Blues Wisdom... Chicken Shack for your Soul
Are you having problems?
The Blues can do something no other music can do.... Wille Dixon said ...
"You can learn Wisdom from the Blues"
Are you going bald?
"... I did more for you than the good lord ever done... I gave you some hair ... when he ain't give you none ...
... give me back my wig..."
Hound Dog Taylor (Give me back my Wig)
Is Drinking messing up your life?
".. you know Gin has got me so I don't know what to do...
My wife has left me....and my girlfriend too..."
Paul Butterfield (I'm Drunk Again)
Troubles at Work?
"... you ain't so Big ... you're just tall ... That's all."
Jimmy Reed (Big Boss Man)
How about Theology?
... I pray " Lord have Mercy... Lord have Mercy on me!"
T Bone Walker (Stormy Monday)
Girl Trouble!
"... I 'm like a mississippi blue frog sittin' on a hollow stump...
I got me so many womens... I don't know which way to jump!"
Big Joe Turner (Flip Flop and Fly)
more girl trouble?
"... I got a woman as mean as she can be.. sometimes I think
she is almost as mean as me "
Roy Orbison (Mean Woman Blues )
more girl trouble?
"... My babe don't stand no cheatin' ... no stayin' out late..
no midnite creepin'..." Little Walter ( By Babe)
more girl trouble?
"... that same thing... that same thing...
everybody is fightin' about that same thing."
Willie Dixon (The Same Thing)
Does everybody hate you and nothing gos your way?
".... everyday...everyday I have the blues... you know when you see me
worried... it's you I hate to loose..
you know...nobody loves me... nobody seems to care...
heartache and trouble... you know I've had my share..."
B.B.King (Everyday I have the Blues)
Having Men trouble?
"... you ain't nothin' but a Hound Dog ... creepin round my door"
Big Mama Thorton ( Hound Dog)
Sick of all the above problems?
You need to have a party and blow off your troubles...
"... we are going to pitch a Wang Dang Doodle...
All Night Long.. All Night Long"
Willie Dixon (Wang Dang Doodle)
now that that is over...
feeling better yet?
Uh.... I FEEL GOOD... I knew that I would...so good ...so good.. I gotta a you!
James Brown ( I feel good)
The Godfather of Soul (blues first cousin)
Still don't feel that good because things still aren't that good...
How about you just move on a little down the Road?
" ... you know things are good right here but they are better down the road."
"...just ... walk on ...walk on.. walk on... walk on... you have to keep on walkin'
till you find your happy home"
Brownie Magee ( Walk On)
Speaking about Roads...
Still not feeling good because you have been done wrong and you
just can't get it out of your mind?
... further on down the Road... somebody is going to mistreat
you the way you mistreated me... further on down the road..
you just wait and see...
the Wisdom of the Blues...
I feel better already... don't you?
...there is a dark side to life...I suggest that you might want to
stay away from that...you know..
"I Ain't Superstitious but... a black cat done crossed my trail"
Willie Dixon (I ain't Superstitious)
Would you like to become a blues musician?
Maybe you know one? You might ask yourself...
Why does he do that? What is wrong with him/her?
"...well Mama she told Papa about a thing she heard...
Papa he told Mama...don't you believe a word...
You have got to let the boy Boogie...
Let the Boy Boogie....
Just Let the Boy Boogie...
...He has got it in him and... it just has to come out
John Lee Hooker ( Let the boy Boogie)
Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones Bass player for decades) who now plays with his own band the Rhythm Kings was asked
if White men could play the Blues ... his answer...
"If they try hard enough"
.... Well that about does it for now ...come back from time to time
and check out the "Blues Wisdom" page..
It there something you would like to add?
e mail me at bigharmonicabob@netscape.net
and share a blues saying with me and I just might
add it to the collection.
Long Live the Blues
Big Harmonica Bob
