The Blues have been a big influence in my life…my father a Jazz musician and writer…he wrote for Jazz Journal in the UK and a discography of Art Tatum with Arnold Laubich as well a a book called the Jazz Piano Players Handbook, which I would love to turn into a website (if this project interests you please get i touch). A good friend of mine now is an excellent Blues Guitarist and I love to listen to all styles of Blues.

In fact the way my father and i reconnected during those difficult adolescent years was through the blues , i remember pulling out a silver record sleeve from gis collection which happened to be of Joe Turner the Blues singer, my Dada was out, so i put it on his stereo and was captured, i have never looked back.

When I am down there is one track i love to listen to by Champion Jack Dupree, called Door to Door Blues

The lyrics are superb and I have transcribed them here, but it is the melancholy piano phrasing that goes with them that gets me every time.
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Door to Door Blues by Champion Jack Dupree

I remember when I was a kid

And I had no place to go

I was going around beggin

I was beggin from Door to Door

I had no place to sleep

And I had no place to go

I was too young to have friends

Too young to have friends that I know

Well I didn’t know nuthin

I had nuthin but worries every place I go

I just kept on goin

Tryin to live the live i know

It looked awful lonesome

When you don’t have no friends around

When you don’t have nuthin to smoke

And you got to pick up tobacca off the ground

You say Lord have mercy

What wrong have I done

And then to myself

yeah ss that a feelin

what wrong have I done

to be like I am

My mother shes gone

and my father too

My sisters and brothers

Don’t pay me no mind

Well nobody wants me

My time is all on my mind

But I say Lord have Mercy

Yeah…. on me

Say maybe some day

And it won’t be long

Well I’ll meet a friend

Will carry me along

Well if I tell that , yeah til that day

I’ll keep on now

oh oh yeah…oh oh yeah

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