I Got Them Ol' Kozmic Blues Again, Mama es un álbum de Janis Joplin, publicado en 1969. El disco incluye 11 canciones, entre ellas «Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)», «Maybe», «One Good Man» y «As Good As You've Been To This World».
Sobre el álbum
El primer álbum en solitario de la artista tras su salida de Big Brother and the Holding Company, I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, de 1969, es una obra de transición valiente y a menudo subestimada. En este trabajo, Janis Joplin se aleja del rock psicodélico para abrazar un sonido de soul y R&B con una potente sección de vientos, buscando demostrar su profundidad y versatilidad como artista.
De esta manera, el sonido del disco es muy diferente al de "Cheap Thrills". Acompañada por su nueva banda, la Kozmic Blues Band, Joplin se sumerge en el sonido del soul de sellos como Stax, con arreglos de metal que le dan a las canciones un aire más sofisticado y potente. El álbum fue recibido con cierta perplejidad por algunos fans de su anterior etapa.
Además, el disco contiene interpretaciones vocales absolutamente espectaculares. En temas como "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)" o "Maybe", Janis Joplin demuestra que era una de las mejores cantantes de blues y soul de su tiempo, con una capacidad para transmitir dolor y pasión que sigue siendo inigualable. Es un tour de force vocal.
"Kozmic Blues" es un álbum de una gran calidad y un paso fundamental en la evolución artística de Joplin. Es el sonido de una artista que busca su propia voz más allá de la banda que la vio nacer, un trabajo que, con el tiempo, ha sido reivindicado como una de sus obras más importantes y conmovedoras.
Listado de Canciones
- Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
- Maybe
Letra
Alright, alright! This is an old rock & roll tune, it was done by the chantells in the 50s, a song called maybe Maybe Oh if I could pray and I try, dear, You might come back home, home to me. Honey, maybe Whoa, if I could ever hold your hand Ooh you just might understand. Honey maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah. Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe dear I guess I might have done something wrong, Honey I'd be glad to admit it. Oh, come back home to me! Honey maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe yeah. Well I know that it just doesn't ever seem to matter, babe, Oh honey, when I go out or what I'm trying to do, 'cause I'm still left here Holding on in needing you. Please, please, please, please, Oh won't you reconsider babe. Come on, I said come back, Won't you come back to me! Maybe dear, oh maybe, maybe, maybe dear, Let me help you show me how. Honey, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, Maybe, maybe, maybe, Maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah. Ooh! - One Good Man
Letra
Honey, I love to go to parties And I like to have a good time, But if it gets too pale after a while Honey and I start looking to find One good man. Hmm, don't you know I've been searching, Oh yes I have! One good man, Oh ain't much, honey ain't much, It's only everything, whoa. An' I don't want much outa life, I never wanted a mansion in the south. I just-a want to find someone sincere Who'd treat me like he talks, One good man. Oh honey don't you know that I've been looking. Oh, one good man Ain't much, honey it ain't much, Oh, it's only everything. All right. Some girls they want to collect their men, They wear 'em like notches on a gun. Oh honey, but I know better than that, I know that a woman only needs one. One good man, oh, Oh baby don't you know I've been looking, hmm. One good man, It ain't much, no, no honey it ain't much, Oh, it's only every little thing, Just-a everything, everything Ah yeah. - As Good As You've Been To This World
- To Love Somebody
Letra
There's a light, certain kinda light, Never ever, never shone on me, no, no. Honey, I want, I want my whole life To be lived with you, babe, That's what I want oh, was to be Living and loving you. There's a way, oh everybody say You can do anything, every thing yeah. But what good, what good, Honey, what good could it ever bring 'Cause I ain't got you with my love And I can't find you babe, no I can't. You don't know, you don't know what it's like, No you don't, honey no you don't know, You don't know what it's like To love anybody. Oh honey, I wanna talk about love And trying to hold somebody The way I love you babe, And I've been loving you babe. In my brain, oh I can see your face again, I know my frame of mind, yeah. But nobody, nobody has to ever be so blind, Honey, like I did, I know I was blind, Honey, I tell you that I was, I was very, very blind. Oh but I'm just a girl, Can't you just take a look at me and tell, Tell that I live, honey I live and I breathe for you, Don't you know I do! But what good, what good, Honey, what good could ever do 'Cause I ain't got you, that's all I've ever wanted, And I ain't got you, babe, oh but I've been looking 'round. But you don't know, you don't know what it's like, No you don't, no, no, no, you don't know, Honey, you don't know what it's like Oh to love anybody. Oh honey I wanna talk abouttrying to hold somebody when you're lonely The way I loved you, baby, And I just want you to know I tried. Oh I know that there's a way 'Cause everybody came to me one time and said, "Honey, you can do anything, Every little thing,#148; and I think I can. Oh, but what good, what good, Honey, what awfully good can it ever, ever bring, 'Cause I can't find you with my love, And I can't find you babe, oh anywhere. Oh, but you don't know, You don't know what it's like, No you don't and you never ever, ever did. You don't know, honey, You don't know what it's like Oh to love anybody. Oh honey I wanna talk about trying to hold you. Oh baby, baby, baby, yeah, But you don't know, You don't know what it's like, And you never ever, ever did, I said I tried to throw my love around you And I tried to help you darling. But you never ever, no you never ever, No you never ever, no you never ever, I know that you know that No you never ever, ever, ever, Oh let me throw my love, Throw my love all around you, yeah. - Kozmic Blues
Letra
Time keeps moving on, Friends they turn away, Lordy Lord. Well, I keep moving on But I never found out why I keep pushing so hard a dream, I keep trying to make it right Through another lonely day. Whoa - don't discover it lasts... Honey, time keeps a-moving on, hey yeah, yeah yeah. Well, I'm twenty-five years older now So I know it can't be right And I'm no better baby and I can't help you no more Than I did when I was just a girl. Yeah! But it don't make no difference baby, no, no, 'Cause I know that I could always try. There's a fire inside of everyone of us, huh-uh, I'm gonna need it now, I'm gonna hold it yeah, I'm gonna use it till the day I die. Don't, honey, don't you expect any answers, dear, Ah, I know they don't come with ease, no, no, no, no. Hey, I ain't never gonna love you any better baby 'Cause I'm never gonna love you right So you better take it now, I said right yes now, yeah. But it don't make no difference baby, no, no, 'Cause I know that I could always try. There's a fire inside of everyone of us, huh-uh, I'm gonna need it now, I'm gonna use it yeah, I'm gonna hold it till the day I die. Don't make no difference babe, no, no, no, Honey, I hate to be the one. I said you're gonna live your life And you're gonna love, love, love your life. I'm gonna need it now, I'm gonna hold it yeah, I'm gonna use it, say, whoa... Don't make no difference, baby, no, no, no, Honey, I hate, I hate to be the one. I said every time you're gonna wanna love somebody, Every time you're gonna wanna need somebody, You're gonna wanna turn around, I'm gonna be there. No no no no no, no no no no no, no no no no. When you're gonna put out your hand, All your want is some kind of lovin' man, He ain't gonna be there, I said, not here. No no no no, no no no no, no no no no, No no no, no no no, no no no no, No no no no, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa, wah wah, whoa, Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Honey when I wanna reach out my hand I said darling all I ever wanted Was for you to understand me now - whoa Ah baby, I wanna sing about me Lord, honey, every day yeah! This is a song that demands audience participation. All you have to do is clap your hands, man. I know you can cope with it no matter how stoned you are, man. We are all gonna cope with it and we're all pretty stoned, too, man. Like that! I can't hardly hear you, man! - Yeah! - Little Girl Blue
Letra
Sit there, hmm, count your fingers. What else, what else is there to do? Oh and I know how you feel, I know you feel that you're through. Oh wah wah ah sit there, hmm, count, Ah, count your little fingers, My unhappy oh little girl, little girl blue, yeah. Oh sit there, oh count those raindrops Oh, feel 'em falling down, oh honey all around you. Honey don't you know it's time, I feel it's time, Somebody told you 'cause you got to know That all you ever gonna have to count on Or gonna wanna lean on It's gonna feel just like those raindrops do When they're falling down, honey, all around you. Oh, I know you're unhappy. Oh sit there, ah go on, go on And count your fingers. I don't know what else, what else Honey have you got to do. And I know how you feel, And I know you ain't got no reason to go on And I know you feel that you must be through. Oh honey, go on and sit right back down, I want you to count, oh count your fingers, Ah my unhappy, my unlucky And my little, oh, girl blue. I know you're unhappy, Ooh ah, honey I know, Baby I know just how you feel. - Work Me Lord
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