San Francisco Dues es un álbum de Chuck Berry, publicado en 1971 por Chess. El disco incluye 10 canciones, entre ellas «Oh Louisiana», «Let's Do Our Thing Together», «Your Lick» y «Festival».
Sobre el álbum
El álbum San Francisco Dues, de 1971, continúa la exitosa línea de su regreso a Chess Records. En este trabajo, Chuck Berry sigue explorando el rock and roll y el blues con un sonido crudo y directo. Como el título sugiere, el álbum también incorpora un cierto aire de la costa oeste y de la escena de San Francisco. Encontramos algunas canciones con un toque más relajado y con influencias del country-rock.
El disco es una colección variada que muestra las diferentes facetas de su talento. Temas como "Let's Do Our Thing Together" son un blues de ritmo lento y atmósfera íntima. La canción "My Dream" es un rock and roll enérgico en la más pura tradición de Chuck Berry.
Las letras siguen demostrando su ingenio y su capacidad para contar historias. 'San Francisco Dues' es un álbum sólido y disfrutable, que, aunque no alcanzó el éxito de otros trabajos, mantiene un alto nivel de calidad. Es una prueba más de la vitalidad que Chuck Berry experimentó a principios de los 70.
Listado de Canciones
- Oh Louisiana4:28
Letra
Oh, Louisiana, I stayed away from you too long Oh, Louisiana, how can a true love go so wrong ? She put me in shame and in sorrow and I come home tomorrow Oh, Louisiana Oh, Louisiana, yea, yea, Creole baby, Cajun queens Quaint porches and windows, filet de gumbo, the Basin beans Your beautiful Delta and bayous in greens Oh, Louisiana Oh, Louisiana, yea-e-e, yea, I'm flyin' on Delta Nine-o-three Right over St. Louis, high over Memphis, Tennessee On southward to the sea, where I long to be Oh, Louisiana Oh, o, Louisiana, yea, yea, them Yankee nights are cold and long Oh, Louisiana, she broke my heart and wrecked my home She shamed me in sorrow, to face my tomorrow Oh, take me back, oh, Louisiana - Let's Do Our Thing Together2:20
- Your Lick2:34
- Festival4:08
Letra
Havin' a nationwide festival for fourteen days and nights Ah, there's fifty four bands on a river boat spot in the lights Hundred of bands and tents all on the banks of the Ohio Bandstands floatin' from Paducah to Cairo Be over a million freaks there diggin' the sights There's so many beautiful people there to love and cheer Some of the greatest guitar playin' in the western hemisphere Got the Who, the Band from across the north border Canned Heat The Fifth Dimension, Creedence Clearwater Oh, brother Hendrix, sister Joplin, we wish you were here Early in the mornin' Johnny Cash and old Elvis got loose The Who, Vanilla Fudge and the Woolies start paying their dues All evening Ike Turner and Aretha right on the Drifters And the Coasters and the Loading Zone All night Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters in a battlin' mood Oh, what a beautiful show, was sitting right up under the microphone Diggin' the Grateful Dead, Little Richard and the Rolling Stones Ray Charles, Led Zeppelin and the Everly Brothers Bad Bo Diddley and the Beatles and some others Everybody's laying back and freaking out all week long - Bound to Lose3:06
Letra
Looks like I'll go on through my life bound in sorrow I'm a loser right from the start Now I've lost the only one I really loved And I'm bound to this pain in my heart I am bound because I am so much in love with you And I know that this love's all in vain When you let anyone have the love you say is mine It proves to me I'm a loser again I am bound with so many sweet memories of you What more can a poor loser do ? I can't change your ways, I can't make you love me more I am bound to this crave I have for you I was bound to lose you when I first fell in love with you I thought I'd try and love again Oh, I lost, but kept my chin up and I would pull through every time But losing you has laid my head in my hands - Bordeaux in My Pirough2:35
Letra
So long, Jean, got a little show, thanks for the Bordeaux I got to go, push my pirough way down the bayou They got a band up on the stand and a beautiful light show Au revoir, Jean, dig the show from up on the plateau In my pirough, with my Bordeaux, out on the bayou Creeping along, singing a song, see'est, see'est bon, bon Playing the music on my acoustic Spanish guitaro Having a duet with my coquette out on the bayou It's growing night, we've got no lights out on the bayou Beautiful trip, think we'll sip some of my Bordeaux Two more miles going wild to play my acoustic See them stand to clap their hands to hear my music One more mile, we rested awhile and sipped on some Bordeaux While we's grooving, a fog was moving in on the bayou On my knee, just couldn't see the front of my pirough We didn't mind, we just reclined and sipped some more Bordeaux Ay-ay, Jean, I missed the show up on the plateau Si vous plait, push my pirough back up the bayou No see the band, no see the stand, no see the light show Ahh, Jean, we had a show out on the bayou - San Francisco Dues3:23
- Viva Rock & Roll2:02
- My Dream (Poem)6:00
- Lonely School Days2:36
Letra
I saw you when you came in this morning All chummy with somebody new And I was all alone this morning In sorrrow still loving you I know it shows, I'm broken hearted This feelin' just won't go away I've been so lonesome since we parted And I'll be blue again in school today Lonely school days do I have when you Come to school with someone new In my deepest sorrow over losing you Lonely school days keep me blue I saw you eating in the lunch room Right where we used to sit and dine With someone snugged up close beside you Enjoying pleasures that were mine You talk to them along the hallways You walk with them to classes too You leave and go with them of evenings And I go home alone and blue