Blues at Cees' Place

On August 15th 2006 there will be an open air concert on the Oude Gracht (on the water of the canal) at Cees'Place in association with "Inside Uit".

The Culemborg Bleus festival will take place on August 26th.

And on August 30th 2006, there will be another BAND TRY-OUT NIGHT which starts at 20.00h.

The bands are in order of performance:
1. Sleeves
2. Black tooth
3. Frown
This event will take place at Cees' Place Utrecht and the entrance is free. So note this in your schedule and be present at this event

The Sky is Crying

The sky is crying, a video with blueslegends, BB King, Albert King and Steve Ray Vaughn, I also added the lyrics of the song. This song is also on the repertoire of Eric Clapton and Nigel Mack. In my opinion its one of the most poetic bluessongs. How can you better say its raining ia a way like "The sky is crying"



The sky is cryin....
Can't you see the tears roll down the street
The sky is cryin....
Can't you see the tears roll down the street
I've been looking for my baby
And I wonder where can she be

I saw my baby early one morning....
She was walking on down the street
I saw my baby early this morning....
She was walking on down the street
You know it hurt me, hurt me so bad
Made my poor heart skip a beat

I've got a real real real real bad feelin
That my baby she don't love me no more
I've got a real real bad feelin that my baby don't love me no more
You know the sky, the sky's been cryin
Can you see the tears roll down my nose

This is a real Cool Cat

This is a gif I found on the internet, although I don't know if the cat is playing the blues, I really think this is a real Cool Cat. I wished I could heard him play, but I couldn't find any soundtrack of this performance.

Funk Band "Funk met Peren"

I have a temperoraly collegue at work who is playing the tenor saxophone. He is a member of the Dutch funk band "Funk met Peren". Find out more about this band and its members on the Funk met Peren website.

Tom Waits

A while ago I wrote about a CD I bought, called beyond Mississippi: The Blues has left the Town. On this CD a song is recorded of Tom Waits, that I like very much. Its called "Cooking Up A Filipino Box Spring Hog". Its the text that triggered me and the way Tom Waits sings this song. You like it or you don't but if you can listen to it some times, I'm sure you will like it too.

The text is from Tom and his wife Kathleen and goes as follows.

Cooking Up A Fillipino Box Spring Hog

by: Tom Waits

Well I hung on to marys stump

I danced with a soldiers glee

With a rum soaked crook

And a big fat laugh

I spent my last dollar on thee

I saw bill bones, gave him a yell

Kehoe spiked the nog

With a chain link fence

And a scrap iron jaw

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Spider rolled in from

Hollister burn

With a one-eyed stolen mare

Donned himself with chicken fat

Sawin on a jaw bone violin there

Kathleen was sittin down

In little reds recovery room

In her criminal underwear bra

I was naked to the waist

With my fierce black hound

And Im cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Dig a big pit in a dirt alley road

Fill it with madrone and bay

Stinks like hell

And the neighbors complain

Dont give a hoot what they say

Slap that hog

Gotta roll em over twice

Baste him with a sweeping broom

You gotta swat them flies

And chain up the dogs

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Rattle snake piccata with grapes and figs

Old brown betty with a yellow wig

Taint the mince meat filagree

And it aint the turkey neck stew

And it aint them bruleed

Okra seeds though she

Made them especially for you

Worse won a prize for her

Bottom black pie

The beans got to thrown to the dogs

Jaheseus christ I can always

Make room when theyre

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog

Cookin up a filipino box spring hog