Kirsten Thien - After I Left Home (Song for Buddy Guy)

#Blues
From the Album: Two Sides Year: 2020
Lyrics: After I Left Home (Song for Buddy Guy)

My dreams as a boy
Made me a man
Didn’t wanna be nobody’s hero
Just doing the best I can
Never saw time heal a wound
The way good blues music can
Gives you life when you feel like dying
Brings on soothing tears
When you feel like cryin’

That’s what the blues taught me
That’s what I learned
After I left home

When I come to your town
Your sons and your daughters
Gonna boogie down
They’ll be a Boogie Chillin’, Child
Oh, but, they’ll be diggin’ my sound
Carry the fire long after our time
Just like John Lee said
It’s all in the rhythm, Baby
Don’t you worry about the rhyme
Blues keep coming at you just like a weed
What I came to do is plant the seed
That’s what the blues taught me
That’s what learned
After I left home

(Driving that truck, you know there were…)
So many times at the end of my rope
Holdin’ on with these fingers, don’t you know
Do right by my kids and never give up
Never gave up, no I never, never did!
If the path you’re leading ever feels too hard
Listen to me, I’ll play you this here guitar
For you I came to play
For you I came to play
This here guitar, oh, ‘cause
That’s what the blues taught me
That’s what learned
After I left home

Here’s what the blues taught me…

…Set me on a path under these lights
Gave a tired soul wings ready for flight
That’s what the blues taught me
That’s what learned
After I left home

That’s what the blues taught me
Blues was my teacher
Blues was my school
From down in Louisiana, Baby
All the way up to cold winter, Chicago
That’s what the blues taught me
After I left home.

“Kirsten Thien’s AFTER I LEFT HOME channels all the grit and glory of Buddy Guy’s epic story. Kirsten lives at the crossroads where the blues are as new as they are ancient, forever fresh, an unstoppable force of impassioned life.”
“After I Left Home” is inspired by Buddy Guy’s autobiography When I Left Home and follows some of Buddy’s story on a straight blues with Arthur playing an extended solo that could easily be Buddy himself.

It is not every day that you encounter a graduate of Georgetown Business School who abandoned a career on Wall Street for a life in music. Playing solo or with a band, NYC-based Kirsten Thien has established a strong reputation across four previous albums, this new project inspired by the idea of the two sides of 45 rpm singles – ‘A’ and ‘B’ sides. Even though some of the songs here were written years ago they are intended to represent four single releases, with something of a theme across each pair of songs. Kirsten sings lead throughout and plays guitar on four tracks. The core band is Arthur Neilson on guitar, Tommy Mandel on keys, producer Erik Boyd on bass and Steve Holley on drums; Alex Alexander takes over the drum stool on two numbers, Raul Midón plays acoustic guitar on two and New Orleans vocalists Tarriona Tank Ball and Jelly Joseph (Tank and Jelly) appear on two tracks.

Kirsten Thien: Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Erik Boyd: Bass
Arthur Neilson: Lead Guitar
Steve Holley: Drums
Tommy Mandel: Organ

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