Steve’s
CD – “The Steve Hill Blues Band” is now available
“The Steve Hill Blues
Band” features Steve on guitar, vocals and harmonica and contains the
following songs:
1.
“Long,
Slow Train” (2:28 )
2.
“Crossroad
Blues” (3:59 )
3.
“Drown
in My Own Tears” (4:59 )
4.
“Baby,
Please Don’t Go” (2:29 )
5.
“Reefer
Madness” (3:15)
6.
“Mercy
Now” (4:43 )
7.
“Nobody
Knows You When You’re Down and Out” (3:42)
8.
“Louisiana
2005” (2:49 )
9.
“Louisiana 2:41 )
10. “Satisfied Mind” (4:04 )
11. “Walking Blues” (3:04 )
12. “Talking Tomato Blues” (3:04 )
To order a copy, send a check for
$12.97 to Steve Hill, P.O. Box 17331 , Salem , OR 97305
To listen to a song go to CD Baby
iTunes Link
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Steve's Top 29 Blues CD's
This list is not based on sales or any other scientific criteria, but it is updated at least monthly to include recent recordings as well as classic blues albums. I welcome your input.
The "Top 29" CDs, as well as other CD's by members of the Blues Hall of Fame, listed below, are available to listen to or purchase from Amazon.com by clicking on a link.
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Learn to play the blues your own self. Order The Blues Fake Book
Steve's List of Classic Blues Songs - Listed in alphabetical order by title, every song on my list is linked to an album that contains the song. In most cases, you can go there and listen to a clip, download it or even buy the album.
I am continually adding to this list. If you are trying to find a particular song that isn't on the list, send me an e-mail and I will try to find it for you.
Many of these songs have been covered or recorded by several different artists. Let me know if you would like to add a version of the same song by another artist.
Thanks.
Steve
Members of the Blues Hall of Fame
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John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson Other Blues/ Music Sites Allman Brothers / All Music / Austin
City Limits Festival Bad
Dog Blues / Big
Lyrics / Billboard / Blind
Pig Records / Blues Art / Blues Beat / Blues Cruise / The Blues Directory / Blues
Revue / Blues
World / Borders / Boston Blues / Britt Music Festival - Jacksonville,
Oregon / Buddy Guy's
Legends/ Bull Durham Blues
Festival / Eva Cassidy
/ CD Covers / CD Now / Robert Crumb's Legends
of Blues / Document Records / Bob Dylan / Early Blues / Electric
Blues / Farm Aid
/ Fastixx / Harvest Moon
Blues Festival / Heritage
Music Blues Fest / House of Blues /
Junior's
Juke Joint / KBOO / KINK / Living Blues / Louie's
Juke Joint / Lyric Crawler / Lyrics World / Memphis in
May / Music
Box / Music Directory / New York State Rhythm & Blues
Festival / North
Atlantic Blues Festival / Pocono Blues Festival / Pollstar / Real Blues / Rock & Roll Hall of Fame / Rock the
Joint / Roy Rogers / Curtis Salgado
/ San
Francisco Blues Festival / Shrimp
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Terraplane Blues Recorded by John Lee Hooker and others I feel so lonesome, You hear me when I moan --- I feel so lonesome, You hear me when I moan, who's been drivin' my Terraplane for you since I been gone? Flash your lights, mama, your horn won't even blow; Flash your lights, mama, your horn won't even blow --- Got a short in this connection, it's way down below. Lift your hood, mama, I got to check your
oil; Lift your hood, mama, I got to check your oil --- I got a woman I'm lovin' way down in The coils ain't buzzin', generator won't get no spark; The coils ain't buzzin', generator won't get no spark --- Motor's in bad condition, got to get the battery charged. It's a good little Terraplane, baby, but you been drivin' it night and day; It's a good little Terraplane, baby, but you been driving it night and day It's a good little Terraplane, mama, but it won't last long the way you drive. Louie, Louie by Richard Berry Recorded by The Kingsmen, The Kinks and others Chorus Louie, Louie, oh baby, me gotta go, yi-yi-yi-yi-yi --- Louie, Louie, oh baby, me gotta go A fine girl who waited for me, I catch a ship across the sea, I sailed the ship all alone, I wondered when I'm gonna make it home (Chorus) Three nights and days I sailed the sea, I think of the girl constantly, on the ship I dream she's there, I smell the rose that's in her hair (Chorus) I see Jamaican moon above, see the girl I'm thinking of, I take her in my arms and then, say I'll never leave again. (Chorus) |
Susan Tedeschi
/ Susan Tedeschi
Band / Telluride Blues & Brews Festival
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Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out by Ida Cox Recorded by Bessie
Smith, Eric
Clapton and others Once I lived the life of a millionnaire, spending money like I didn't care Taking my friends for a mighty fine time, drinking high priced liquor, champaigne and wine Then all at once I fell so low --- didn't have no money and no place to go If I ever get my ha/nds on a dollar again, I'm going to hold on to it 'til the eagle grins Nobody knows you when you're down and out In your pocket not one penny and your friends, you ain't got any But as soon as you get on your feet again, everybody wants to be your long, lost fried It's mighty strange without a doubt --- nobody knows you when you're down and out. |
The Sky is Crying by Elmore James The Sky is crying, look at the tears roll down the street, the sky is crying, look at the tears roll down the street, I'm waiting for my baby and I wonder where can she be? I saw my baby one morning walking down the street, I saw my baby one morning walking down the street, It made me feel so good, my heart would skip a beat. I got a bad feeling that my baby don't love me anymore, I got a bad feeling that my baby don't love me anymore --- now the sky's been crying, the tears rolling down my door. |
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Ain't That Lovin' You Baby by Jimmy Reed You know I love you, baby, you know I love you, baby, you know I love you baby, but you don't even know my name Let me tell you, baby, tell you what I'd do --- I would rob, steal, kill somebody just to get back home to you Chorus: Ain't that lovin' you baby? Ain't that lovin' you, baby? Ain't that lovin' you, baby, but you don't even know my name. Let me tell you, baby, tell you what is true: they could drop me in the river, I'd swim to the bank just to get back home to you (chorus) They may kill me, baby and bury me like they do; my body might die, but my spirit would rise and come back to you (chorus) |
Messin' With the Kid by Junior Wells What did I hear goin' on around town? You're tellin'everybody you're gonna put the kid down --- You been takin' my money, then bitin' my hand, You've been messin' with the kid, you've been messin' with the man. Chorus Whoa, whoa, whoa --- look at what you did You can call it what you want --- I call it messin' with the kid. You know the kid don't jive & the kid don't play --- I say what I mean & I mean what I say (chorus) I work all day on an 8-hour shift, then you spend all my money like it was a gift (chorus) Anything you want, you just have to say, I'll get it for you baby, soon as I get paid (chorus) You take the kid's car & drive around town, You told everybody you're gonna put the kid down --- Whoa,whoa, whoa --- look at what you did --- You can call it what you want, I call it messin' with the kid. |
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Down Home Blues by G. Jackson - recorded by Z.Z. Hill She said, " Your party's jumping and everybody's having a good time and you know what's going through my mind ... Do you mind if I get comfortable and kick off these shoes? While you're fixing me a drink, play me some of those down home blues". Then she said, "You know I don't get out much on the town and you know I done cut out a lot of my running around ... Oh, you know, I been keepin' my cool. But tonight I'm gonna let my hair down and get down with those down home blues." Chorus Down home blues, down home blues --- all she wanted to hear was some down home blues, all night long, baby on a record or two, she said, "Take off those fast records and let me hear those down home blues." She said, "You know my old man is gonna want to fight because of the hour I'll be coming home tonight, but I don't care ... Tonight I'm gonna do as I choose. I'm gonna get my head back and party on those down home blues. |
Definition of "The Blues" by John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 - June 21, 2001)
"…the blues was here the day that the world was born. Sadness, loneliness; it come from man and woman. A woman gets sad 'bout her man done left her, man gets sad 'bout his woman done left him … started hummin' sad songs. Somethin' 'bout a woman. You can't say nothin' … a man can't say nothin' that ain't about a woman. A woman can't say nothin' without sayin' somethin' about a man. That's what it come from, now, 'cause even Adam was in the garden. It's no sin. Do you see in the Bible anywhere where singin' is a sin? This leads into what I'm going to say. God, if there is such a thing as God, because we all believe in a Supreme Being: he wants you to do right, love people all over the world, and that's what I'm doing. I'm serving people all over. I'm serving people, I'm reachin' out, getting' people, helpin' people. I do benefits, I gives 'em. That's treatin' 'em as God want. And I never see 'em, I never will see 'em. But my voice is all over the world. John Lee Hooker on a record. I'll be here for ever, but my body won't. Accordin' to the Bible, you doin' what God want you to do: help people . People that need help: the sick, the needy, crippled kids. I do's all of that. I study givin'. I'm a Christian, but I just don't run to church. I don't believe in runnin' to church. I don't believe in getting' on my knees prayin'. I don't believe in that."
"…I don't know nothin' that'll stop me from playin' the blues. I'll never retire. I'll be doing this until God Jehovah call me to the next world, and I'm hopin' I can play there. Once you a blues singer in your blood, you can retire from the public, but in your heart and in your blood you never retire 'til you gone. You know I wrote that song --- me and Van Morrison did it --- called 'Never Get Out of These Blues Alive?' I'll never --- I'll never get out of these blues alive. Yeah."
"I never build myself us. I let the people do that. I'm the most laid-back person, and I let them build me up. If you ask me, I say, 'I''m just a guy playin' some blues."
- from Boogie Man by Charles Murray (2000)
Playing the Blues for Cows by Georgia Tommy Dorsey
"Went
down to
- from The Voice of the Blues by Jim O'Neal
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