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Chris Rea - Hobo Love 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

I got a hobo love

Sure can't tie me down

Now I got a hobo love

Sure can't turn me down

My mama used to say

That boy sure can't stick around

I got a thin blade in my boot strap

And I use it every day

Yeah I got a thin blade in my boot strap

And I use it every day

When they see me pull it out

Oh, they always move away

I don't know why I keep moving

Yeah I go from town to town

I don't know why I keep moving

Yeah I go from town to town

Yes, my mama she was right

I just can't settle down

I can hear the devil laughing

At the Lord from way above

Oh, I can hear the devil laughing

At the Lord from way above

Yeah, the Devil know he got me

Cos I can't quit this hobo love

Oh, the Devil know he got me

Cos I can't quit this hobo love

Can't quit it no more

I can't quit this hobo love...