Chris Rea - Sing Out The Devil (Blue Guitars, Album 1, Beginnings)

Chris Rea - Sing Out The Devil, Blue Guitars - Album number One – Beginnings, 2005.

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 one – Beginnings

The first album of this set deals with the very beginnings of the Blues, tracing its ways back to its African roots.
Living conditions were hard, many African natives were taken captives and transported across the ocean to be sold as slaves, sometimes even betrayed by their own people, which is vividly depicted in the song "The King Who Sold His Own".
All in all it was an environment, where it was only natural for the Blues to develop, and even though the instrumentation and the construction of the songs was still very different from what we now know as Blues, the basics were already there: the sadness, the strain, the burdens, the depression, the feeling of "blue" and – of course – the underlying musical structure.

Track list:

" West Africa
" Cry for Home
" The King Who Sold his Own
" White Man Coming
" Where The Blues Come From
" Lord Tell Me It Won't Be Long
" Work Gang
" Praise The Lord
" Sweet Sunday
" Sing Out The Devil
" Boss Man Cut My Chains

Sing out the Devil, take him, shake him down
Sing out the Devil 'til he hits the ground
Sing out the Devil

Cut him out
Cut him clean
Cos there’s only ever bad blood where he just been
Sing out the Devil, shake him down
Sing out the Devil 'til he hits the ground

Sing out the Devil

Oh I’m crying to the Lord above
Oh I’m crying Lord above
Don’t you feel my fear?
You’ve got to help me
When Satan comes near

Sing out the Devil

Can you hear me, can you hear me
Oh I’m crying, yeah I’m crying
Sing out the Devil, yeah, sing out the Devil
Come on
Sing out the Devil...

This video has been published with absolute respect and admiration to Chris Rea's music !

[borsh]

Chris Rea is the greatest musician, for me he is higher in talent than the Beatles, although I respect and love the Beatles, God grant him health and new creative successes and prosperity, I hope that I will see him again on tour in Moscow ....

[cyganicha]

Athenamats, you are unsurpassed at what you do with Chris Rea's music! Thank you!!!! ❤