You may be aware it’s January again: congratulations on making it back and welcome to the year 2018. There are so many reasons why people don’t like January: it’s dark, it’s cold, and after the excessive festivities of December, January seems rather dull. These complaints and various others are symptomatic of the dreaded “January blues”, which is apparently a real mood-disorder and one that a few of our top national newspapers offer advice in combating. The Daily Mail suggests “lying flat on the floor with your legs raised”; The Independent says, “summer is a state of mind!”; and The Telegraph recommends “50 bright and cheerful buys” so that you can forgo feeling miserable for feeling miserable in a nausea-inducing neon knit.
Don’t worry though, whilst you wait for the return of spring and the chance to wear at least one less layer, Razz have another playlist for you. Featuring Laura Marling, Mavis Staples, and Jackson C. Frank, “EJ Plays: Blues Runs the Game” contains 1 hour and 9 minutes of music to accompany you through the rest of the month.
Blues Run the Game
Laura Marling – Blues Run the Game
May You Never
John Martyn – The Very Best of John Martyn
Little Girl Blue
Janis Joplin – I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
Three O’Clock Blues
B.B. King – Anthology
Wish I Had Not Said That
J.J. Cale – Shades
Witchita Lineman – Live at RAK
Villagers – Where Have You Been All My Life?
On the Banks of the Old Kishwaukee
Ryley Walker – Primrose Green
I’d Rather Go Blind
Etta James – Tell Mama
Cocaine Blues
Nick Drake – Family Tree
12 Bar Blues
Aaron Lee Tasjan – Silver Tears
Black Magic Woman
Fleetwood Mac – The PIous Bird of Good Omen
Little Bit
Mavis Staples – Little Bit
Clay Pigeons
Blaze Foley – Sittin by the Road
Green Onions
Booker T. & the M.G.’s – Green Onions / Behave Yourself
These Days
Nico – Chelsea Girl
Shelter from the Storm
Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Laura Marling – A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Angie
Bert Jansch – Bert Jansch
The Needle and the Damage Done
Neil Young – Decade
Blues Run the Game
Jackson C. Frank – Jackson C. Frank Remastered
Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/user/omgemilye/playlist/7eGo3iXziLA2YVW17TdN9Z
– Emily Earp
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