The Blues Brothers - I Don't Know (Live Version) (Official Audio)

The Blues Brothers - I Don't Know (Live Version) (Official Audio)
From 'Briefcase Full Of Blues' (1978)

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Jake had a vision. It was his, the only real one he'd ever had, and he clung to it. It had always been the blues. Even back in the Rock Island City orphanage (that sweaty kid factory) Jake and Elwood were saved by the music. Actually, saved by a gray-haired janitor everybody called Curtis. He wore sinister midnight shades, a narrow black tie and a porkpie hat that he kept pushed back on his head. Curtis wrapped his waxy brown hands around his guitar neck and played the most dangerous blues this side of Robert Johnson. The nuns scorched the brothers’ days with holy threats and Curtis rescued them by night. Down in the coolness of his basement he taught them the blues and set in motion their mission: to live the healing message of music.

Silent Elwood never did put more than two sentences together, but all those lost words burned from his Special 20 blues harp. And Joliet tore that voice from some hidden darkness, twisting his chubby body, snarling at the heavens, a born sinner. They used the basement because it was secret and because the echo gave them a nice dirty sound: Howlin’ Wolf and Little Walker, slapping like a bad dream around the chilly room. And then one night, Jake brought in a gleaming E string he said came from Elmore James’ guitar. He held it tight and as it glowed in the bulb light, Jake sliced Elwood’s middle finger and then his own. Now the solo boys with soul in their blood were brothers. Jake and Elwood Blues … the Blues Brothers.

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[adamholtz]

This is the best song on the live album

[derekmyers]

I"ve been hearing this since I was 3 years old, and I understood every bit of innuendo. Old soul? Yeah. Who I was in my former life? Guaranteed to blow your mind.

[stephp]

Thanks for posting the words on the back of the album. Love that story.

[AdamHorne-pzyg]

Who's on the Hammond? Whoever it is, they're smokin!!

[markcentner]

1.24.1949 - 3.5.1982. 33 years, 1 month, 12 days old. That's how old John Belushi was when he died. MULTI-TALENTED!!!! For people who think that lack of self-structure, lack of self-discipline, lack of self-control, addiction and SELF-DESTRUCTION don't exist, WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE ☕!!!! ON 10.11.1975, SNL PREMIERED. AGE 26.5. BY THE SUMMER OF 1978, HE HAD THE #1 TV 📺 SHOW IN AMERICA 🇺🇸, THE #1 MOVIE 🎥 WITH ANIMAL HOUSE 🏠, AND THE NUMBER #1 MUSIC 🎶 ALBUM WITH THE BLUES BROTHERS. AT AGE 29.5, HE HAD PEAKED. "" TOP OF THE WORLD 🌎, MOM."" BUT THEN, HE REACHED THAT POINT THAT A LOT OF ARTISTS DID, NOT ALL OF THEM, CALLED, "" THE SOPHOMORE SLUMP "". THE STUDIOS 🎙 🎥 WANTED HIM TO DO THE SAME KIND OF SHIT AS ANIMAL HOUSE, AND HE HATED IT!!!! AND THEN, HE STUPIDLY ADDED HEROIN TO THE MIX, WHICH IS JUST A RECIPE FOR INSTANT AND/ OR INEVITABLE DISASTER!!!! IF HE HAD JUST STUCK TO ALCOHOL AND COKE, THEN QUIT THE COKE AND SWITCHED TO WEED, HE WOULD'VE LIVED. IT'S JUST VERY SAD 😥, AND HEY, DON'T FORGET CHRIS FARLEY. .... SO MUCH EDGY PROMISE AND I'VE SEEN TOO MANY PEOPLE IN THE LAST FEW YEARS DIE BCUZ OFM HARD DRUGS AND SELF-DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR!!!! IF YOU HAVE A FRIEND WHO'S OUT OF CONTROL, PUT A FOOT UP THEIR ASS!!!! SIMPLE AS THAT. FOR BELUSHI, FARLEY AND SO MANY OTHERS, WE MISS YOU, MAN!!!! R.I.P.

[nicolemorandideoliveiranik]

Tão especial, quando o saxofone é perfeito para uma dupla indomável. Amo.

[theresaaguero]

Blared this 8 track on the way down to Jersey shore in a '68 Mustang with windows down, no AC.

[carlmorell]

John Belushi one of a kind just think what could have been if he would stuck around what did I say to piss you off this time baby?

[amandakullberg]

The live versions are actually much better!

[laadidaouiomar]

Somewhat similar to "Hey Bartender"
Great though 💕

[rustyfulcher]

If you don't like this.you have no soul.

[stephp]

Anybody have a link to reliable lyrics for this? I haven't found any online that seem accurate.