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Muswell Hillbillies was the band's first album for RCA Records, [2] their prior recordings having been released on Pye Records (Reprise Records in the United States). Their contract with Pye/Reprise expired the same year.
Traditional blues verses in folk-music tradition have also been called floating lyrics or maverick stanzas.Floating lyrics have been described as “lines that have circulated so long in folk communities that tradition-steeped singers call them instantly to mind and rearrange them constantly, and often unconsciously, to suit their personal and community aesthetics”.
Bob Dylan wrote "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues", a protest song and talking blues song, in 1962. [1] [2] The song was inspired by an incident where George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party and an anti-communist, arrived in a Nazi uniform outside a theater showing Exodus (1960), a film about the founding of Israel. [3]
"Born Under a Bad Sign" is a blues song recorded by American blues singer and guitarist Albert King in 1967. Called "a timeless staple of the blues", [2] the song also had strong crossover appeal to the rock audience with its synchronous bass and guitar lines and topical astrology reference. [3] "
By the end of the 1980s, he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia [12] and institutionalized for two months after his diagnosis. [13] During childhood, Willis developed an interest in art, and in 1988, he was featured in a Chicago public access documentary feature created by Carl W. Hart titled Wesley Willis: Artist of the Streets. [14]
"Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In" is a psychedelic rock song written by Mickey Newbury and best known from a version by the First Edition, recorded in 1967 and released to popular success in 1968.
Sykes added lyrics to the tune and recorded it as "44 Blues" on June 14, 1929, for Okeh Records. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] According to blues historian Paul Oliver , Sykes' lyrics "played on the differing interpretations of the phrase 'forty-fours'—the train number 44, the .44 caliber revolver and the 'little cabin' on which was the number 44, presumably a ...
Syd Barrett was an English singer, songwriter, musician and painter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. He was known to be reclusive. [1] [2] [3] Reclusiveness may coincide with mental disorders and some persons may have speculative diagnoses of schizophrenia (see List of people with schizophrenia), but this does not mean that Barrett's songs, and the songs about him, concern ...