Sam Myers - I Got The Blues

Lyrics: I've got to leave here, I've got to find someplace to go
I've got to leave here, I've got to find someplace to go
because the way things are happening here now I don't feel welcome here no more.
Going to get up in the morning, pack up my clothes and shoes
You might think I'm joking when I tell you I'm going to Newport News
I got the Blues, ohh let me tell you I have the Blues
I'm a guy you can't excuse, ohh let me tell you I have the Blues

Begin tasty guitar solo 🎸 followed by awesome Hammond Organ solo🎹🎹😎

I tell all you working men go home a little before time
Then you catch your woman getting down wrong
Like I caught mine
That's what gave me the Blues
Ohh let me tell you I have the Blues
I'm a guy you can't excuse, ohh let me tell you I got the
BLUE OH OH OHHH BLUES

Myers was born in Laurel, Mississippi. He acquired juvenile cataracts at age seven and was left legally blind for the rest of his life, despite corrective surgery.] He could make out shapes and shadows, but could not read print at all; he was taught Braille.

He acquired an interest in music while a schoolboy in Jackson, Mississippi, and became skilled enough at playing the trumpet and drums that he received a nondegree scholarship from the American Conservatory of Music (formerly the American Conservatory School of Music) in Chicago. Myers attended school by day and at night frequented the nightclubs of the South Side.

There he met and was sitting in with Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Little Walter, Hound Dog Taylor, Robert Lockwood, Jr., and Elmore James. Myers played drums with Elmore James on a fairly steady basis from 1952 until James's death, in 1963, and is credited on many of James's historic recordings for Chess Records. In 1956, Myers wrote and recorded what was to be his most famous single, "Sleeping in the Ground", a song that has been covered by Blind Faith, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, and many other blues artists; it was also featured on Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour show on "Sleep".

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[muharremburhanbuzkran]

No matter if our numbers are small who listens to blues, I can say we are all grown up and full of this soul!Greetings from Turkey.

[karwansaad]

Im a man with simple tastes,
In the morning I listen to the news,
At nights,
I listen to the blues.

[AKAdrej]

I just discovered the Blues music genre. this is perfect.

[vittoriobevilacqua]

I'm 17 listening to this, i'm astonished from the beauty of Blues

[daddyteddy]

This IS MUSIC am 36 years old and i am hooked on the BLUES

[djgene]

That last verse was great, pure blues. "All you wicked men, go home a little before time, then you catch your woman gettin down wrong, like I caught mine.."

[tammycantrell]

I’m 50 and it’s just like I discovered the blues. Man I missed out but it’s like I have a whole new broadband of new music to delve into and I’m hooked. Man this is the bomb!!!

[lordsiomai]

Blues is one of the best genres when expressing pain and sorrow through music. Thank you for this man!

[snow]

I’m 22 and I’m so glad I found this music while I’m young

[bernardjones]

I had the honor of playing a lot of gigs with Sam back in the day.

[SuryadiPrakoso]

One of the most beautiful song of I Got the BLUES 💙💙💙💙 SAM MYERS 💙❤️♥️ My Favourite 💛🧡♥️❤️💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

[Heyhojoshyoji]

I'm sad, stress, loneliness and found this song, it's make me feel alive relaxing chilling and bring a positive vibes to me. Thank God

[Ramon-ky]

The greatest gathering of guitarist ever...

[PortgasDAce-ypcf]

I was in Zanzibar Tansania for a month and we went in the evening to a restaurant and there was a american with his guitar, this was the first time I listened to blues. It really was an especially relaxed night through him and now 3 months later I still listen to this genre. Its just beautifully…

[Jboy]

Dude! Same here! I’m stoked! And absolutely shocked at how much I like it. I was born in 93 and listened to main stream music from the 2000’s. A lot of stuff I heard on the radio. Why the f isn’t this mainstream? Holy shit, so much talent, with out all toxic bullshit from mainstream media.

[zainabalhialyv]

I wonder if it ever occurred to him when he sang this song that his song will be heard 41 years after by an Iraqi girl half across the world and she would just fall in love with it .
Thank you for sharing such a masterpiece ❤️

[paulmulheron]

❤Had a terrific reunion with an ol colleague in Wentworth Durban...this is one of the blues song he played alongside with my mate on harmonica in his lounge...memorable.

[hepzsp]

Reporting in for that blues tune 2023 and I still need this in my life

[mydrissafilalidrissialami]

The blues is the history and the story of the black American 🇺🇲👍👍❤️🇲🇦