Yer Blues.

“Feel so lonely. Wanna Die.”

For a classic Beatles song, from the White Album, the lyrics sound so…. emo.
I suppose it just represents the link between the different music styles. Rock, and Emo, both supposedly trace their roots back to the Blues.

But still, I’ll take the blues any day. Music with true feeling and expression as opposed to boy bands with instruments and ridiculous hair wailing into microphones, I mean come on.

Even this song, written by John Lennon apparently as a mockery of the blues - much in the same way we would mock emo by writing lyrics such as “You don’t like me. Gonna cut myself.” - is vastly surperior to a lot of that angst ridden stuff that comes out these days.

Of course, the beatles studio performance lacks the edge the blues needs. I mean lets face it, Harrison wasn’t really a blues guitarist.

So how do we give the song the oomph it needs?

Easy.

Bring Clapton in. Makes it a Blues masterpiece.

August 28, 2007 | Filed Under Guitar 

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