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Josh Deeter - I Could've Learned The Blues

from The Bushwick Book Club presents Keith Richards' "Life" by The Bushwick Book Club

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Josh Deeter wrote and performed this song for the September 2011 Bushwick Book Club performance inspired by Keith Richards' "Life." For more Josh Deeter, please visit www.facebook.com/littlemtn?sk=info.

Josh's intro to his song:

So a friend of mine read this book before I did. He said, Keith Richards did a lot of drugs, but he did them very specifically. He did them to live, you know, a more productive life, and I took that as a cue to start drinking coffee. I kind of made it through most of my adulthood 'till now without drinking coffee, and so now I do. Thank you, Keith Richards. I was going to write the song about that, but after getting into the book. I was like, oh wait, there's another song...

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I could've learned the blues
I could've practiced all the days of my youth
I could've listened to Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson, too
I could've learned the blues

Punk rock records were all the rage
way way back in my high school days
rebellious music we shunned the old ways
and I didn't pay attention to the blues

I could've learned the blues
I could've practiced all the days of my youth
I could've listened to Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson, too
I could've learned the blues

The old guy at the open mic
he's the kind that likes to play the blues
and the jam bands with their restless hands
pump out jam after jam after jam of the same
souless white boy blues

I'm older now and I've got the blues
I work for a living and I've got a freight train load of issues
my baby don't love me I ain't got no booze
yes I'm starting to learn the blues

I'm starting to learn the blues
I don't need no practice you heard the news
I'm drinking muddy water and sleepin in a hollow log, too
I'm starting to learn the blues

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from The Bushwick Book Club presents Keith Richards' "Life", released September 15, 2011
Recorded live at Goodbye Blue Monday.

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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