Blues In The Night

Ronald · **Posted:** Oct 23, 2008 3:41 pm

My mama done tol me, when I was in pig tails
My mama done tol me, hone
A man is a two-face, he’ll give you the big eye
And when the sweet talkings done
A man is a two-face, a worrisome thing who’ll leave ya to sing
The blues in the night

Now the rains a-fallin, hear the trains a-callin,
"whooee!"
Hear that lonesome whistle blowin cross
the trestle, "whooee!"
a-whooee-ah-whooee, clickety-clack
a-echoin back
Blues in the night

From Natchez to mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the
four winds blow
I been in some big towns and heard me some big talk, but there
is one thing I know
A man is a two-face, a worrisome thing who’ll leave ya to sing
The blues in the night

Instrumental

My mama done tol me, when I was in pig tails
My mama done tol me, hone
A man is a two-face, he’ll give you the big eye
And when the sweet talkings done
A man is a two-face, a worrisome thing who’ll leave ya to sing
The blues in the night

My mama done tol me

Written by Arlen / Mercer
Published by Chappell Music Ltd
From the album 'Piece By Piece'

JosCR66 · **Posted:** Oct 23, 2008 3:44 pm

Katie's best blues performance by far. One of the "hidden" highlights of PbP.
(they're too many to count!!)

Ela · **Posted:** Oct 23, 2008 3:45 pm

I really didn´t realize we had not include every song in the song only discussion..
I love that one, and Justin´s harmonica solo is great!

spicyapple · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 1868

I really dislike this song. I cannot put my finger on it but it has that quasi-blues sound from an underdeveloped singer without the experience or gravitas to pull off such a performance. I'm sure Katie has improved vastly in her live performances but the CD version is lacking.

The phrase "my mama done tol me" somehow or another I find unappealing.

Ronald · **Posted:** Oct 23, 2008 3:55 pm

I still think this song is great :music:

Mariska · **Posted:** Oct 23, 2008 6:46 pm

m2,live with the band the song rocks

KEWA · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 9360

I did like it very much, when I heard it on PBP, but it really killed me, when I heard it during the tour 2006. That song has an incredible power

Lepton · **Posted:** Oct 25, 2008 3:23 pm

It's really a great live song, but I like the PbP version as well. :music:

Patreides · **Posted:** Oct 26, 2008 4:02 am

I prefer the NSJF version because of that particular moment at 2:34. In that one moment Katie's voice sounds perfectly together with Justin's harmonica. That's amazing. "...in the niiiight..."

(Youtube with its sound quality spoils it a little, but just a little, and luckily we have the wmv and divx records of this concert.)

KEWA · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 9360

Patreides wrote:

I prefer the NSJF version because of that particular moment at 2:34. In that one moment Katie's voice sounds perfectly together with Justin's harmonica. That's amazing. "...in the niiiight..."

(Youtube with its sound quality spoils it a little, but just a little, and luckily we have the wmv and divx records of this concert.)

Wow, I didn't know that. Thank you, Patreides

Patreides · **Posted:** Oct 28, 2008 4:33 am

KEWA wrote:

Wow, I didn't know that. Thank you, Patreides

You didn't know that? :frownk:

I just can't believe it. :mrgreen:

Although, to be honest, I'm a little tone-deaf. But just a little. :suspect:

I mean... I don't have a (sense of) absolute pitch, unfortunately.

I don't mean to fabricate a new "urban legend" about Katie.
All I know is that I love that moment, for some reason.

KEWA · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 9360

Patreides wrote:

You didn't know that? :frownk:

I just can't believe it. :mrgreen:

Siocnarf360 · **Posted:** Nov 2, 2008 12:48 am

I like the album version, but the live version is much better, very intense :music:

cjc3636 · **Joined:** Jul 24, 2009 **Posts:** 24

This one on the CD is okay....but it is like she isn't quite 'there' yet with such a powerful song.

Live, specifically AVO Session, it is a totally different story. The song just blossomed. It had me at the begining, when the camera pans to her face on '...hon', I stared at my computer monitor, mouth open. I played it over and over that first week.

I'm thinking about replacing my ipod Piece by Pice playlist "Blues" with the AVO one. I hardly ever play the studio version anymore.

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