welcome to
Sadieville"Rise up in the morning. Butterflies stir your dreams and roll away with the morning fog any sorrow your day may bring." So sings Jim Langemo in the opening song "Virginia" of Welcome to Sadieville, his debut release for Barking Dog Records. "I believe in remaining optimistic for love in the face of sorrow and disaster," he explains. Welcome to Sadieville is a statement of emotion, a passionate expression of love and loneliness.
Jim's music, a rich mix of expressive, passionate vocals, bluesy harmonica, and raw acoustic and electric guitars -- backed by Craig Holets on bass and Emmett Dacey on drums with Tom Christianson on percussion -- evokes traces of Neil Young, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and a wide spectrum of blues and roots influences. Jim's passion for music and people becomes larger than life on stage through his vivid, poetic lyrics and exuberant performance.
Jim is a Minneapolis/St. Paul musician who has played in coffee houses throughout the Midwest including Kuppernicus Coffee Gallery, North Shore Coffee Company, Boathouse Coffee Club and the Laughing Cup and in clubs such as the Fine Line, Jitters and the 400 bar. He also performed at the 1996 Chicago Blues Festival.
Jim Langemo's shows are full of emotion and energy -- driving
band tunes and delicate acoustic arrangements combine to create
an infectious, compelling experience. Welcome to Sadieville
captures this variety and energy and will have you listening
again and again.
Produced by Mike Coates and Jim Langemo.
- Jim Langemo -- vocals, harmonica, 6 and 12 string acoustic
and electric guitars, harmonica
- Craig Holets -- bass
- Emmet Dacey -- drums
- Tom Christianson -- percussion
- Mike Coates -- keyboards
- Linda Coates -- backing vocals
- Craig Holets -- bass
Song List
Each one-and-a-half minute sound clip is a high-quality MP3 file which takes a few minutes to download. Need to download an MP3 player? Find one here.
1. Virginia
Words and Music by Jim Langemo
inspired by the books of Virginia Hamilton
- Rise up in the morning
- Butterflies stir your dreams
- And roll away with the morning fog
- Any sorrow your day may bring.
- Great grand mammy was a runaway slave,
- You know, she paved the way for me.
- Virginia, take me up to the mountain
- And let my freedom sing!
- "Lordy, Lordy," says my daddy,
- "So many ghosts beneath my feet.
- They passed away, but some would say,
- They passed their mourning unto me."
- You always hurt the one you love.
- My daddy works for strip mine companies.
- Virginia, take him up to the mountain
- And let his freedom sing!
- I can climb the paths on the mountain.
- Some made before. Some made by me.
- And I can run them in the day or night
- And those who are lost, I set them free.
- But with the fall comes a heavy fog,
- I get so lost. Help this blind boy see!
- Virginia, Take me up to the mountain
- And let my freedom sing!
- Butterflies stir your dreams
2. Sunny Afternoon
Words and Music by Jim Langemo and Robb McCarthy
3. Sweet Queen
Words and Music by Jim Langemo and Robb McCarthy
4. Clara Dawson
Words and Music by Jim Langemo
5. She's Got To Be Free
Words and Music by Jim Langemo
6. Boogie Woogie Woman
- Words and Music by Jim Langemo
- She closes her eyes when she sings
- Sings of joy loving brings
- Sings of making love at dawn
- Making love in her song
- She's a mover she's a shaker
- My boogie woogie woman she's my bluesbreaker
- So I'm breaking out all my hard cash
- Buy her a short dress and a big hat
- Take her out onto the dance floor
- Gonna swing until we want more
- We're lovers we're no fakers,
- My boogie woogie woman she's my bluesbreaker
- All night long I sing her praises
- She is charmed by my graces
- Soon we want to be alone
- We pass a church on the way home
- I tell her, "Baby when I meet my maker
- I'll say that boogie woogie woman she's my bluesbreaker
7. I Need Shelter
Words and Music by Jim Langemo and Mike Neece
- There's a mist hanging low like a Creeping Jew.
- Who's to say where it comes from? Is it rolling through?
- I've got a liver full of fire from cheap whiskey and rye.
- Sledge hammer pounding out my hammered eyes.
- Oh yeah, can you see where I'm coming from?
- Who's to say where it comes from? Is it rolling through?
- I need shelter from pain and regret,
- Shelter from my lonely bed,
- Shelter for my weary head.
- I need shelter. Sometimes I wish I was dead.
- Shelter from my lonely bed,
- There's a woman on the rack with alluring eyes
- And she taunts me as she flaunts her very naked thighs.
- I drink it in like it was my life blood's store
- Before you know me and her are out and through the door.
- Oh yeah, can you see where I'm coming from?
- And she taunts me as she flaunts her very naked thighs.
- I need shelter...
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- I scuttle through dark alleys on the darkest night
- My body's burning and my hands are a nervous white.
- Nothing in this world is gonna fix me nice.
- The only thing I look forward to is being on ice.
- Oh yeah, can you see where I'm coming from?
- I scuttle through dark alleys on the darkest night
- I need shelter...
- Oh Lord I'm a leanin' I'm a failin' fast
- If it wasn't for my banjo, I'd be on the grass.
- Like cannon fodder in broad daylight, I've got nowhere to turn.
- I'm on my blackened knees and my body's burnt.
- Someone please show me that there's day in my night.
- Can I find a smile in my petrified life?
- Someone please pull me from this sinking sand.
- Tell me my burden's carried by a loving hand?
- Oh yeah, can you see where I'm coming from?
- If it wasn't for my banjo, I'd be on the grass.
- I need shelter...
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8. Blues On My Trail
Words and Music by Jim Langemo
- Never trust a blond with Italian blood.
- She'll call you sweet Valentine and then she'll break your heart.
- I've been mistreated. I've been played for a fool.
- But I played the part she needed, Lord, I know it's true.
- I spend my nights in diners where the lights are low.
- I slip some gin into my water and I sip it slow.
- Johnny Cash is on the jukebox when the clock strikes three.
- I put my hands into my pockets and I step into the street.
- She'll call you sweet Valentine and then she'll break your heart.
- I've got the blues on my trail
- And the moon's grown cold and pale.
- I'll be driving all night tonight
- Until I'm finally safe inside;
- Home by the Silver Creek in the morning light.
- And the moon's grown cold and pale.
- Lord have mercy on my baby. Have mercy on my heart
- Lord have mercy. It's tearing us apart.
- I've been mistreated.
- I've been a mean mistreater, but I've learned.
- I'm gonna build a brand new home
- From the bridges that I've burned.
- I pull my harmonica from the pocket at my hips.
- What I suck into my sould, I breathe out through my lips.
- Lord have mercy. It's tearing us apart.
- I've got the blues on my trail...
9. Sadie's Song
Words and Music by Jim Langemo
10. She Deepens My Blues
Words and Music by Jim Langemo
11. Forever Untrue
Words and Music by Jim Langemo
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