I'LL PLAY THE BLUES FOR YOU

Created on 09/02/2006
Latest update on 11/02/2023

Artist: Geater Davis
Author: Jerry Beach
Label: demo/WestSide
Year: 1970

In the Sound City studio in Shreveport, LA. Allen Orange of Sound Stage 7 heard it and he contracted him for his own new House Of Orange label (see: Sweet Woman's Love). Shelved until Geater's Sadder Shades Of Blue cd in '98. Author Jerry Beach played guitar with Reuben Bell's Beltones, who also cut some sides for House Of Orange.

Covers:

1972:

Albert King [first released version on Stax album by that name; also live at Wattstax that year]

1979:

Geater Davis [recorded in Jackson with Johnny Vincent; featuring an anti-disco spoken intro]

1984:

Melvin Taylor

1993:

Bryan Lee

1996:

Wesley Jefferson

1997:

Chris Thomas King

1998:

Aron Burton

2006:

Gary Moore

2006:

Hideaway

2016:

Joe Bonamassa

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