I'm so depressed

"Oh lord, I'm so depressed. Help me somebody I need some rest." - Abner Jay

So I was in Montreal this past weekend for the jazz festival (which was awesome), and I happen to catch Basia twice. The whole experience was terrific and I'll write about it later, now I want to talk about her cover of "I'm so depressed" by Abner Jay.

The fact that Basia was playing the jazz fest at all was a bit strange, only because she doesn't really play jazz. Maybe that's why she chose to play a sort of jazz-blues. In any case it was delightful.

I have an Abner Jay album although admittedly I haven't listened to it much. The album I have, "One Man Band", includes "I'm so depressed" which has some interesting, clever, and amusing banter in the beginning about cigarette butts.

"You know they're going to stop making them king size cigarettes and start making them queen size ones because it's got a bigger butt."
"Do you know why elephants don't smoke? Because they can't get their butts in the ashtray!"
The song is Classic blues.

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Basia really crushed this cover. She really worked her voice inflections into the song and made it all her own. Standing up there with a ukulele-like instrument she delivered trembling vocals ("I need somebody to hold my hand.") which at times erupted with powerful passion ("Will there be someone, someone to wipe. Dry the tears from my eyes?) It was really incredible.

I had never heard her do this cover before so I'm assuming it's pretty new. It once again showcased that heartbreaking side of her music that makes songs like "Before I Knew" and "In the Night" that much better.

"Oh lookin' back across my life, Oh lord I'm so depressed."

EDIT:
Check out these tube's for some ok recordings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=satbvYy73QU <-BB Hillside festival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0GKsiHF20o <-BB Montreal JazzFest (day 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILPBxkiYyLA <-BB Montreal JazzFest (day 3)

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