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Only the Blues

from Learning Faith by Jess Klein

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I love the completely basic beat and swampiness of this track. It’s just a heartbeat and a cry, put through a vocal mic, a couple amps and a porch board. I am so grateful to Feathers for hearing the sparse simplicity of this tune. Any time in my life I’ve been at a loss as to where to go for musical inspiration, I’ve turned to the blues; it always works.

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Since the day I left my hometown
been lookin’ for a place
to lay my burden down
I walked around memphis
I pranced around paris
I drove across texas
and I knelt before Jesus
and I don’t know why
and I don’t know how
but only the blues
will take my burden now

Everybody asks me what on earth I think I’ll get
that I haven’t gotten yet
it won’t be riches
probably not fame
I still got my freedom
But the price is my pain
and i don’t know how
but only the blues
will take my burden now

so go call your doctor
go pray to your saint
buy yourself a new house
with a new coat of paint
I’ll keep my last dollar
on this three chord riff
three chords and a microphone
give me some kind of lift
and I don’t know why
and I don’t know how
but only the blues
will take my burden now

so baby I love you
with all of my heart
I will til the end
I did from the start
but when my eyes are teary
don’t think you got the cure
and it ain’t because
your love ain’t pure
I don’t know why
and I don’t know how
but only the blues
will take my burden now
only the blues
only the blues

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from Learning Faith , released July 24, 2014
Jess - electric and acoustic guitars, porchboard
Professor Feathers - bass, arp synthesizer, loops, mellotron
Billy Masters - electric guitar

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Jess Klein Hillsborough, North Carolina

Rochester, NY native Jess Klein is known for staking out brave lyrical and musical territory with such albums as Wishes Well Disguised (1998), Draw Them Near (2000), Strawberry Lover (2005), City Garden (2006), Bound to Love (2009), Behind A Veil (2012) and Learning Faith (2014) which Folk Radio UK calls “unquestionably the finest album of [her] impressive career.” ... more

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