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Bluesitude

by The Juke Hounds

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1.
Back seat drivers Give me lip I ain’t goin’ Take their shit ‘cause it’s my life My way I drive My life My way I drive My life My way I drive People tell me I’m wastin’ time These blues won’t pay me One thin dime But it’s my life My way I drive My life My way I drive My life My way I drive Find a juke joint Tune guitar Play it loud when The drummer starts My life My way I drive My life My way I drive My life My way I drive
2.
Stand Up 03:33
Be strong Yes, I know you can I know that you’re in a jam But you can handle your problems You’re strong you’ll handle your problems And I know how life can make you want to lie down But you’ve got to stand up Stand up Stand up No cash, hardly pay the bills Bad love, such a bitter pill But you can handle your problems You’re strong you’ll handle your problems And there’s nothing that’s new, that someone hasn’t faced before you So you’ve got to stand up Stand up Stand up Your friends are here for you Your friends are here for you Your friends are here for you So just stand up, stand up
3.
You’ve had all you can stand Can’t stand no more So I’ll leave my keys here on the table And I’ll hit the door You’re sure I’m a dog, girl And I just can’t stay Baby, can’t you see You’re throwin’ a good man away You’re sure I must be cheatin’ It just ain’t true I’ve tried to prove my case But I can’t get through You’re sure I’m a dog And I just can’t stay Baby, can’t you see You’re throwin’ a good man away So I’ll go stay with friends And I hope you’ll cool down If you wake up in the morning And you wish I was ‘round Just give me a call And here’s what I’ll say Baby, can’t you see You’re throwin’ a good man away
4.
I believe my best days are somewhere up ahead And though I’d sure like to rest, I must move along instead I have travelled dead ends that got me nowhere slow But the road I’m on now goes where I want to go And where it goes I’ll have a woman’s love And work that make’s me whole Instead of eating at my soul I’ll make a hundred friends We’ll believe each other’s lies And I will never say or hear goodbyes And this song is my prayer in my own private faith That though the shadows are long that is not too late That it is not too late Never too late And this song is my prayer in my own private faith
5.
Fight 04:04
That man’s the boss because he’s from the right school (x2) But the man has less sense than a mule I’ve gotta fight ‘cause the man won’t give (x2) He thinks I’m nothing’, I’m gonna show him how it really is Can’t go around him ‘cause he’s blocking the way (x2) There’s no choice but to smash his blockade Repeat Chorus I bet that you know a man like this, too And I hope that you’ll do like I do I hope that you’ll fight (x3) That man may think you’re nothin’, you gotta show him how it really is You’ve gotta fight ‘cause the man won’t give (x2) That man may think you’re nothin’, you gotta show him how it really is
6.
Like that first big hill on the roller coaster, that’s how I feel when I’m with you (x2) I feel the bottom droppin’ out beneath me, from just a whiff of your perfume Love your long black hair and your slender waist, girl, and I love your super model legs (x2) But you’re keeping all the rest a secret, and I’ve gotta see the rest Don’t let it fade, no, the roller coaster feeling, let’s make it last for all our lives(x2) And girl you’ve got me giving up control, but I swear I love the ride
7.
Let’s take a look at us, must be lessons in our pain (x2) I’m over that we’re over, and this ain’t about the blame I want my next love to be my best love (x2) And the mistakes from then, I won’t make again Yes, I play these blues, and, yes, I’m never home (x2) Imagine my surprise that you can’t stand one night alone I want my next love to be my best love (x2) I’ll tell you where I think we went wrong, and you can help me judge I want my next love to be my best love (x2) I’ve told you where I think we went wrong, and now you be the judge
8.
Superior woman Queen to your pawn Posterior swingin’ Like a can’t touch-it-taunt Superior Boulevard Street she live on Superior woman Always want more Exterior dressed up Like the Saks Fifth store Superior maintenance You can’t afford Superior woman Like luxury mink Interior’s heaven And heaven is pink She don’t know Ray Davies But she sure loves the kink
9.
I believe it’s a choice And here’s what I choose I choose to be young I choose to be young If I live to be a hundred and three My fun won’t be done My music is loud I wear t-shirts and jeans I choose to be young I choose to be young If I live to be a hundred and three My fun won’t be done Don’t sit in your chair Let down your hair And choose to be young Yes, choose to be young If you live to be a hundred and three Your fun won’t be done
10.
Well, I know when I’m gone You get to feeling so alone You say “hey” to the backdoor man It takes a wink and then a nod Maybe a drink, a little prod You think it’s nothin’ just a one night stand But it’s not nothin’, it’s somethin’ Something bustin’ me like flood waters through a dam You ain’t even been discrete So I could just choose not to know You paint the town with my so-called friends I hear the jokes behind my back I feel provoked, how ‘bout some tact You think it’s nothin’ to be with them But it’s not nothin’, it’s somethin’ Somethin’ bustin’ me like flood waters through a dam I know that you have needs I do my best to always fill them It’s like a slap that I’m not enough I will not share you with the boys No, I declare I’ve made a choice That there is nothin’, nothin’ left of us But all this nothin’, sure feels like somethin’ Somethin’ bustin’ me like flood waters through a dam

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2nd album from Akron, Ohio based band, The Juke Hounds, featuring 10 original tracks of defiant, blues and blues rock. Rhys Williams of "Blues Blast" magazine writes, " The attitude in both the lyrics and the aggressive attack of the musicians reflects the grit and power that is found throughout Bluesitude," and " it packs a powerful punch."

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released January 1, 2014

Bob Gardner-vocals, guitar
Gerard Dominick -bass
Mark Smallwood-drums
Jimmy Kormanik-harmonica
Doug Barber-keyboards

Produced by Freddy Demarco and the Juke Hounds
Bobby Stocker played drums on "Choose To Be Young"
Don Kaser-Horn charts and trombone
Norm Tischler-sax
Michael Rubin-trumpet

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The Juke Hounds Akron, Ohio

The Juke Hounds share an attitude-- a Midwestern grit that makes them relate to the blues and to each other.

The music, the lyrics and even the bands’ aggressive stage presence, announce they are a force to be reckoned with.

Brittany Nader of Buzzbin Magazine agrees that when the Juke Hounds start to play,
“it’s impossible not to get up and start shaking along to the rhythm of each tune
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