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Bright Lights, Big City
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My 'Mock Live' version of a favourite song played by bands in the 1960s UK 'Blues Boom'. An imaginary Friday Night gig at The Station Tavern , Cleckheaton. Yep, it was loud in that smoke filled concert room upstairs...let that guitar feedback.
uk guitar blues boom
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Pop/Rock, Psychedelic, Ambient, Rhythm & Blues and beyond.
Major Snagg is the invented name of the 'band' that perform all my own musical creations. (songs and instrumentals). I play guitars, bass, rudimentary keyboards, harmonica, and sing. Melody has always been important to me... lyrics and guitar solos have to say or communicate something. I create musical worlds that I hope that you dear listener, will also want to explore and live in for a few moments...or longer if you feel that way inclined.
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Genre
Blues • Electric Blues
Charts
#73 today Peak #9
#16 in subgenre Peak #4
Author
Songwriters: Norman Jesse Whitfield / Charles Wing
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original song writers
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April 11, 2023
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MP3 10.5 MB • 320 kbps • 4:34
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WAV 46.1 MB
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Energy
relaxed, cool
high-energy
Story behind the song
Here's my re-creation of a 'Live' gig at The Station Tavern, Cleckheaton. A packed concert room upstairs. Soak up the atmosphere. Yep, it was very loud back then. How did we manage to haul those 4 x 12 speaker cabs up those narrow stairs?. Well, we did...and we carried them right back down afterwards. What tremendous days. To make this feel as much like a 'live' gig as possible, I recorded everything only as 1st. takes. No overdubs allowed. So, if I made a slight slip-up, it had to stay ... fortunately, this was a pretty awesome 'gig'.
Lyrics
Bright Lights, Big City ( recorded by Jimmy Reed) Bright lights, big city, gone to my baby's head bright lights, a big city, gone to my baby's head I tried to tell the woman, but she don't believe a word I said It's all right, pretty baby, gonna need my help someday all right, pretty baby, gonna need my help someday You're gonna wish you had to listened to some of those things I said, Bluesy guitar solo: Go ahead, pretty baby, go and knock yourself right out go ahead, pretty baby, go and knock yourself right out I still love you baby, 'cause you don't know what it's all about Bright lights, a big city, they went to my baby's head bright lights, the big city, they went to my baby's head, I tried to tell the woman, but she don't believe a word I said.
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Nigel Hardy
Apr 19, 2023
Nice live feel to this. Oh yeah a real foot tapper. Great work!
steveweyman
Apr 14, 2023
Another great live blues track ! That guitar tone is fantastic and so well played ! Really enjoyed listening to all these tracks . Feels like I’ve been to a blues and rock n roll gig . Cheers David !
MichaelDuran
Apr 13, 2023
That's exactly what a live Blues band is all about, great ambience to make this all work, and work it does!!
digitalskull
Apr 13, 2023
Always incredible things going on here. Your production is top of the heap as expected. Nice job.
rodrica
Apr 13, 2023
You do this "live" thing brilliantly!! Fantastic guitar work, love that tone! Vocals are sparkling - I'm right there in the front row!!
MartynYoung
Apr 12, 2023
This is so live, love it
JESUSOLDMAN
Apr 12, 2023
all first takes?? oh this is very impressive indeed. nothing 'fake' about it.