Chords for Joe Boyd - What's In My Bag?

_ _ I never saw moons, knew [Fm] the meaning of the sea.
_ [Eb] _ I never held an ocean [Fm] in the palm of [Fm] my hand.
_ _ [Eb] I felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree.
[Bb] Hi, I'm Joe Boyd, a regular customer.
I'm very happy to be here.
I always find [Ab] great stuff at Amoeba.
_ These days, [Fm] most of my listening at home is to vinyl.
[Eb] But there are of course things that come out that you can only get on CD.
[Fm] _ _ [Bbm] Daphnis Prieto.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ You don't have a separate section for him, but you probably will need one in future.
He won the MacArthur grant, the $100,000 MacArthur award grant for great individual artists.
He's a Cuban [Bbm] drummer [Bb] who I met through [D] Yosvany Terry, who plays sax on this [Bb] record,
who was on the Cubanismo [A] records that I made [D] that came out on Hannibal.
And Daphnis, [Eb] he started as a conga [E] player and now he plays [Gb] a drum kit.
And he's [Db] just like [Ebm] the new genius of the drums.
[Bbm] You know, Tony [F] Williams, [Ebm] forget about it.
[C] _ _ _ [D] I've been meaning to get the Bad Plus for a long time.
_ [Ab] I'm so [Db] lonely, [A] but that's [C] okay. _
[D] _ I [B] shave my head.
I [Dm] was just in Minneapolis _ the [Ab] day before [Db] yesterday,
doing a kind of Nick Drake event with local [Bm] singers singing Nick Drake songs.
And Wendy [Dm] Lewis sang, and she [E] was terrific.
And then [Abm] she told me that she'd been doing a world tour with the Bad Plus,
[C] so I decided that would be [D] my first Bad Plus record.
[Eb] Now I don't pay attention to [Fm] new bands that much,
but when I was getting ready to do a [Eb] Nick Drake event at South by Southwest,
I was [F] asking the people there and other people like,
who [B] that's going to be at South by Southwest might be cool to sing a Nick Drake song at my event.
And they said, oh, the lead singer of Phosphorescent.
We'll _ _ pour through things [E] _ after. _
_ [B] And so I went and listened online.
I thought they were really good.
And then he couldn't do it because he was doing a gig exactly the [E] same time.
But then I saw them [B] in the parking lot of the San Juan Motel,
and I thought they were great.
And I got some expert advice from the Amoeba staff that this one,
the [E] middle one of the three was a great record.
[F] I'm going down to L.A. [Ab] on Monday to do a Q [Eb]&A at the Grammy _ Museum,
[F] _
[Fm] and they wanted me to [Eb] see if I'd get somebody to come in and sing [Fm] a Nick Drake song.
So [Ab] I got in touch with Lucinda Williams.
I found the love I've been looking for.
It's a real love.
It's a real love.
She was the very first person [A] to ever cover Nick Drake, the first major artist to cover Nick Drake.
Which will [E] you go for? _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ And [E] so I haven't got her new record, so I'm going to see her on Monday.
So [Em] I thought I better _ listen to that before I [A] go.
And this is a record I've had before.
This is Radio Tarifa.
[Db] Did you _ stay?
_ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ Rumba [Bm] Argelina. _ _
And [E] I was looking for it the other day in my collection.
I couldn't find it.
So here it is.
[A] Ten bucks.
_ [Abm]
I bought it.
[Fm] This looks like an old, [Eb] oh actually I didn't realize it wasn't a South African pressing.
_ [F] It's Shanaky.
But still, I don't have this Lady Smith Black Mombazo record. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
And having them on vinyl is always good.
This is kind of a legendary record.
Mongo Santa Maria, going back to Cuba.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ And it has [Bb] a kind of very exotic and [Eb] collectible phrase on [C] the back.
It [F] says, as [Bm] if [Fm] this is a good thing, [Dm] _ _ [Cm] recorded under the personal [Eb] supervision of the Fidel Castro regime.
_ [D]
You don't want to advertise that in your Miami [G] branch. _ _
[A] Together again with Ivo Popazov and Yuri Unakov. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ [Dm] I've made records with Ivo Popazov [A] in Bulgaria for [C] Hannibal back in the [D] 80s even.
[B] And _ he's incredible.
And this was a fantastic band.
[A] Salif Ali is a great drummer.
He and Daphne [B] Sprech are two of my favorite drummers in the world.
And Yuri was the sax player.
And I wrote [D] some letters that helped him get his green card to come to America.
[Am] And he's the only Bulgarian who's ever gotten a visa [D] to come live in America based on racial persecution.
[G] Because he's a Turkish gypsy.
And the Bulgarians were [E] very [A] hard on gypsies in general.
And Turkish speaking gypsies in particular.
This, [C] _ Gilberto Gil, Soy Loco Por Ti, America.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] This is a very [C] cool song of his.
And I just don't have this record.
And I'm a little light on Gilberto [Ab] Gil in my Brazilian collection.
This is kind of a curiosity.
[Eb]
It's a live recording at one of the very early [Dm] WOMAD festivals.
And _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [Dm] it's got Tumani Diabate, who I worked with a lot.
[Am] It's got Van Morrison.
_ It's got Toots and the Maytals.
It's got [Dm] _
_ _ the House Martins.
_ [D]
[Am] Flaco Imenes.
Weird collection.
Live on stage.
It's kind [Dm] of interesting.
_ King Sunny Ade.
[F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
I [Am] _ _ _ _ _
mean, I've got the first one.
This is the second one that Martin Messonnier produced [E] for Island.
It's the second one made by Martin Messonnier.
The first one is great in a way, but it's a really strange mix.
And this one [E] I've heard, [D] he kind of listened more to King Sunny Ade and did a better job of the mix.
_ So that goes in the collection.
And this is [Eb] another one like that Ottoman one.
It's like [F] immigrants, Eastern European immigrants.
_ [Eb] Dances in America [A] in the 20s. _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ [A] I love this kind of stuff.
You know, I have a lot of that _ [B] _ Yazoo series about the Golden Treasury [E] of the world or something like [B] that.
They have all the series of old recordings.
Anyway, that's the kind of stuff I like.
[D] Thank you so much for being [Am] here today.
Okay, [D] pleasure. _ _ _ _ _
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[E] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Am]
You're welcome.
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