Chris Rea - 90's Blues

''90's Blues'' from 1992 Album ''God's Great Banana Skin''.

This album was written & recorded at Miraval Studios, France and mixed at The Mill Studios, Berkshire, England.

Chris Rea was interviewed at The Mill Recording Studio, Cookham, Berks on 22nd September 1992 by John Pidgeon.

''90's blues pleases me in as much as it is Chris Rea with the blues. There's a very strong top line violin part within it, so it's not, as somebody said, Chicago blues, and I said no it's mine - it's Chris Rea in the Thames Valley in the 90's.

I don't go in for buying a Little Walter record and just trying to sound exactly like him.
You know you do find a lot of blues players who do nothing but copy what somebody else has done.
Whereas this is me with the blues, consequently it has got certain inflections that black American blues hasn't got.
I make no mistake about the fact that black American blues is black American blues, it should be left alone as black American blues.
And if some other guy from another culture has the blues then it should take its own form''.

Lyrics:

Well I look out of my window
I see the morning cold and grey
I look out of my window
I see the morning cold and grey
I told you so many years ago
They're all gonna end up, end up this way

Well the fat man took my money
And the daughter won't give it back
The fat man took my money
Sons and daughters won't give it back
Put my family out on the street
Put my marriage on the rack

Well they steal your water
And if you want some you got to pay
The greenies point their fingers
The people know better they don't listen what they say
They live in fear and frustration
Oh their crappy lives why should they give a toss anyway

Nineties blues
Nineties blues
Nineties blues.


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

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