Long John Hunter - Still Blue

Album: Ride With Me, Buy: https://amzn.to/2G2KOzW
Lyrics: Still blue
I'm still blue for you
I'm still blue
I'm still blue for you
If I can't have you in my life
I'd always be blue for you
Still red
My eyes are still red from cryin'
Still red
My eyes are still red from cryin'
I know you've told me goodbye
But you can't blame a man for tryin'
Still blue
I'm still blue for you
Still blue
I'm still blue for you
You were walking out the door
My heart is walking out with you

Thanks to AmyLnnLee

For much too long, the legend of Long John Hunter was largely a local one, limited to the bordertown region between El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico. That's where the guitarist reigned for 13 years (beginning in 1957) at Juarez's infamous Lobby Bar. Its riotous, often brawling clientele included locals, cowboys, soldiers from nearby Fort Bliss, frat boys, and every sort of troublemaking tourist in between. Hunter kept 'em all entertained with his outrageous showmanship and slashing guitar riffs.

The Louisiana native got a late start on his musical career. When he was 22 and toiling away in a Beaumont, Texas box factory, he attended a B.B. King show and was instantly transfixed. The next day, he bought a guitar. A year later, he was starring at the same bar that B.B. had headlined. Hunter's 1954 debut single for Don Robey's Houston-based Duke label, "She Used to Be My Woman"/"Crazy Baby," preceded his move to El Paso in 1957. Along the way, Phillip Walker and Lonnie Brooks both picked up on his licks. But Hunter's recording output was slim -- a few hot but obscure singles waxed from 1961 to 1963 for the tiny Yucca logo out of Alamogordo, New Mexico (standouts include "El Paso Rock," "Midnight Stroll," and "Border Town Blues"). Perhaps he was just too busy -- he held court at the Lobby seven nights a week from sundown to sunup.

Photos of Norah Jones, B.B. King, Taj Mahal, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins.

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