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Brickyard Blues

from By Request by A.J. Croce

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about

All my friends know how I feel about AT. He was an inspiration, my producer and my friend. This was Marlo’s request on many late nights. The lyrics explain everything. I don’t feel I do it justice, though I really wanted these recordings to feel like a late night party at my place. The performances needed to be fun and real not perfect (whatever that is).

lyrics

Well, I tried to run my game
She said "Man, that's the same old thing I've heard before"
And I'm too tired to go to your show, again and again

And she started to explain
She said "Man, I ain't saying what you're playing just can't make it
But I just can't take it anymore"

Play something sweet, now make it mellow
Play something I can sink my teeth in like Jello
Play something I can understand, yeah
Play me some Brickyard Blues

Play something sweet, now make it funky
Let me lay back and grin like a monkey
Play something I can understand, yeah
Play me some Brickyard Blues

Well, I started to sweat
She said "Don't get upset 'cause you just might break a string
And that won't do a thing for your show”

Well so, I said to myself
I said "Self, do you see what is sailing through my soul?"
Gotta have some more, don't ya know

Play something sweet, now make it mellow
Play something I can sink my teeth in like Jello
Play something I can understand, yeah
Play me some Brickyard Blues

Play something sweet, now make it funky
Well, let me lay back and grin like a monkey
Play something I can understand, yeah
Play me some Brickyard Blues

It's enough to make a light in the dark
It's enough to make a bite just a bark
It's enough to make a body move around
It's enough to make a rabbit hug a hound

Play something sweet, now make it mellow
Play something I can sink my teeth in like Jello
Play something I can understand
Play me some Brickyard Blues

Play something sweet, now make it funky
Well, let me lay back and grin like a monkey
Play something I can understand, yeah
Play me some Brickyard Blues

credits

from By Request, released February 5, 2021
A.J. Croce - Piano, Vocals
David Barard- Bass
Gary Mallaber- Drums, Percussion
Garrett Stoner - Electric Guitar

(Allen Toussaint) Screen Gems-EMI Music, Inc. (BMI)/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI)

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A.J. Croce Nashville, Tennessee

A.J. Croce has established his reputation as a piano player and serious vocal stylist who pulls from a host of musical traditions and anti-heroes — part New Orleans, part juke joint, part soul. His new album was born of memories of favorite artists and shows, but mostly, of late-night gatherings with groups of friends, many of them fellow musicians, with Croce at the piano taking requests. ... more

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