Sam Myers - I Got The Blues

Album: Coming From The Old School | Buy: https://amzn.to/3vkXxWw Lyrics: I've got to leave here, I've got to find someplace to go I've got to leave here, I've got to find someplace to go because the way things are happening here now I don't feel welcome here no more. Going to get up in the morning, pack up my clothes and shoes You might think I'm joking when I tell you I'm going to Newport News I got the Blues, ohh let me tell you I have the Blues I'm a guy you can't excuse, ohh let me tell you I have the Blues Begin tasty guitar solo 🎸 followed by awesome Hammond Organ solo🎹🎹😎 I tell all you working men go home a little before time Then you catch your woman getting down wrong Like I caught mine That's what gave me the Blues Ohh let me tell you I have the Blues I'm a guy you can't excuse, ohh let me tell you I got the BLUE OH OH OHHH BLUES First Photo: John Dee Holeman by Jimmy Williams: https://www.jimmywilliamsphotography.com Myers was born in Laurel, Mississippi. He acquired juvenile cataracts at age seven and was left legally blind for the rest of his life, despite corrective surgery.] He could make out shapes and shadows, but could not read print at all; he was taught Braille. He acquired an interest in music while a schoolboy in Jackson, Mississippi, and became skilled enough at playing the trumpet and drums that he received a nondegree scholarship from the American Conservatory of Music (formerly the American Conservatory School of Music) in Chicago. Myers attended school by day and at night frequented the nightclubs of the South Side. There he met and was sitting in with Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Little Walter, Hound Dog Taylor, Robert Lockwood, Jr., and Elmore James. Myers played drums with Elmore James on a fairly steady basis from 1952 until James's death, in 1963, and is credited on many of James's historic recordings for Chess Records. In 1956, Myers wrote and recorded what was to be his most famous single, "Sleeping in the Ground", a song that has been covered by B