I mean no trouble, please don't put me down, don’t get upset...

So I never knew this song existed... !!
It was on the bootleg series from Dylan... and then on the Legacy Edition of Jeff Buckley's Grace...

How come this song is not on any official release being as good as it is.. ?

this little hidden gem...

Dylan once again is undressing our feelings.. with such plain words and simple pictures.. the soul of a man trapped in the cell of love-sickness..

I really prefer Jeff Buckley's demos than his official recordings.. because it's like when he was playing in Sin-E and nobody knew who he was..

Mama, you been on my mind.

Perhaps it is the color of the sun cut flat
An' cov'rin' the crossroads I'm standing at,
Or maybe it's the weather or something like that,
But mama, you been on my mind.

I mean no trouble, please don't put me down, don’t get upset,
I am not pleading or saying that "I can't forget you."
I do not pace the floor bowed down and bent, but yet,
Mama, you been on my mind.

Even though my eyes are hazy and my thoughts they might be narrow,
Where you been don't bother me or bring me down in sorrow.
I don't even mind who you'll be waking with tomorrow,
But mama, you're just on my mind.

I am not askin' you to say words like "yes" or "no,"
Please understand me, I have no place I’m callin’ you to go.
I'm just whispering to myself so I can't pretend that I don't know,
But mama, you're just on my mind.

When you wake up in the mornin' and look inside your mirror,
You know I won't be next to you, you know I won't be near.
I'd just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear
As someone who has had you on his mind.

I guess I'm doing fine...

What kind of answer is that ...

Well lately I feel like saying that when they ask me how am I ...

Funny How Time Slips Away (by Willie Nelson)

Well hello there my it's been a long long time
How am I doin'  oh I guess that I'm doin' fine
It's been so long now but it seems now it was only yesterday
Gee ain't it funny how time   slips away
 
How's your new love  I hope that he's doing fine
Heard you told him that you'd love him till the end of time
Now that's the same thing that you told me seems like just the other day
Gee ain't it funny how time  slips  away
 
I gotta go now I guess I'll see you around
Don't know when though never know when I'll be back in town
But remember what I tell you that in time you're gonna pay
And it's surprising how time  slips  away

...then you’d know why I feel blue

back to the 50's !! with Buddy Holly, what a legend ..

..the look he had with that glasses, the suit and the Stratocaster...

A guitar that was released in 1954 just three years before this song ...

Don McLean sang in America Pie that the day he died at 22.. the music died as well...

This last weekend we went to the mountain's country house of my mate...

We had a the best time..

Then after lunch we took the guitars out and played some tunes...

We were playing some early Beatles songs.. and I remembered Peggy Sue and asked Marc to play that repetitive drum rhythm...

And so.. with the 12 bar blues structure.. we played Peggy Sue ...

and it was magic..

Peggy Sue

If you knew Peggy Sue - then you’d know why I feel blue
without Peggy - my Peggy Sue
oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue - oh how my heart yearns for you
oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue
oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue - pretty pretty pretty pretty Peggy Sue
oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue
oh well, I love you gal and I need you Peggy Sue

I love you Peggy Sue - with a love so rare and true
oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue
well I love you gal - I want you Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue
pretty pretty pretty pretty Peggy Sue
oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue
oh well, I love you gal and I need you Peggy Sue

I love you Peggy Sue - with a love so rare and true
oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue
well I love you gal - I want you Peggy Sue

oh well, I love you gal and I want you Peggy Sue

Please don't give up on me ...

Solomon Burke died this weekend..

Learned about it from some newspaper...

This morning listening to Radio 3 ("hoy empieza todo") they paid a little tribute by playing this song..

While I was getting dressed I was absorbed by his voice.. that feeling he's putting in here..

Don't give up on me

If I fall short
If I don't make the grade
If you're expectations aren't met in me today
There's always tomorrow, or tomorrow night
Hang in there, baby
Sooner or later I know I'll get it right
Please don't give up on me
Oh please don't give up on me
I know It's late, late in the game
But my feelings, my true feelings haven't changed
Here in my heart I know, I know I was wrong, wrong, wrong
I'd like to make amends for the love that I've never ever, ever, ever shown
Just don't give up on me, every word is true
I'll give you my everything, all of my love,
All of my love, all of my love, love, love to you
Just don't give up on me,
oh please, please, please don't give up on me
I don't want you to
I know It's late, but wait please, please, please, please don't give up on me
Promise, will you promise me, will you promise me
Please don't give up on me
We can make it if we try
I'm going to hold on, hold on with me
And don't give up on me
Oh baby don't give up on me
Whatever you do we'll make it though
Don't you give up on me,
Please, please, please promise me,
Don't give up on me

scanning the scene in the city tonight..

..must be the only metal band who is respected by all generations and still make people feel good...

After reading that James Hetfield participated on an auction for Little Kids Rock organization-- I wanted to see which was the item.. and was quite surprised watching the guitar he decorated..

It carries sentences like..

Can't you do anything right..
It's not good enough..
Get outta Here..
Are you really that stupid..

Focusing on the reality of a childhood some people go through...

luckily some of the times this can be reverted through art, music or passion for any discipline...

The rest of the decorated guitars are just esthetically OK.. (Specially the one by Stan Lee)

But this one.. really made me think twice about not pretending bad times are just gone.. I guess one must have them present to never allow them to happen again

It doesn't really matter what chords I play ...

What words I say or time of day it is
As it's only a Northern song ..

I still remember when my mother bought us the film Yellow Submarine..

I was around 10 years old..

That exposure to such artistic film, with all that psychedelic meanings, the colors and the naivety...

I think that made me understand the world in a particular way..

Where only art is worth enough any effort..





Only a Northern Song

If you're listening to this song
You may think the chords are going wrong
But they're not, we just wrote them like that

When you're listening late at night
You mayo thing the band are not quite right
But they are, they just play it like that

It doesn't really matter what chords I play
What words I say or time of day it is
As it's only a Northern song

It doesn't really matter what clothes I wear
Or how I fare or if my hair is brown
When it's only a Northern song

If you think the harmony
Is a little dark and out of key
You're correct, there's nobody there
And I told you there's no one there

you'll never wait so long .... so long ... so long

Lou Reed was waiting for his man back in 69 with 26 dollars in his hand up to Lexington 125 ..

So lucky !!! the Pixies announce his man was finally coming in 1989...

Probably, both songs have no connection at all..

but they do have one for me..

"Here Comes Your Man"

outside there's a box car waiting
outside the family stew
out by the fire breathing
outside we wait 'til face turns blue
i know the nervous walking
i know the dirty beard hangs
out by the box car waiting
take me away to nowhere plains
there is a wait so long
here comes your man












big shake on the box car moving
big shake to the land that's falling down
is a wind makes a palm stop blowing
a big, big stone fall and break my crown
there is a wait so long
you'll never wait so long
here comes your man
there is a wait so long
you'll never wait so long
here comes your man