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I Like The Street (Acoustic Thrash Version)

from STREET MUSIC (REMIXES & SPIN​-​OFFS) by Johnny J Blair "Singer at Large"

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This is the first recording of this road-tested track. Produced by Mark Doyon for the album TRADEMARKS, released on the Wampus International label.

I took this photo in 2014 in the San Francisco Civic Center, where I've had many a bike ride.

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“I like the street / I like the street

The hustle and the bustle and 
the people that I meet
The grifters and the star-struck
The poets and the drunks

The PhDs and jailbirds
The models and the punks

The barkers and the preachers and the friends that I hold dear

Some will bring you aggravation,
some will bring you cheer (beep beep)”

"I like the street / I like the street
Dancing on the asphalt as it rises to my feet
Cabs burst through the steaming grills as fists shake at the sky
Some people look happy and some look like they wanna die
Some have made a big impression
At the bridge where the vagrants sleep
Now we know why Jesus went up
On the hill to weep...oh yeah..."

"Some like open forests, there room enough to roam
But I like the urban think of it, well, makes me feel at home
People race to knock you down, others stop and yield
That's the pace here in this town, in this mission field
There are people who know many tongues
There are people who always lie
Now we know why Jesus went up
On the hill to cry...oh yeah..."

(Bridge): "Some people trying to find the alabaster
Some people trying to make the world go faster
Babylon skyscraper scraping up the sky
I don't know why I don't know why..."

(repeat verse one and vamp out)

I LIKE THE STREET lyrics & music by Johnny J Blair copyright 2005 Word2Soul Music BMI

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from STREET MUSIC (REMIXES & SPIN​-​OFFS), released February 23, 2017
JJB: guitar & vocals

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Johnny J Blair "Singer at Large" San Francisco, California

"Johnny is a virtuoso"--Brian Wilson
"Pop music with a conscience.”--Goldmine
“the Harry Houdini of rock and roll.”-- Spotlight. Listen to Johnny's fast-paced mix of old school soul, psychedelia, punk/new wave, & classic pop/rock. Singer-songwriter in his own right, he was also a sideman for Davy Jones and The Monkees + performed with David Cassidy, Al Stewart, Buddy & Julie Miller, & others. ... more

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