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Blues Vintage:
Ease My Worried Mind


I can't find any session information on this one.
If anybody can help out (particularly the piano player)?


Piano in F





INTRO

So many mornings, so worried and so blue
Ain’t got nobody, to talk my troubles to
I need a lover, need a real sweet lover, to ease, my worried mind

What good is money, if your money won’t spend
Life ain’t worth livin’, without a sweet lovin’ friend
I need a lover, need a real sweet lover, to ease, my worried mind

I lay down laughin’, wake up screamin’ and cryin’
With the one I love, always on my mind
I need a lover, need a real sweet lover, to ease, my worried mind

Spoken: Talk to me a little while boy, Lord have mercy, I do

SOLO

Blue skies need sunshine, gold diggers dig for gold
Ain’t got no heaven, my story ain’t been told
I need a lover, a real sweet lover, to ease, my worried mind

When I lay down, I feel so sad and blue
Sometimes I don’t know, even what to do
I need a woman, need a real sweet lover, to ease, my worried mind

dj:
Ease My Worried Mind is, per the Fancourt/McGrath post-war discography, probably from a 1952 session in New York City.  The backing band would have been Bob Gaddy on Piano, Bob Harris on bass, and George Wood on drums.

Blues Vintage:
Thanks dj,   Bob Gaddy a new name to me (bass and drums too, probably all New York cats).

Blues Vintage:
Trouble In Mind


Brownie McGhee – vocals, guitar
Sonny Terry – Harmonica

Los Angeles, California
Ca. 1960/1961

Though billed as “live” at the Ash Grove, this is a studio recording with audience effect added.

E position
Standard tuning

Please correct me if I’m wrong about the guitar position/tuning.





INTRO

Trouble in mind, I'm blue
But I won't be blue alway
Sun's gonna shine, in my backdoor some day

I'm gonna lay, my head
On some cold old railroad iron
Let that 2.19 train, passify my mind

Trouble in mind, I'm blue
Won't be blue alway
Sun's gonna shine in, my backdoor some day

Trouble in mind, trouble in mind, I'm blue
I've almost lost my mind
Sometimes I feel like livin', and again I feel, feel like dyin'

Trouble in mind, I'm blue
My poor heart is beatin’ slow
I ain't never had so much trouble, in my doggone life before (Spoken: Go ahead)

HARMONICA SOLO

I'm goin' down, to the river
Gonna take me a rockin' chair (Spoken: What you gotta do, man)
If this trouble don't leave me, gonna rock on away from there

My good girl, she’s done quit me
Sure does grieve my mind
Sometimes I feel like livin', yeah, and again I feel, feel like cryin'

HARMONICA/GUITAR OUTRO SOLO

Johnm:
Hi Blues Vintage,
Thanks for posting that version. I'm hearing a couple of differences:
   1.2 But I won't be blue ALWAY
   2.2 On some cold OLD railroad iron
   3.2 Won't be blue ALWAY
   6.3 If THIS trouble don't leave me, gonna rock on away from THERE

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