Better Days
Encyclopedia
Better Days is an album
by American
blues artist Susan Tedeschi
, originally released in 1995, but later re-released in 1998 after she found national success with Just Won't Burn
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Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
blues artist Susan Tedeschi
Susan Tedeschi
Susan Tedeschi is an American blues and soul musician, who has received multiple Grammy Award nominations, and is well-known for her singing voice, guitar playing, stage presence, and marriage to blues guitarist Derek Trucks...
, originally released in 1995, but later re-released in 1998 after she found national success with Just Won't Burn
Just Won't Burn
Just Won't Burn is the national debut album by American blues artist Susan Tedeschi, released in 1998 .-Track listing:#"Rock Me Right" – 4:27#"You Need to Be With Me" – 3:04...
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Track listing
- "It's up to You" (Lamond, Tedeschi) – 4:19
- "Gonna Write Him a Letter" (Tedeschi) – 3:05
- "Love Never Treats Me Right" (Tedeschi) – 2:11
- "It Hurts Me TooIt Hurts Me Too"It Hurts Me Too" is a blues standard that is "one of the most interpreted blues [songs]". First recorded in 1940 by Tampa Red, the song is a mid-tempo eight-bar blues that features slide guitar...
" (James) – 5:04 - "Locomotive" (Tedeschi) – 4:28
- "You're on My Hair" [instrumental] (Tedeschi) – 4:12
- "Better Days" (Hayes) – 6:40
- "Hound DogHound Dog (song)"Hound Dog" is a twelve-bar blues written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton in 1952. Other early versions illustrate the differences among blues, country, and rock and roll in the mid-1950s. The 1956 remake by Elvis Presley is the best-known...
" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 4:03 - "I Don't Want Nobody" (Robey) – 2:58
- "Ain't Nobody's Business" (Grainger, Robbins) – 7:33
Credits
- Susan Tedeschi – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
, vocals - Adrienne Hayes – guitar, rhythm guitar, slide guitarSlide guitarSlide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...
- Jim Lamond – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Annie Raines – harmonicaHarmonicaThe harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...