I’D RATHER HIDE DEEP IN THE BACKWOODS

I’d rather hide deep in the backwoods
Where my eyes they cannot see
And my ears can’t hear your voices
Just the birds and the wind through the trees

I’ll be riding in the morning
So I can make it right on time
And this old road just keeps on callin’
But doesn’t keep me satisfied

Sometimes I hear a demon callin’
As I’ve been turned away too long
There is a river overflowing
It will spread and sink my heart

I threw my phone out of the window
I wanna hear that mountain sound
We’ll be strolling by the river
Where them crickets are just loud

We’ll be waking in the morning
As that gentle rooster crows
When the night comes at the campfire
Howlin’ at the stars that glow

Last night I heard that demon crawlin’
I turned around and it was gone
It’s just that lonesome whistle blowin’
That will spread and sink my heart

I’d rather hide deep in the backwoods
Where my eyes they cannot see
And my ears can’t hear your voices
Just the birds and the wind through the trees

04. I'D RATHER HIDE DEEP IN THE BACKWOODS

Recorded by Gianni TBAY, mixed by Guglielmo Nodari. 
Mastered by Matt Bordin at Outside Inside Studio  
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© 2022 The Blues Against Youth - All Rights Reserved

REFUGEE

You can crush my skull-bone
You can bend me on my knees
But my multitude is gaining ground
Through the trails of blood and weep

Well you say that ain’t your business
And lock yourself inside your home
Blood’s running from your doorstep
As the tide gets high and low

As the tide gets high and low
And the tide gets high

No where I’m running
No way to go
No mercy given
Covered in blood
In raging waves drifting
I’ll be among the dead just floating

Walked across the desert through pure hell
Then they dragged me right on board
Yet another bloody step ahead 
Till I reach that freedom shore
Some got raped and beaten
Some have been thrown into the sea
Down there in the abyss
There’s a hidden cemetery

No where I’m running
No way to go
No mercy given
Covered in blood
Under the sun is scorching
I’m lost at a wrong fate’s mercy

Now they say I am the one to blame
And their whip will set me free
‘cause no matter where you’re coming from 
on the trails of blood and weep

And you have voted for security
As they patrol and make sure
There will be more slaves a-coming
As the tide gets high and low

As the tide gets high and low
And the tide gets high

1. REFUGEE

OBLIVION 

Spirits took me down the valley slope
Where the river, it silent goes 
Along the blank we grope
Air has never been so pure and clean
Life feels someone else’s dream and empty to the brim

Is memory lying? 
It feels like I’ve been here before
Wondering why
It was someone who is no more
Dark was the night
Lined up the stars 
Again

Hit the rocky trail to reach your goals
And ended up just off the road with no direction home
Hope has never been so out of sight
I’ve waited for another ride with my three opened eyes

Is memory lying? 
It feels like I’ve been here before
Wondering why
It was someone who is no more
Dark was the night
Lined up the stars 
Again

We waited for the day sat by the fire
Gazed the sky and even higher
I wondered how could be a liar laying on that ground
Climbed up the middle hill at the break of dawn
Two snakes are guarding the back door
their lightning black and green was shinin’ over you

Is memory lying? 
It feels like I’ve been here before
Wondering why
It was someone who is no more
Dark was the night
Lined up the stars 
Again

10. OBLIVION

PARTICLE FILTER BLUES

On an early morning
Headin’ to the West
Wish the weather liked me
Wish I could have taken a little rest
There’s just one thing that makes it kinda loose
The king of drag takes center stage, that’s the particle filter blues

Passed another wheeler
Always in the red
Diesel engine’s screaming
Hope it’ll make it to 400 miles ahead

In terms of un-predictiveness of life
Particle filter levels up the discomfort of the ride
Sure it does, babe

06. PARTICLE FILTER BLUES

Recorded by Gianni TBAY, mixed by Guglielmo Nodari. 
Mastered by Matt Bordin at Outside Inside Studio  
© 2022 Four Flies Srl 
© 2022 The Blues Against Youth - All Rights Reserved

GOIN’ TO CHICAGO

I’m going to Chicago with a song in my head, it’s in my head
Got a blues that seems too hard to shake
Grab my guitar, hop the train

The way’s getting narrow
It’s all paved with sorrow
It feels like where I come from

Standing by the corner in my suit
With my bad attitude I got them people
now they dance to me
Now feeling kinda soothed, feeling fine
Hips are shaken, girls are making goo-goo eyes at me

Cigars, they’re a-hissing
Whisky’s a-flowing
There’s nothing I’m missing
But the place where I come from

Did I say I like it? Needed a little break.
I need a break and a lucky break now
In so many ways

Who knows if tomorrow the sun will shine on my backdoor again?

From the streets up to the neon lights
Burning fast, it goes my ride
I’m strumming, pickin’, sliding, howlin’, stompin’, rollin’ down the line

Then what you thought was beaten, it comes around
And gets you low
Way down to the killing floor
Where you’re bound

The Devil, he got me
The women, they’re lying
My house is a-burning down there where I come from

Did I say I like it? Needed a little break.
I need a break and a lucky break now
In so many ways

Who knows if tomorrow the sun will shine on my backdoor again?

02. GOIN' TO CHICAGO

SLANTED PATH

You must have heard the news out on the radio
You must have seen the riots on the streets
you took for granted that fate would never treat you bad
now that time has come and you can barely breathe 

They made you smell the scent of rights democracy
then cheated you with some old-fashioned lies
All of a sudden you are feeling unprotected
You no longer know what’s true and what is right 

This path is slanted and you can’t help it
It’s getting darker on your way back home
Your knees are bended 
Your prayers unheard
when you got lost you found yourself alone

the fear and tension game has played just properly
the shades are wide and moving pretty quick
maybe that trick someone would be just playin’ on you
is yet another missing chance for you to fight 

This path is slanted and you can’t help it
It’s getting darker on your way back home
Your knees are bended 
Your prayers unheard
And you got lost and found yourself alone

In this irrational and crazy world you’re livin’ in
you might end up just buyin’ a big fat lie
while dodging trouble on your way you might wake up
from there will be for sure a hellish ride 

This path is slanted and you can’t help it
It’s getting darker on your way back home
Your knees are bended 
Your prayers unheard
And you got lost and found yourself alone
Your knees are bended 
Your prayers unheard
when you got lost you found yourself alone
when you get lost and find yourself

03. SLANTED PATH

08. DEVIL'S TRAIN

BLUE MUSE

Ain’t no reason to hurry
Though my heart is still runnin’
Hate to wait on you babe
chasin’ someone’s mostly never funny

So the minutes pass by
It feels like thousand years to me
I can’t kick you off my mind
And that phone will never ring
Jivin’

Not sure I wanna know
Where you’ll take me to
But baby, 
You didn’t even give me a chance to choose
As you just keep telling
You don’t wanna get chased
And if someone does it you will run away – hey

You 
You’re so blue
You, blue muse

I’d rather better suck that smoke dry
As I did it to you last night
As you bit me back and pushed me
Hard and smooth and just fine
Dig it

Not sure I wanna know
What’s beyond that door
You babe you never get me any time to choose
So I keep just tellin’ 
Let the good time roll
But there must be something
I didn’t take into account

Cold rainy morning
That song of yours stuck in my mind
long enough to realize
I cannot really shake it

Got your spell upon me, babe
I’m in for mistreat
Turned me off and on and sick 
yet another lonely night to beat

Thought I’d make it through
But you’re too dark and too crazy and blue
And above all you didn’t leave me any chance to choose
laid all my aces down on you
soon I’ll be long gone
and you bet I’m running far away from you all
you are so blue
you, blue muse

it took me 700 km up north to be exact 
Far away from you
and your threatening heart-abuse

07. BLUE MUSE

GOIN’ TO EAST TEXAS

I’m goin’ to East Texas 
To fetch that good ole gal
And it’s a long long long long way

I’m sitting in the backseat
Truly having fun
Watching through the window pane

I found her in Chicago
Displayed at Sloppy Joe’s
I smirked at her and she just did the same to me
I took her in my arms and hint a little harmony
She filled that filthy air with happy tones

If it takes one or two more cloudly days
Sho nuff I will not mind to ride
If the rain comes down the sun will shine
You know I know I ain’t counting any mile

We took our way down south to get some music city thrills
Got lost on Broadway honky tonks with tourists on our heels
We cruised around the countryside 
We hitch-hiked and we camped
We crashed in creepy stations me and my little girl

It’s been a year, we got together down that 61
In cotton fields and graveyards, I picked and she rang
It felt like our paths were meant to cross on one fine day
She whispered in my ears some very dirty things

If it takes one or two more cloudy days
Sho nuff I will not mind to ride
If the rain comes down the sun will shine
You know I know I ain’t counting any mile

Then on the day we parted ways she looked so sad and done
We belted out some tunes 
Made out for one last time
She knew she would have been my very special little girl
And me I knew I would have seen her again
So I’m goin back to Illinois 
Where my journey begun
And it’s a long long long long way
Sittin’ in the backseat
Having som much fun
Just watching through the window pane

If it takes one or two more cloudly days
Sho nuff I will not mind to ride
If the rains comes down the sun will shine
You know I know I ain’t counting any mile

05. GOIN' TO EAST TEXAS

The Blue Against Youth’s  raison d’être is to distil the essence of the past into something once more pure and while the sound might well be dirty, the concept is as pure as the driven snow all the way through these twelve tracks. (Bluesbunny, review 2013)

It's Been A Long Time, Mama

side B of my first 7'' "Become The Whiskey" (2010)

Livin' In A Lie (but dreamin')

from "Pure At Heart Blues" (Deer It Yourself, 2011). 

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Mattia Candeloro at M.House Studio, Roma, 2011

Featuring Andrea "Merendina" Cruciani on Harmonica

Pure At Heart Blues

11.The Lake

cover version of Hank Williams' "(I heard )That Lonesome Whistle Blow"

6.Lonesome Whistle Blow

5.Somebody Settles Down

2.Medium Size Star Bound

1.Keep It Goin'

New 10" EP by The Blues Against Youth's extended version: "The Restless Livers Collective."

Credits

All songs written and performed by Gianni TBAY, except "Another Pretty Country Song" written by David Allan Coe, and "Lonesome Road" written by Doc and Merle Watson.

Recorded and mixed by G W Nodari. 
"Good Morning Bad Feeling" recorded and mixed by Manuel Volpe.
Mixed by Pisi 

Released by Beast Records, 2017

10 - Rising Sun Blues (live)

09 - Soul Mercenary Blues

06 - Lonesome Road (by Doc Watson)

05 - Got Blood In My Rhythm

04 - Another Pretty Country Song (by David Allan Coe)

03 - It's Been A Long Time Mama

02 - (You've Got) That Reason Why (You Know)

01 - Good Morning Bad Feeling

from the 7" EP "You Said I Praise The Devil?" by The Blues Against Youth.

recorded, mixed and mastered by Cangiarlo Barbati at Snake's Studio, Roma, Feb 2012. 

Released by Deer It Yourself Records in the year 2012. 

You Said I Praise The Devil?

from The Blues Against Youth's second full length album "Trapped In The Country".
Released by Off Label Records and Deer It Yourself Records in 2013

Soul Mercenary Blues

from The Blues Against Youth's second full length album "Trapped In The Country".
Released by Off Label Records and Deer It Yourself Records in 2013.

get your copy at http://www.offlabelrecords.de/index.php?cat=Releases&page=12%20-%20inch

On The Hill


from The Blues Against Youth's second full length album "Trapped In The Country".
Released by Off Label Records and Deer It Yourself Records in 2013.

get your copy at www.offlabelrecords.de/index.php?cat…12%20-%20inch

mouth-harp solo by Andrea Cruciani

Light Bearer Song

" [...] At first one might be tempted to simply insert The Blues Against Youth's sound under "roots rock," but that doesn't quite do it justice. Nearly, mind you, but not quite.
With a hollow-bodied electric six-string guitar, kick drum, voice, whistle, hi-hat, and an unusual piece of stomp percussion he calls his "invisible iron snare," he has developed his sound from a slower, more organic and traditional one to what it is now -- raw, gritty blues coupled with dirty, primitive rock'n'roll and outsider country." 
 James G. Carlson, one man band examiner

“The Blue Against Youth’s  raison d’être is to distil the essence of the past into something once more pure and while the sound might well be dirty, the concept is as pure as the driven snow all the way through these twelve tracks.”  Bluesbunny.com

THE BLUES AGAINST YOUTH 
country rock primitive one man experiment

Hailing from Rome, Italy, The Blues Against Youth is a one man band project led by Gianni TBAY who performs vocals, guitar, bassdrum, hi-hat and whistles simultaneously. His sound comes directly from the seventies, looks back at the old country tradition of Hank Williams and smirks at the sixties, moving towards some gritty rock’n’roll filled with a punk attitude. 
TBAY has been rocking around since 2009, performed over 800 shows in all Europe, released three full-length albums (“Pure At Heart Blues” in 2011 , “Trapped In The Country” in 2013 and "Apprentice" in 2016) and five 7”. In 2017 TBAY unleashed two new releases: "Barbed Times" 7" out on Skronk Records, and the 10" "Good Morning Bad Feeling/Deprecation Road" out on Beast Records, this last one premiered at the Binic Festival in July 2017. 


Discography:

“BECOME THE WHYSKEY” – 7” (Brigadisco, Burning Sound, 2010)
“SPLIT W/ THE RIBEYE BROTHERS” – 7” (Escape From Today, 2011)
“PURE AT HEART BLUES” – LP (Primitive Records, Sonatine Produzioni, 2011)
“YOU SAID I PRAISE THE DEVIL?” EP– 7” (Deer It Yourself, 2012)
“TRAPPED IN THE COUNTRY” LP (Off Label Records, 2013)
“DOTTED WHITE LINE” SPLIT W/ THE CYBORGS – 7” (Bloody Sound Fucktory, 2014)
“APPRENTICE” – LP (Beast Records, 2016)
“BARBED TIMES” – 7" (Skronk Records, 2017)
“GOOD MORNING BAD FEELING / DEPRECATION ROAD” - 10" (Beast Records, 2017)

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