Songs About Frustration, Disappointment, and the Blues

[Bigboote]

Some more blues/frustration from Steppenwolf:

 

[64Zcode]

 

[Littlemin]

A shoutout to Zorro for posting John Prine, one of THE great songwriters. This song has one amazing back story, the seed planted that eventually became this classic is Lennon’s Across the Universe.
Prine was trying to recreate Lennon’s voice reverb from the song and used the phrase Hello In There as he tried to recreate the sound. He had an affection for older people as he had delivered newspapers as a boy and one of his stops was room by room to an old persons home, some of whom he got close to. The phrase eventually grew into an absolute poignant gem of a song about growing old and growing lonely.

 

[Dove]

I thought a lyric video would be appropriate.

Jean Beauvoir on the axe!!!

 

[Scud49]

 

[JavaMan]

 

[64Zcode]

I guess my take on this thread is to turn frustration to action. (again, Ms Ducharme comes to mind....)

 

[JavaMan]

 

[LwrcasefaN]

 

[JavaMan]

 

[JavaMan]

 

[Monte]

 

[JavaMan]

 

[OviedoFLHusky]

 

[64Zcode]

 

[Bigboote]

The frustrations of farming:

 

[Scud49]

Eric Clapton - "Life is what you make it, and if I can't make it through tomorrow, I better make it through today"....

 

[RoadMaster]

 

[Jackcatscal]

I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright

 

[meyers7]

Sheryl Crow "Every Thing Is Broken"

Not bad, but I think Kenny Wayne Shepherd did it better.

 

[meyers7]

"Brighter days, where did they go?"

Brighter Days - JJ Grey and MoFro

 

[meyers7]

Some people may think this is a happy song. Yea, not so much....at least done this way.

You Are My Sunshine - The Dead South

 

[Hoops66]

One of the big ones?

 

[Hoops66]

And maybe...

 

[Hoops66]

I love this Irving Berlin song and this piece from Boardwalk Empire... And maybe on target...