Strange Fruit by Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa

[Kush]

Strange Fruit (Joe Bonamassa and Beth Hart)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qf_aytrlpQ

[Kush]

more Beth Hart


Baddest Blues - awesome solo version !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzFd0e5WanU

I'd rather go Blind w/ Jeff Beck (Buddy Guy tribute - Kennedy Center Honors)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV8wSZXlD3U

I'd rather go Blind (epic extended version with Joe Bonamassa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgBff_8pJoQ

[Kush]

Setting me Free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CingEwu6vA8

Lifts You Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC7XlRWXVXM


Baloise Sessions -
1. For my Friend 2. I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know 3. Skin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oes9DPsEtpU


Setting me Free

Hello, hello
are you in there, child?
Leave that party dress
and your suicidal smile
Hello, hello
I've come to see it done
the stripes across your face
and the battles that he's won

Don't tell me to hide
I've run from living all my life

I'm setting me free
blood, sweat, and tears
I've been so desperate all these years
now I'm taking my bones,
and leaving your ring
this house made of glass
is shattering
I'm setting me free

Hello, hello
I hear the sirens roar
coming round the bend
like a thousand times before
Hello, hello
don't you give up the fight
like a beat-down dog
who's forgotten how to bite

Don't tell me it's wrong
I've only come to be your friend

I'm setting me free
blood, sweat, and tears
I've been so desperate all these years
Don't tell me I'm blind
it's you who won't see
the woman I am
the fighter in me
I'm setting me free

I'm laughing, I'm crying
I'm living, I'm dying
I'm changing the power in me
I'm setting me free!

Like fire and water
I'm mother, I'm daughter
I'm changing the power in me

I'm setting me free
blood, sweat, and tears
I've been so desperate all these years
I'm taking my balls,
and leaving your ring
your house made of glass
is shattering
I'm setting me free

Hello, hello...?


Skin

She combs her hair and cleans her face
Closes the door and kneels to pray
It don’t matter that she’s alone
Beast or dragons she’s going home

If I lay me down
Bow my head unto the ground
Would you heal my skin
And these blisters within my skin

She found today so hard to say
I sweat the sheets too tired to play
And it don’t matter ‘cause I’m still alive
Beast or dragons won’t make me hide

If I lay me down
Bow my head unto the ground
Would you heal my skin
And these blisters within my skin

Another way
I just cant find the words to say
Cold where I lay
It’s cold where I lay
Bones cracked to clay
A killer’s in the way
Hot is my shame
Fire pulls my veins

For never is my name
Forever in my shame
Holy come heal me
Solely delivery delivery

If I lay me down
Bow my head unto the ground
Would you heal my skin
And these blisters within

If I lay me down
Bow my head unto the ground
Would you heal my skin
And these blisters within

Blisters within my skin

[sebmelmoth2003]

bbc radio 4 - soul music profiles strange fruit :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03jb1w1

[Kush]

I'll Take Care of You by JB & BH. The last two minutes of JB is phenomenal !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLR_bSzPTiY


They are coming out with a third studio album together next year.

[Kush]

Beth Hart...


At the Bottom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sK-1S633w0

Soulshine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jQj7nzUAXQ

...live RTL (France)

Ugliest House on the Block
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4srcIIzqqaA



Swing My Thing Back Around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArwtRnls8bk

Lifetime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U7b0HJyI6M

[Kush]

Slow, intense live performances by BH. She is from LA but until Joe Bonamassa and Buddy Guy promoted her on a national scale not too long ago American audiences hardly knew her....

Jacky's Song (Dutch TV 1999)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZJJQGzG3NY

Mama (RTL France 2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0GhULj2xJw

Sister Heroine (RTL France 2012)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcSHOJvzBJ8

Caught Out in the Rain (Baloise, Switzerland, 2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta9f3YlQ6Zk

Hiding Under Water (Paradiso, Netherlands)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwhDEZANzrA

..and the punk rocker

Immortal (Paradiso)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbwggC8tdhU

[Kush]

LA Song (Live Paradiso)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3IFV1ywUoI


She hangs around the boulevard
She’s a local girl with local scars
She got home late she got home late
She drank so hard the bottle ached
And she tried and she tried and she tried and she tried
But nothing’s clear in a bar full of flies
So she takes and she takes she takes and she takes
She understands when she gives it away

She says man I gotta get outta this town
Man I gotta get outta this pain
Man I gotta get outta this town
Outta this town and out of L.A.

She’s got a gun she’s got a gun
She got a gun she calls the lucky one
She left a note right by the phone
Don’t leave a message ’cause this ain’t no home
And she cried and she cried and she cried and she cried
She cried so long her tears ran dry
Then she laughed and she laughed she laughed and she laughed
‘Cause she knew she was never coming back

She said man I’m gonna get outta this town
Man I’m gonna get outta this pain
Man I’m gonna get outta this town
Outta this town and out of L.A.

It’s all she loves
It’s all she hates
It’s all too much for her to take
She can’t be sure just where it ends
Or where the good life begins

So she took a train she took a train
To a little old town without a name
She met a man he took her in
But fed her all the same bullshit again
‘Cause he lied and he lied and he lied and he lied

He lied like a salesman selling flies
So she screamed and she screamed and she screamed and she screamed
It’s a different place but the same old thing

It’s all I love
It’s all I hate
It’s all too much for me to take
I can’t be sure where it begins
Or if the good life lies within

So she said
Man I gotta get out of this town
Yeah now I gotta get back on that train
Man I gotta get out of this town
I’m outta my pain
So I’m going back to L.A.