Sunday October 31, 2021 “Still Got the Blues” Gary Moore

Gary Moore is one of those great guitarists that more people should know about. 

Moore has played in several bands most frequently with Thin Lizzy with his Belfast contemporary and Thin Lizzy band founder Phil Lynott and has done studio work with artists as varied as Andrew Lloyd Webber, Rod Argent, Jack Bruce (Cream) and Greg Lake (Emerson Lake & Palmer) just to mention only a few.

Moore was a big fan of guitarist Peter Green from the earliest configuration of Fleetwood Mac...remember the ‘Green Manalishi’ from rainbow week's colors...so much of a fan that he purchased Green’s 1959 Les Paul Standard guitar and played it as his go-to instrument for many years.
Today’s song comes from the album of the same name, Still Got the Blues, the most renowned and best-selling release of Gary Moore’s career, and the album featured such special guests as Albert Collins, Albert King, and George Harrison. 

Here's some rock & roll legal irony, in 2008 Gary Moore was successfully sued by a relatively unknown German rock group, Jud’s Gallery, who claimed that Moore had lifted the guitar lick in today’s song from their unrecorded eleven minute opus “Nordrach”.  Go figure.

Gary Moore, often described as a virtuoso, has been cited as an influence by many other guitar players. He unexpectedly passed away of a suspected heart attack in the early morning hours of February 6, 2011, at age 58, while vacationing in Spain.

Stay safe and well...and Moore definitely has the blues along with amazing guitar skills on today’s song.

Used to be so easy to give my heart away

But I found out the hard way

There's a price you have to pay

I found out that love was no friend of mine

I should have known time after time

So long, it was so long ago

But I've still got the blues for you

Used to be so easy to fall in love again

But I found out the hard way

It's a road that leads to pain

I found that love was more than just a game

You're playin' to win, but you lose just the same

So long, it was so long ago

But I've still got the blues for you

So many years since I've seen your face

Here in my heart, there's an empty space

Where you used to be

So long, it was so long ago

But I've still got the blues for you

Though the days come and go

There is one thing I know

I've still got the blues for you