Chris Rea - Just In Case You Never Knew & Nobody But You (Mixed Tracks)

Just In Case You Never Knew & Nobody But You. From box set album Blue Guitars. Album number eight - Gospel Soul Blues & Motown and Album number eleven - '60s and '70s.

Chris Rea released his box set album, Blue Guitars in 2005. Consisting of 11 CDs and 1 DVD (Dancing Down The Stony Road), the album is Rea's testament to blues.
Each album contains self compositions, played and performed in a specific genre of the blues.

The box set includes a book containing reproductions of colourful paintings by Rea.
In an interview with the Britsound Radio Show, Rea declared that this box set album is a result of his love for the blues it's just my first love.
You know if you take music as romance, then blues was my first love you know, it's my wife. And it's with me all the time, and I just adore it.

Blue Guitars is a Blues album released by Chris Rea on October 14, 2005 consisting of eleven CDs, one DVD and a full colour book, including paintings by the artist, liner notes and song lyrics.
The album is an ambitious project with the 137 songs recorded over the course of 1 years with a work schedule according to Chris Rea himself of twelve hours a day, seven days a week. Initially the project was inspired by Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey and can be called an odyssey in its own right, for depicting a journey through the various epochs of Blues Music, starting at its African origins and finishing with modern time Blues from the 60s and 70s.

Subsequently the eleven CDs are titled the following: Beginnings , Country Blues , Louisiana & New Orleans , Electric Memphis Blues , Texas Blues , Chicago Blues , Blues Ballads , Gospel Soul Blues & Motown , Celtic & Irish Blues , Latin Blues and 60s & 70s .

The collection is the fifth and last release in a line of Blues recordings, Chris Rea has made since recovering from a serious disease at the turn of the millennium and promising himself a return to his Bluesy roots in the event that he survived.
According to Rea Blue Guitars will be his last solo effort however, he will continue to release albums as a member of the band Memphis Fireflies.

The Blues went in yet another direction, when it started to mingle with Celtic and Scottish Irish influences, forming still another hyid. The general feeling of sadness, loss and blues, which is inherent in the Scottish, Irish and Celtic roots anyway, together with an all new instrumentation could lay the basis for a different kind of approach, giving the Blues the typical Celtic feel.

Lyrics:

Just in case you never knew
I wanna say
What I feel about you
I wanna tell you
My love is true
Just in case you never knew

Just in case you never knew
Something deep inside
Make me feel oh so blue
Waiting for the sun to break through
So I'm saying it's true
Just in case you never knew

Oh, I've always loved you
Every day though it's crazy I know
My soul she won't let it go
She keeps telling me telling me telling me
So I got to let you know
Just in case, just in case
You never knew

Oh I know
This could make me look like a fool
But darling, oh darling I don't care
Baby I know
I'm acting so uncool
But I got to let you know
My love is there
So I'm telling you my love is true
Just in case you never knew

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I don’t like to be alone
I like a happy place
Any place that stops me feeling blue
Oh when my last drink is over
And gone
I’m wanting nobody but you

There’s a certain time each day
When the evening shadows fall
See them turning to the darkest violet blue
And my one and only picture
When I close my eyes
Nobody but you

Through the years nothing changes
And there’s so many that I knew
But every time it rearranges
There’s only one face
Comes shining through
Nobody but you

Through the years
Nothing changes
And there’s so many that I knew
But every time it rearranges
There’s only one face
Comes shining through
Nobody but you


Many Thanks to ATHENAMATS.