There are three similar bands with the same name.
1. Blues Company - Hun… Read Full Bio ↴There are three similar bands with the same name.
1. Blues Company - Hungary's No.1 Motorcycle-Blues Band
2. Blues Company - Germany´s No.1 Blues Band
3. Istambul Blues Company (İstanbul Blues Kumpanyası) - Blues band from turkey
1.) A Blues company 1994-ben alakult magyar rockegyüttes, amely jellegzetes, blues alapú zenéjéről, és humoros, gyakran vulgáris hangvételű szövegeiről vált híressé. Gyakran lépnek fel motorostalálkozókon, fesztiválokon.
Tagok (2004-es felállás):
* Szabó „Blöró” István: ének, vokál, dob, billentyűsök
* Szabó Edit: ének, vokál
* Mészáros Gergely: szólógitár
* Szilágyi Dénes: basszusgitár
* Odor Gábor: szájharmonika
Albumok:
* Kispirics (2001)
* Magyarország-Motorország (2002)
* 2003 (2003)
* Barmok bolygója (2005)
* Hajrá magyarok (2007)
2.) This band is hot. Very, very hot. And those aren't just empty words. After all, the Blues Company from Osnabrück, Germany is neither a hodgepodge of rank beginners nor – to borrow business lingo – a group of new business starters. Rather, they are a team of artists who have made their mark, musicians with experience and know-how aplenty. The musicians at work here have long since ensured that the name of their “company” is a recognised “seal of approval”. In a nutshell, “Blues Company” stands for German's longest-running and most successful blues band. And with each new recording, with each concert, these pros underscore that their passionate love affair with the blues is burning brightly as ever.
Has their playing become routine? Not a chance. Quite the contrary, as can be seen in the fruitful interplay between the performers and their enraptured public. This in turn energises the band, whose fans feast on a free-spirited performance of the music Blues Company lives and breathes.
Since the '60s, the blues have inspired practically every generation of enthusiastic young, white musicians. Blues Company itself hasn't been around quite that long. The band started up its blues crusade on 20th May 1976. That was the day they first climbed on stage to fire up the audience into a twelve-bar frenzy. After countless other live missions, they proudly celebrated their first 30 years in the spring of 2006.
Initially, Blues Company concerts were not just a mix of fun and hard work. They were pioneering events. Because until Blues Company came to be, blues in Germany – performed by professional bands – quite simply didn't exist. What did exist were tours by American blues greats, who often enjoyed higher esteem in Europe than in their homeland. The Blues Company musicians backed up many of these bluesmen at their concerts in Germany. Thus they not only got to know the old masters, they garnered the admiration of countless blues freaks. Since then, many a basement musician who's strapped on a guitar or settled down on a drum stool to indulge in the twelve-bar sound can thank the Blues Company for leading the way (far off over the German border, a young, very talented Blues guitarist from Hungary admitted that he was significantly influenced by this band, after hearing one of their concerts).
The Company itself has demonstrated tremendous staying power - and Todor “Toscho” Todorovic, the band's co-founder as well as singer, guitarist, composer and sound freak makes sure of this. The bluesman was born in 1951 in Lingen, in the Emsland region of northern Germany. His parents, who were born in Yugoslavia and who had fled to West Germany after the Second World War, gave their son a variety of opportunities to expand his musical horizons. And what Toscho learned from them and from grand old men of the blues including B.B. King and Muddy Waters would one day become the lifeblood of “his” Blues Company.
Toscho not only plays the blues, he lives and breathes them. Blues without compassion would be unthinkable. Thus for years the band's leader has organised benefit events both large and small in his adopted country. For his commitment to social concerns, the city of Osnabrück awarded him the Public Service Medal in 1993.
Because the blues are performed live, Toscho has worked unceasingly on his image as an entertainer. It is pure delight to watch his facial reactions to a catchy refrain, to see how he electrifies the crowd with a breakneck guitar solo or entrances his listeners with a lush melodic figure, how he wakes emotions with his distinctive, dark voice. And with experienced band members at his side. The current line-up – in effect the core band – includes second guitarist Mike Titre (member of the band since 1980), Arnold Ogrodnik on bass and organ and Florian Schaube on drums.
The band has chalked up an impressive number of performances throughout Europe over the past 25-plus years: 3,000 to date. And even in the US clubs, the band is now viewed as an insider's tip, with the band's market value on the rise.
And not only that: the fact that Germany's most tireless, ever-present and longest-lived blues band is also its most commercially successful is due to the superb quality of its studio recordings. Quite a few of its 20-odd albums are amongst the best-selling German blues recordings ever, including “Damn! Let's Jam” (1991), “Vintage” (1995), the Best Of “Blues, Ballads and Assorted Love Songs” (1997), “Invitation To The Blues” (2000) as well as “From Daybreak To Heartbreak” (2003), in collaboration with Scott Billington, the renowned US producer.
With the CDs they purchase, their fans also honour Blues Company's non-purist approach to their music. The band thrives on change. “Blues is always changing – that's what keeps it alive” is their creed. And in this way they have cultivated an innovative, open-minded, free association with the Blues genre: Whether rock, soul or the New Orleans grove, it goes without saying that these are all part of their musical repertoire, and they love experimenting with fresh sounds. In 1999, Toscho brought in the “Fabulous BC Horns” – Uwe Nolopp on trumpet and tenor sax player and arranger Robert Kretzschmar. And with the “Triple X Horns” (= BC Horns plus four other wind players), a jazzy big band sound enters the picture. At the time of their 30th anniversary they performed together with the NDR Big Band (North German Broadcasting), who, as is well known, have always been open-minded towards new things.
Their 2005 combo coup was also a real surprise. For “The Quiet Side Of Blues Company”, Todorovic and Titre gave their beloved Fender guitars a breather, and so, leaving their electric guitars behind them, the quartet went acoustic. In lovingly “unplugged” arrangements, audiences were presented with oldies from Robert Johnson to Muddy Waters, paired with the odd Blues Company hit.
After this unabashedly relaxed return to the roots, the origins of the blues, in their new album “Hot and Ready to Serve”, Toscho & Co. once again show off the talents for which they are best known and loved: they serve up powerful, modern, guitar-based blues. Just as the cover unmistakably suggests, the music is a "gumbo", a dish directly from New Orleans, very nourishing and sharply flavoured, with every possible ingredient that grows and flourishes in the enormous garden of blues. Driving rhythm and blues from the fifties (“Till The Lights Go Out”) and boogaloo (“My Guitar And Me”) stand side by side with funny music (“Soon Or Later”), profound ballads (“Dark Day”), a scat number by the Boss (“Shake It Don't Break It”) and Toscho's tribute to the great Freddie King with “Hideaway/Peter Gun Theme”.
Such complex, versatile music, such superior lyrics. Once again, Toscho does not limit himself to laments for a lost love or to describing the wonderful feeling that a blues musician gets when up there on the stage in their element. He does do this. But he does more, he sings about street urchins (“Kids”) and homeless people (“Soon Or Later”) in the First World country, Germany, or he reflects on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the upheavals in Eastern Europe which followed this (“The People”). In “Plastic People” (with Mike Titres in his first singing appearance in a Blues Company record) the song again talks of the plastic world of today, in which people are becoming ever more artistic.
Only “Hollywood” remains. In this song Toscho talks of a point at which he feels himself to be at “the pinnacle of his musical career”. In the autumn of 2006, the many time award-winning American film producer and script writer, Ian Gurvitz knocked at the door of the Blues Company and their record company. He wanted to use the song “Blue And Lonesome” from the album “Keepin' The Blues Alive” as the theme song for his film “L.A. Blues”.
It was the first time that Hollywood has ever imported a blues song from Germany. Lately this makes particular sense as the Blues Company is an international player with an internationally successful product.
3.) IBC was found in October 1993, as the ever and the last "string band" oriented band of Turkey; by Sarp Keskiner (vocal, guitar, harmonica, mandolin, washtub bass, banjo, foamboard, shaker) and Salih Nazım Peker (vocal, mandolin, banjo, baglama), both being the band's founding and mentor members. Circa 1997 and just after release of the debut album "Kokler (The Roots) (Ada Muzik); IBC enjoyed the vast repertoire of traditional blues of late 30's to late 50's; by covering many blues standarts but always being keen to blend acoustic rural blues with a slight touch of Turkish baglama music's essential ingredients. Also in 1997, IBC turned out the be the main base for some vitalising folk - blues projects like Tuzlu Nehir (Salty River), Mama & Friends and Mardi Gras; which each of them did perform tracks from masters like Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Blake, Fred McDowell, Mahalia Jackson, Leadbelly, etc...
During the "revival movement of Istanbul Underground" circa 1998 - 1999, the band was a unique and a leading voice in Turkish underground music community by addition of Orcun Basturk (vocals, drums, objects, gongs, bells) from Replikas, besides other bands like Baba Zula, Nekropsi and Replikas; but modelling Alexis Korner's Blues Inc. to host various musicians without any hesitation to launch a "completely free line up" motto; as whomever did practice any kind of blues, gospel, cajun, acustic, electronica, collective improvisation and Anatolian psychedelic rock were very welcome to the line up within Turkish boundries; until their "farewell tour" in May 2000, just after releasing their second album "Sair Zamanlar (Other Times)" in 1999 by Doublemoon Records.
During 1997 - 2000; IBC line ups recruited innumerous musicians, who'd later rule Turkish jazz, latin, punk, blues, post rock or pop rock arenas, nationally or internationally; circa 2000 and 2010.
Some examples are featured on their latest and updated Myspace pages: (circa 1997 - 1998) (circa 1998 - 2000)
Keskiner joined the ever first and the last electric Chicago style blues band in Turkey in 1996; Moe Joe, which was founded by Vefa Karatay (bass) and Feramerz Ayadi (guitar) in 1994; also bringing the names like İlhan Babaoglu (tenor and alto saxophone) and Tugrul Aray (harmonica, flute, tenor saxophone) from IBC's latest line up to Moe Joe's. After countless gigs and tours and festivals; since 1996, Moe Joe still runs the show as a quartet, but without Babaoglu and Aray. In 1999, Keskiner founded Kirika with Salih Peker and Orcun Basturk of IBC: and he was the founder member - producer - composer of Saska (2000 - 2004):
With IBC's debut album in 1997, Kökler, Keskiner has started his carrier as musical director and productor. He has thus far been a compositor, lyrics author, arranger and producer in following albums:
"Sweet Mother Nature's Child" (Chris Chavez, 1999), "Sair Zamanlar" (IBC, 1999) "Chicago Istanbul Mainline" (Moe Joe, 2000) "Sokkur Saska" (Saska, 2004): "Yuri Skies" (Sarp Keskiner, Erdem Helvacioglu, Umut Caglar, Ozun Usta, 2009: "The Great Republic of Southernsides" ([[The Great Republic of Southernsides, 2010) www.sweetpapalowdown.com: Live recordings 2002 - 2010
Vefa Karatay is a current member of Moe Joe: and www.sweetpapalowdown.com
Tugrul Aray is an optional member of www.sweetpapalowdown.com; besides composing music for advertorials.
Orcun Basturk is the current and the founder member of Replikas & Kirika; while being the founder member of ill fated Saska:
Ozun Usta (congas, cabasa, bells) did record live with Moe Joe and IBC circa 2000 and 2002, as being the founder member of Tamburada (2004 - 2006): [9]. Recently; he is hailed as an artist of and he plays with Korhan Futaci & Kara Orkestra:
Discography
Kökler (1997, Ada Müzik)
Sair Zamanlar (1999, Doublemoon, Keskiner)
Line-up
KOKLER (THE ROOTS, 1997)
Sarp Keskiner - Vocal, various guitars, harmonica, mandolin, banjo, electric guitar, washboard, spoons, keys, cans, clay bird flutes, shakers, tambourine, sticks
Salih Nazım Peker - Vocal, mandolin, banjo, acoustic saz, darbouka, acoustic guitar
Erke Erokay - Electric and acoustic guitars
Serkan Ayman - Drums and bells
Burak Guven & Oya Erkaya (Ayman) - Bass
Suna Suner - Vocals
İlhan Babaoglu - Alto saxophone, bass vocals
Erdem Tonguc - Farfisa organ, piano
Murat Ertel - Fx guitars (Blues Un Fidayda)
Feramerz Ayadi - Guitar solos (Sleepdeep Blues)
Ibrahim Yasar - Acoustic rhythm guitar (Pick A Bale Of Cotton)
SAIR ZAMANLAR (OTHER TIMES, 1999)
Sarp Keskiner - Vocal, guitar, electric guitars, tambourine, kaval, harmonica
Salih Nazım Peker - Electric saz, acoustic saz, bouzouki, vocal
Vefa Karatay - Bass
Orçun Baştürk - Drums and bells, piano, conga, timbals
Tuğrul Aray - Harmonica, tenor saxophone, saxoflute, pipes, kaval
Ertan Tekin - Zurna, mey and cura mey (Biskotin, Izmir'e Donus, Kirik Hayatlar)
1. Blues Company - Hun… Read Full Bio ↴There are three similar bands with the same name.
1. Blues Company - Hungary's No.1 Motorcycle-Blues Band
2. Blues Company - Germany´s No.1 Blues Band
3. Istambul Blues Company (İstanbul Blues Kumpanyası) - Blues band from turkey
1.) A Blues company 1994-ben alakult magyar rockegyüttes, amely jellegzetes, blues alapú zenéjéről, és humoros, gyakran vulgáris hangvételű szövegeiről vált híressé. Gyakran lépnek fel motorostalálkozókon, fesztiválokon.
Tagok (2004-es felállás):
* Szabó „Blöró” István: ének, vokál, dob, billentyűsök
* Szabó Edit: ének, vokál
* Mészáros Gergely: szólógitár
* Szilágyi Dénes: basszusgitár
* Odor Gábor: szájharmonika
Albumok:
* Kispirics (2001)
* Magyarország-Motorország (2002)
* 2003 (2003)
* Barmok bolygója (2005)
* Hajrá magyarok (2007)
2.) This band is hot. Very, very hot. And those aren't just empty words. After all, the Blues Company from Osnabrück, Germany is neither a hodgepodge of rank beginners nor – to borrow business lingo – a group of new business starters. Rather, they are a team of artists who have made their mark, musicians with experience and know-how aplenty. The musicians at work here have long since ensured that the name of their “company” is a recognised “seal of approval”. In a nutshell, “Blues Company” stands for German's longest-running and most successful blues band. And with each new recording, with each concert, these pros underscore that their passionate love affair with the blues is burning brightly as ever.
Has their playing become routine? Not a chance. Quite the contrary, as can be seen in the fruitful interplay between the performers and their enraptured public. This in turn energises the band, whose fans feast on a free-spirited performance of the music Blues Company lives and breathes.
Since the '60s, the blues have inspired practically every generation of enthusiastic young, white musicians. Blues Company itself hasn't been around quite that long. The band started up its blues crusade on 20th May 1976. That was the day they first climbed on stage to fire up the audience into a twelve-bar frenzy. After countless other live missions, they proudly celebrated their first 30 years in the spring of 2006.
Initially, Blues Company concerts were not just a mix of fun and hard work. They were pioneering events. Because until Blues Company came to be, blues in Germany – performed by professional bands – quite simply didn't exist. What did exist were tours by American blues greats, who often enjoyed higher esteem in Europe than in their homeland. The Blues Company musicians backed up many of these bluesmen at their concerts in Germany. Thus they not only got to know the old masters, they garnered the admiration of countless blues freaks. Since then, many a basement musician who's strapped on a guitar or settled down on a drum stool to indulge in the twelve-bar sound can thank the Blues Company for leading the way (far off over the German border, a young, very talented Blues guitarist from Hungary admitted that he was significantly influenced by this band, after hearing one of their concerts).
The Company itself has demonstrated tremendous staying power - and Todor “Toscho” Todorovic, the band's co-founder as well as singer, guitarist, composer and sound freak makes sure of this. The bluesman was born in 1951 in Lingen, in the Emsland region of northern Germany. His parents, who were born in Yugoslavia and who had fled to West Germany after the Second World War, gave their son a variety of opportunities to expand his musical horizons. And what Toscho learned from them and from grand old men of the blues including B.B. King and Muddy Waters would one day become the lifeblood of “his” Blues Company.
Toscho not only plays the blues, he lives and breathes them. Blues without compassion would be unthinkable. Thus for years the band's leader has organised benefit events both large and small in his adopted country. For his commitment to social concerns, the city of Osnabrück awarded him the Public Service Medal in 1993.
Because the blues are performed live, Toscho has worked unceasingly on his image as an entertainer. It is pure delight to watch his facial reactions to a catchy refrain, to see how he electrifies the crowd with a breakneck guitar solo or entrances his listeners with a lush melodic figure, how he wakes emotions with his distinctive, dark voice. And with experienced band members at his side. The current line-up – in effect the core band – includes second guitarist Mike Titre (member of the band since 1980), Arnold Ogrodnik on bass and organ and Florian Schaube on drums.
The band has chalked up an impressive number of performances throughout Europe over the past 25-plus years: 3,000 to date. And even in the US clubs, the band is now viewed as an insider's tip, with the band's market value on the rise.
And not only that: the fact that Germany's most tireless, ever-present and longest-lived blues band is also its most commercially successful is due to the superb quality of its studio recordings. Quite a few of its 20-odd albums are amongst the best-selling German blues recordings ever, including “Damn! Let's Jam” (1991), “Vintage” (1995), the Best Of “Blues, Ballads and Assorted Love Songs” (1997), “Invitation To The Blues” (2000) as well as “From Daybreak To Heartbreak” (2003), in collaboration with Scott Billington, the renowned US producer.
With the CDs they purchase, their fans also honour Blues Company's non-purist approach to their music. The band thrives on change. “Blues is always changing – that's what keeps it alive” is their creed. And in this way they have cultivated an innovative, open-minded, free association with the Blues genre: Whether rock, soul or the New Orleans grove, it goes without saying that these are all part of their musical repertoire, and they love experimenting with fresh sounds. In 1999, Toscho brought in the “Fabulous BC Horns” – Uwe Nolopp on trumpet and tenor sax player and arranger Robert Kretzschmar. And with the “Triple X Horns” (= BC Horns plus four other wind players), a jazzy big band sound enters the picture. At the time of their 30th anniversary they performed together with the NDR Big Band (North German Broadcasting), who, as is well known, have always been open-minded towards new things.
Their 2005 combo coup was also a real surprise. For “The Quiet Side Of Blues Company”, Todorovic and Titre gave their beloved Fender guitars a breather, and so, leaving their electric guitars behind them, the quartet went acoustic. In lovingly “unplugged” arrangements, audiences were presented with oldies from Robert Johnson to Muddy Waters, paired with the odd Blues Company hit.
After this unabashedly relaxed return to the roots, the origins of the blues, in their new album “Hot and Ready to Serve”, Toscho & Co. once again show off the talents for which they are best known and loved: they serve up powerful, modern, guitar-based blues. Just as the cover unmistakably suggests, the music is a "gumbo", a dish directly from New Orleans, very nourishing and sharply flavoured, with every possible ingredient that grows and flourishes in the enormous garden of blues. Driving rhythm and blues from the fifties (“Till The Lights Go Out”) and boogaloo (“My Guitar And Me”) stand side by side with funny music (“Soon Or Later”), profound ballads (“Dark Day”), a scat number by the Boss (“Shake It Don't Break It”) and Toscho's tribute to the great Freddie King with “Hideaway/Peter Gun Theme”.
Such complex, versatile music, such superior lyrics. Once again, Toscho does not limit himself to laments for a lost love or to describing the wonderful feeling that a blues musician gets when up there on the stage in their element. He does do this. But he does more, he sings about street urchins (“Kids”) and homeless people (“Soon Or Later”) in the First World country, Germany, or he reflects on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the upheavals in Eastern Europe which followed this (“The People”). In “Plastic People” (with Mike Titres in his first singing appearance in a Blues Company record) the song again talks of the plastic world of today, in which people are becoming ever more artistic.
Only “Hollywood” remains. In this song Toscho talks of a point at which he feels himself to be at “the pinnacle of his musical career”. In the autumn of 2006, the many time award-winning American film producer and script writer, Ian Gurvitz knocked at the door of the Blues Company and their record company. He wanted to use the song “Blue And Lonesome” from the album “Keepin' The Blues Alive” as the theme song for his film “L.A. Blues”.
It was the first time that Hollywood has ever imported a blues song from Germany. Lately this makes particular sense as the Blues Company is an international player with an internationally successful product.
3.) IBC was found in October 1993, as the ever and the last "string band" oriented band of Turkey; by Sarp Keskiner (vocal, guitar, harmonica, mandolin, washtub bass, banjo, foamboard, shaker) and Salih Nazım Peker (vocal, mandolin, banjo, baglama), both being the band's founding and mentor members. Circa 1997 and just after release of the debut album "Kokler (The Roots) (Ada Muzik); IBC enjoyed the vast repertoire of traditional blues of late 30's to late 50's; by covering many blues standarts but always being keen to blend acoustic rural blues with a slight touch of Turkish baglama music's essential ingredients. Also in 1997, IBC turned out the be the main base for some vitalising folk - blues projects like Tuzlu Nehir (Salty River), Mama & Friends and Mardi Gras; which each of them did perform tracks from masters like Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Blake, Fred McDowell, Mahalia Jackson, Leadbelly, etc...
During the "revival movement of Istanbul Underground" circa 1998 - 1999, the band was a unique and a leading voice in Turkish underground music community by addition of Orcun Basturk (vocals, drums, objects, gongs, bells) from Replikas, besides other bands like Baba Zula, Nekropsi and Replikas; but modelling Alexis Korner's Blues Inc. to host various musicians without any hesitation to launch a "completely free line up" motto; as whomever did practice any kind of blues, gospel, cajun, acustic, electronica, collective improvisation and Anatolian psychedelic rock were very welcome to the line up within Turkish boundries; until their "farewell tour" in May 2000, just after releasing their second album "Sair Zamanlar (Other Times)" in 1999 by Doublemoon Records.
During 1997 - 2000; IBC line ups recruited innumerous musicians, who'd later rule Turkish jazz, latin, punk, blues, post rock or pop rock arenas, nationally or internationally; circa 2000 and 2010.
Some examples are featured on their latest and updated Myspace pages: (circa 1997 - 1998) (circa 1998 - 2000)
Keskiner joined the ever first and the last electric Chicago style blues band in Turkey in 1996; Moe Joe, which was founded by Vefa Karatay (bass) and Feramerz Ayadi (guitar) in 1994; also bringing the names like İlhan Babaoglu (tenor and alto saxophone) and Tugrul Aray (harmonica, flute, tenor saxophone) from IBC's latest line up to Moe Joe's. After countless gigs and tours and festivals; since 1996, Moe Joe still runs the show as a quartet, but without Babaoglu and Aray. In 1999, Keskiner founded Kirika with Salih Peker and Orcun Basturk of IBC: and he was the founder member - producer - composer of Saska (2000 - 2004):
With IBC's debut album in 1997, Kökler, Keskiner has started his carrier as musical director and productor. He has thus far been a compositor, lyrics author, arranger and producer in following albums:
"Sweet Mother Nature's Child" (Chris Chavez, 1999), "Sair Zamanlar" (IBC, 1999) "Chicago Istanbul Mainline" (Moe Joe, 2000) "Sokkur Saska" (Saska, 2004): "Yuri Skies" (Sarp Keskiner, Erdem Helvacioglu, Umut Caglar, Ozun Usta, 2009: "The Great Republic of Southernsides" ([[The Great Republic of Southernsides, 2010) www.sweetpapalowdown.com: Live recordings 2002 - 2010
Vefa Karatay is a current member of Moe Joe: and www.sweetpapalowdown.com
Tugrul Aray is an optional member of www.sweetpapalowdown.com; besides composing music for advertorials.
Orcun Basturk is the current and the founder member of Replikas & Kirika; while being the founder member of ill fated Saska:
Ozun Usta (congas, cabasa, bells) did record live with Moe Joe and IBC circa 2000 and 2002, as being the founder member of Tamburada (2004 - 2006): [9]. Recently; he is hailed as an artist of and he plays with Korhan Futaci & Kara Orkestra:
Discography
Kökler (1997, Ada Müzik)
Sair Zamanlar (1999, Doublemoon, Keskiner)
Line-up
KOKLER (THE ROOTS, 1997)
Sarp Keskiner - Vocal, various guitars, harmonica, mandolin, banjo, electric guitar, washboard, spoons, keys, cans, clay bird flutes, shakers, tambourine, sticks
Salih Nazım Peker - Vocal, mandolin, banjo, acoustic saz, darbouka, acoustic guitar
Erke Erokay - Electric and acoustic guitars
Serkan Ayman - Drums and bells
Burak Guven & Oya Erkaya (Ayman) - Bass
Suna Suner - Vocals
İlhan Babaoglu - Alto saxophone, bass vocals
Erdem Tonguc - Farfisa organ, piano
Murat Ertel - Fx guitars (Blues Un Fidayda)
Feramerz Ayadi - Guitar solos (Sleepdeep Blues)
Ibrahim Yasar - Acoustic rhythm guitar (Pick A Bale Of Cotton)
SAIR ZAMANLAR (OTHER TIMES, 1999)
Sarp Keskiner - Vocal, guitar, electric guitars, tambourine, kaval, harmonica
Salih Nazım Peker - Electric saz, acoustic saz, bouzouki, vocal
Vefa Karatay - Bass
Orçun Baştürk - Drums and bells, piano, conga, timbals
Tuğrul Aray - Harmonica, tenor saxophone, saxoflute, pipes, kaval
Ertan Tekin - Zurna, mey and cura mey (Biskotin, Izmir'e Donus, Kirik Hayatlar)
Cold Rain
Blues Company Lyrics
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Cold Rain
Rollin down my eyes
Ice cold raincoolin' down the tears I cried Met her in the springtimeshe stayed all summer longnow autumn winds are blowin'and I'm askin' what went wrong Cold Rain
Rollin down my eyes
Ice cold raincoolin' down the tears I cried Gave her all my lovin'bought her jewelers tooshe left me sick and tiredand I don't know what to do Cold Rain
Rollin down my eyes
Ice cold raincoolin' down the tears I cried Been told she's headin' southfollowin' the sunhope she finds a placeto hide and make me run Cold Rain
Rollin down my eyes
Ice cold raincoolin' down the tears I cried I gave her all my lovin'Bought her a Rolex, tooshe left me sick and tiredand I don't know what to do Cold Rain
Rollin down my eyes
Ice cold raincoolin' down the tears I cried
Rollin down my eyes
Ice cold raincoolin' down the tears I cried Met her in the springtimeshe stayed all summer longnow autumn winds are blowin'and I'm askin' what went wrong Cold Rain
Rollin down my eyes
Ice cold raincoolin' down the tears I cried Gave her all my lovin'bought her jewelers tooshe left me sick and tiredand I don't know what to do Cold Rain
Rollin down my eyes
Ice cold raincoolin' down the tears I cried Been told she's headin' southfollowin' the sunhope she finds a placeto hide and make me run Cold Rain
Rollin down my eyes
Rollin down my eyes
Ice cold raincoolin' down the tears I cried
In the song "Cold Rain" by the Blues Company, the lyrics describe the emotional aftermath of a failed relationship. The singer laments the loss of his lover, whom he met in the spring and spent the summer with. Now that autumn has arrived, she has left him and he is left to wonder what went wrong. The cold rain falling down his face represents the tears he sheds over the breakup. Despite giving her all his love and buying her jewelry, she still left him feeling sick and tired. He is hurt and confused by her departure, and even though he has heard that she has headed south, following the sun, he still hopes that she will come back to him.
The lyrics of "Cold Rain" are simple, yet powerful in their depiction of heartbreak. The repeated phrase "Cold Rain rollin' down my eyes / Ice cold rain coolin' down the tears I cried" conveys the intense sadness and pain the singer is going through. The juxtaposition of the cold rain with the warmth of spring and summer further emphasizes the loss he feels. The use of the Rolex as a symbol of the material possessions he gave her highlights the contrast between their relationship's superficiality and its eventual failure. Overall, the lyrics capture the raw emotion of heartbreak and the struggle to make sense of what happened.
Line by Line Meaning
Cold rain
The rain that is pouring down is very chilly, and the singer is trying to convey his sadness through the comparison of the rain to his tears.
Rollin down my eyes
The tears that the singer is shedding are streaming down non-stop and he is unable to contain them. His heartache is obvious.
Ice cold rain coolin' down the tears I cried
The freezing rain is making the tears on his face even colder, and he is finding it difficult to cope with the pain of losing his lover.
Met her in the springtime, she stayed all summer long
He met his lover during the beautiful season of spring and she stuck around for the entire summer, but his happiness was temporary.
Now autumn winds are blowin' and I'm askin' what went wrong
The changing leaves of autumn signify the end of summer, and the singer is unable to understand what went wrong in their relationship that made her leave.
Gave her all my lovin', bought her jewelers too
The singer showered his lover with his love and even gifted her expensive jewelry.
She left me sick and tired and I don't know what to do
His lover left him feeling sick and exhausted, and he is lost without her.
Been told she's headin' south, followin' the sun
He has heard that his lover is leaving town and chasing the sun down south.
Hope she finds a place to hide and make me run
The singer wishes his lover to find some solace and move on, where he might eventually have to confront the reality that he has lost her.
I gave her all my lovin', bought her a Rolex, too
The singer gave his lover everything she wanted, including a luxury wristwatch. But in spite of all his efforts, he could not keep her.
She left me sick and tired and I don't know what to do
His lover departed, leaving him at a loss and grappling with his confusion and sadness.
Cold Rain, rollin down my eyes, ice cold rain
The rain continues to pour down ceaselessly, bringing the singer to tears once again.
Writer(s): Winfried Dulisch, Todor Todorovic Copyright: GEMA
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ценителей хорошей музыки я смотрю становится всё больше и больше с каждым днём , и это радостно ,👍
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Sitting on the couch in my living room. It is dark outside and I have lit a few candles to drive out the darkness inside. I poured myself a glass of wine and I hear the rain and wind fighting for dominance in the sky. Sometimes I think the rain wins and sometimes I think the wind is the one who claims victory. Although it is late I see this lonely cyclist paddle against natures force, his head hidden deep in his coat while the rain is pouring down on him and the wind must blow through his cloths. It is cold outside and I hope he will be home soon. When he goes around the corner he is out of sight. I imagine that when he came home, his wife was standing in the hallway with a towel for his wet hair and took his coat. She said, hello my love, come in where it is warm and let me pour you a whisky. What a wonderful way to be welcomed. I hope and wish he got that and that he did not come to a cold and dark empty house, without a fire to warm him, no one waiting for him to take his wet coat or give him a drink, and with nothing but his memories of better times when his wife was still there and had not left him yet for another man.......
wow, where did those thoughts come from? Must be the wine or the darkness outside, or maybe it is the blues that give me strange stories in my head sometimes..... ;)
Thanks again Don, for sharing this great song with us even when it was here already for a long time. ;)
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Adoro Blues, é tocado com a alma
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ANA CIGANA E CÉTICA Carvalho
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Acalma nosso dia com seus mistérios deliciosos!
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