Album: Blues For The Lady, Vocals: Margie Evans, Producer Philipp Fankhauser https://www.philippfankhauser.com/?t=checkerboard-blues-band Photos from Carrie Mae Weems: The Kitchen Table Series - https://carriemaeweems.net/galleries/kitchen-table.html, Lyrics:
I'm having trouble with the women.
I'm having trouble with the men.
I'm having trouble with my diet.
Cause I just can't win.
Trouble, trouble, trouble…
Trouble is always dogging me around.
And if my luck don't hurry up and change,
Oh, baby, I got to leave this town.
Trouble on my job, trouble in my home.
Trouble, trouble, trouble, everywhere I roam.
Oh so much trouble.
Lord! What in the world I'm gonna do?
Oh and if my luck don't hurry up and change,
Oh I'll go insane.
Then I had to pawn my watch.
Oh I had to give up my rings.
Seems like I got to give up everything.
Oh so much trouble.
Lord! What in the world is going to happen to my?
Oh what's going to happen to me?
Oh if something don't hurry up and change
Oh I'll think I'll go insane.
Won't you play the blues for me, baby? Play!
Now you letting me know you know what trouble is all about.
Way down deep you know what it's all about.
Seems like you know that down I've been.
Down I've been. Oh getting up feels mighty good to me.
Oh yes it feels good.
Oh I've been down so very long, oh getting up,
Getting up feels mighty good to me
And I'm asking you, baby, when you see me,
When you see me won't you rock me baby.
Put your arms all around me and rock me all night long.
Oh! I got so much trouble, baby! Why don't you rock me all night long.
Rock me all night long. Oh won't you rock me, baby. Make me feel like, make me feel like I belong.
Now I want to hear some organ on this song.
Let me tell you why I need to hear it. Way down south I heard… Oh my mama played it for me, baby, played the blues, yes she did. Play your song, baby.
Trouble, trouble, trouble, why do you always dog me around? Why do you dog me around?
Oh trouble, trouble, trouble, why do you dog me around? Well I ain't gonna take it no more baby, oh! I'll leave your town. Oh, oh, oh! Trouble, trouble, trouble! Trouble is all in the world I seen. All I seen. Oh trouble, trouble, trouble. Yes it's all in the world I've seen. Oh yes it is. Oh, one day, one day, one day I am gonna be free!
Thanks to fivetimesyo for the lyrics
Philipp Fankhauser is a Swiss blues singer/guitarist who experienced Top Ten success in his homeland after two decades of recording activity. Born in 1964 in Thun, Switzerland, he began playing music during the late '70s after taking an unlikely interest in the blues as a teenager. His interest in the blues was compounded after he attended the 1981 Montreux Jazz Festival, where he witnessed firsthand a performance by Albert Collins. Other American blues legends he saw at the Montreux Jazz Festival during the early '80s included such luminaries as B.B. King, Koko Taylor, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. In particular, a 1984 performance by Johnny "Clyde" Copeland left a lasting impression on Fankhauser; in fact, the two became acquainted and the Texas legend became a mentor to the Swiss novice, whose performance career was becoming a full-time occupation around this time period.
In 1987 Fankhauser founded the Checkerboard Blues Band and began touring throughout Switzerland, playing dozens of shows a year. The Checkerboard Blues Band featured vocalist Margie Evans, and made their recording debut in 1989 with Blues for the Lady, which Fankhauser produced and on which he also sang.
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