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Chris Rea - Electric Memphis Blues Blue Guitars 2005, Album Number Four - Electric Memphis Blues.

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".

The collection is the fifth and last release in a line of Blues recordings Chris Rea has made since recovering from a serious disease at the turn of the millennium and promising himself a return to his Bluesy roots in the event that he survived.

Album Number Four - Electric Memphis Blues

The title says it all, "Going Electric", that's what this album is about, and what a change it was for the Blues and Blues Musicians, finally they could make themselves heard among the loud crowds and stuffed places, they usually used to play. It was a tremendous change in the way, the Blues could be approached, fine and subtle figures and fine chord structures could suddenly be played, the Blues was rising to previously unbeknown heights: "Now I can play above the bar noise, Man I'm bigger than a crowd" as Rea states in the opener "Electric Guitar", which perfectly paraphrases, what musicians must have felt, after this milestone revolution. Nor did "electric" stop at the guitars - organs, pianos, keyboards, all was going electric, studios started to play around with the new electric sound, the possibilities seemed endless.

Tracklist:

" Electric Guitar

" Electric Memphis Blues

" All Night Long

" Born Bad

" Let's Start Again

" What I'm Looking For

" Rules Of Love

" What You Done To Me

" Hobo Love Blues

" Pass Me By

" The Soul Of My Father's Shadow

" My Blue World Says Hello

Caught the midnight train

I go hustling through the night

I caught the midnight train

I go hustling through the night

Gonna jump off north of Memphis

When my hometown's out of sight

They say there's only the Devil waiting

In the big city way up there

They say there's only the Devil waiting for me

In the big city way up there

What they don't seem to know

What I been through

I just don't care, no

Gonna get me one of them

Shiny new electric guitars

I'm gonna get me one of them

Shiny new electric guitars

All my best friends say

Well, that's how they're gonna know who you are

Electric Memphis

Electric Memphis Blues

Electric Memphis

Electric Memphis Blues

Electric Memphis

See me coming through...