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jazz/blues with vocal

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Hi! I'm a guitarist, singer and songwriter currently living in Fredericton, N.B., Canada. I've been performing music in one way or another since the mid '60's, starting out singing tenor in a barbershop quartet with my brothers and then into a progression of bands playing rock, jazz, blues and country and... whatever. It's been a fun ride so far and I'm still as exited about it as the day I began. Ralph Atkinson

Song Info

Genre

Jazz • Jazz Vocals

Charts

Peak #31

Peak in subgenre #4

Author

R. Atkinson

Rights

R. Atkinson 2012

Uploaded

February 20, 2012

Track Files

MP3

MP3 6.8 MB • 219 kbps • 4:20

Lyrics

I've got the blues in disguise
blues in disguise
I'm wearin' a million dollar smile
but I'm payin' a price

I'm down in that part of town
where the music plays
you'll see me laughin' and talkin' up loud
but you don't realize
that I've got the blues in disguise

Don't need a bank roll or a big Cadillac
just need somebody to bring my light back

I'm down in that part of town
where the music plays
you'll see me laughin' and talkin' up loud
but you don't realize
that I've got the blues in disguise

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Ascenzion - Al Massey

Jun 08, 2012

Great singing and playing...You gotta love the standards. So sophisticated and suave.

Michael Duran

Mar 31, 2012

Great Jazz phrasing in the lyric, and bluesy melody in the vocal.
Sweet soundin' blues through & through.

Michael Bennett

Mar 06, 2012

I don't think I've heard you sing before, Ralph.
This is a cool bluesy track - - nice!

The Footnotes

Feb 24, 2012

I was loving this song, and THEN the harmonica kicked in. JOY. 
Great ! I had a harmonica on the desk beside me so joined in right away. It was perfect (your playing, not mine) and came in at just the place in the song where I was thinking "what it needs now is .....". Nice, very nice.