acompañada por la orquesta de Alfredo Malerba (27/12/1945RCA). El 28 de enero de 1946 la graba la Orquesta de Francisco Canaro en la voz de Nelly Omar, en lo que fuera el primer disco de la cantante.

Adiós, Pampa mia
Me voy, me voy a tierras extrañas.
Adios, caminos que he recorrido, rios, montes y quebradas.
Tapera donde he nacido
 
Si no volvemos a vernos, tierra querida
Quiero que sepas que al irme dejo la vida
Adiós! Al dejarte, Pampa mia,
Ojos y alma se me llenan con el verde de tu pasto
Y el temblor de las estrellas
Con el canto de los vientos y el sollozar de viguelas
Que me alegraron a veces y otras me hicieron llorar
 
Adiós, Pampa mia
Me voy camino de la esperanza
Adiós, llanuras que he galopado, sendas, lomas y quebradas
Lugares donde he soñado
 
Yo he de volver a tu suelo cuando presienta
Que mi alma escapa como paloma, hasta el cielo
Adiós, Pampa querida
Adiós.