Sam Myers | I Got The Blues

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#Blues / #BluesRock / #RelaxingBlues /#slowblues

Album: Coming From The Old School
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Lyrics:

I've got to leave, yeah
I've got to find someplace to go

I've got to leave, yeah
I've got to find someplace to go

Because the way things are happening here now
I don't feel welcome you 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 New

I got the blues
Oh, let me tell you I have the blues
I'm a guy you can't rescue
Oh, let me tell you I have the blues

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

Oh, let me tell you I have the blues
I'm a guy you can't rescue
Oh, let me tell you I got the blues

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Samuel Joseph Myers (February 19, 1936 – July 17, 2006) was an American #blues musician and songwriter. He was an accompanist on dozens of recordings by #blues artists over five decades. He began his career as a drummer for Elmore James but was most famous as a #blues vocalist and #blues harp player. For nearly two decades he was the featured vocalist for Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets.

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 Blind Faith, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, and many other #blues artists; it was also featured on Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour show on "Sleep".

From the early 1960s until 1986, Myers worked clubs in and around Jackson and across the South in the (formerly) racially segregated string of venues known as the Chitlin' Circuit. He also toured the world with Sylvia Embry and the Mississippi All-Stars #Blues Band.

In 1986, Myers met Anson Funderburgh, from Plano, Texas, and joined his band, the Rockets. Myers toured all over the US and the world with the Rockets, enjoying a partnership that endured until the time of his death, from complications due to surgery for throat cancer, on July 17, 2006, in Dallas, Texas. Just before Myers died, he toured as a solo artist in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, with the Swedish band Bloosblasters.