Chris Rea Live from 2006 - The Road To Hell And Back "The Farewell Tour".
That's The Way It Goes from Blue Guitars. Album Number Six - (Chicago Blues)
The Road To Hell And Back "The Farewell Tour" DVD
Filmed live at the Birmingham - Symphony hall • April 18th, 2006.
Τhe DVD captures a brilliant performance on Chris Rea's farewell tour set. To the the delight of fans present on the night, Rea delivers a balanced set of his greatest hits (Road to Hell parts 1 & 2, Stainsby Girls etc) along with selections from his more recent blues/jazz/roots orientated releases.
The hits work because they are presented in a stripped back, simplified way that represents more closely how they were original conceived and written (as Rea says in the accompanying documentary DVD - all his songs start out as blues songs).
The recent cuts benefit from the live renditions, delivered as they are by a collection of rather excellent musicians who have worked with Rea for quite a long time.
Credits:
Composed By, Liner Notes, Artwork By [Paintings], Vocals, Slide Guitar -- Chris Rea
Bass Guitar -- Sylvain Marc
Drums -- Martin Ditcham
Guitar -- Robert Ahwai
Keyboards -- Paul Hirsh
Liner Notes -- David Sinclair
Mastered By -- Simon Heyworth
Producer, Engineer, Liner Notes -- Simon Honywill
Art Direction, Design [@ Peacock] -- Jon Tricklebank
Blue Guitars is a Blues album released by Chris Rea on October 14, 2005 consisting of eleven CDs, one DVD and a full colour book, including paintings by the artist, liner notes and song lyrics. The album is an ambitious project with the 137 songs recorded over the course of 1½ years with a work schedule - according to Chris Rea himself - of twelve hours a day, seven days a week. Initially the project was inspired by Bill Wyman's "Blues Odyssey" and can be called an "odyssey" in its own right, for depicting a journey through the various epochs of Blues Music, starting at its African origins and finishing with modern-time Blues from the 60s and 70s. Subsequently the eleven CDs are titled the following: "Beginnings", "Country Blues", "Louisiana & New Orleans", "Electric Memphis Blues", "Texas Blues", "Chicago Blues", "Blues Ballads", "Gospel Soul Blues & Motown", "Celtic & Irish Blues", "Latin Blues" and "60s & 70s".
Lyrics:
She was a good time girl
Everybody know her name
Oh she was a good time girl
Everybody knew her name
She took off with a hustler
Never been seen again
He was a pool room genius
Broken heart and a broken nose
Yeah, he was a pool room genius
Broken heart and a broken nose
Well, how he ended up in the chiller
Nobody knows
That's just the way it goes
So many saw it coming
That dangerous path they chose
Oh so many saw it coming
That dangerous path they chose
But ask anybody down on Maxwell
They say that's just the way it goes
Oh, that's just the way it goes
That's just the way it goes
Well, ask anybody down on Maxwell
They say that's just the way it goes
That's just the way it goes 'round here
That's just the way it goes 'round here, yeah
Ask anybody down on Maxwell
They say that's just the way it goes, oh yeah
That's just the way it goes 'round here, yeah
Ask anybody down on Maxwell
They say that's just the way it goes, oh yeah.