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Chris Rea - No Wheels Blues, Blue Guitars Album Number Five - Texas Blues.

Blue Guitars is a Blues album released by Chris Rea on October 14, 2005 consisting of eleven CD's, 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 CD's 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".

Album Number Five - Texas Blues

And yet another direction, the Blues was morphing into. Take the basic concept, move it into the "modern wild west" and what you get out of it is straightforward Texas Blues. It's all in there, endless highways, run-down trucker bars, oil, dirt, cowboy boots, stories about life on the move, all down in Texas, all just as sad as the original Blues (Lone Star Boogie, No Wheels Blues). The mixture of the basic Blues concept with more country and western styled instruments (slide guitars, harmonica) gave the Blues a rawer, yet again still instantly recognizable sound, which has played a major role in music ever since - go Stevie Vaughan and ZZ Top!!

"I still remember, the place we used to go, dreaming dreams of Texas, as we pushed hard through the snow" - Chris Rea

Tracklist:

" Lone Rider (Texas Blues) - 4.44

" Texas Blue - 5.10

" No Wheels Blues - 5.02

" Lone Star Boogie - 5.16

" Blind Willie - 6.48

" The American Way - 4.07

" Angellina - 4.47

" Truck Stop - 4.49

" Weekend Down Mexico - 4.20

" Texas Line Boogie - 4.41

" Too Big City - 5.02

" Houston Angel - 3.59

"No Wheels Blues"

I'm standing by a streetlight

I'm hitching for a ride

Got no car keys in my cold hands

With a burning fire inside

You ain't nothing without four wheels

There's no pride in walking home

Got to get some money somehow

Got no job, can't get no loan

Got no girl, I got no friends

Busted pride in busted shoes

I got the no wheels blues

See that T bird on the corner

Oh lord, don't she look so fine

I got to find some money somehow

I got to make that T bird mine

I'm an ace without a license

I'm a champ without a car

Only a GT badge can save me

And gasoline can heal my scars

Without those car keys

She'll never have me

I'm just some punk with worn out shoes

I got the no wheels blues ...