Chris Rea - KKK Blues (Birmingham Symphony Hall) video free download

Chris Rea Live from 2006 - The Road To Hell And Back "The Farewell Tour".

KKK Blues from Blue Guitars. Album Number Two - Country 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

''The chilling 'KKK Blues' on the other hand, featured banjo and dobro, and Senegalese scales to tell the harrowing story of the Ku Klux Klan''.

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:

I don't know where I'm going

All I know is I got to move away

I don't know where I'm going

All I know is I got to move away

I don't know where I'm going

All I know is I got to move away

I got a fear inside me

Call it the KKK

Well they beat up my woman

Found her lying in a field of hay

Well they beat up my woman

Found her lying in a field of hay

They sent a posse out

But the posse

They all in the KKK

Well there's a mess upon the ground there

My brother hanging from a tree

Well there's a mess upon the ground there

My brother hanging from a tree

I got to move away, so fast

Cos the KKK gonna get me.