Chords for Behind the Hits: Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Mark Selby on "Blue on Black"

[D] I've been talking about Kenny Wayne Shepard, so I'll play the song that
Been [A] the most successful the ones [D] I've written with him
_ And _ [Bb] this actually is something that will demonstrate a lot of what we've been talking about
_ [D] It started partly from a guitar riff
guitar lick and
[Bbm] Kenny Wayne had he was playing [D] something and _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ I [Gb] suggested we drop the low [D] string down to Dean
_ _ _ _ [N] _ So
The melody of this really got built around that lick
I think a lot of times it's cool and and rock and especially blues based rock
To make your met your vocal melody kind of fit around the cool musical part that's going on.
That's an important feature
Then this lyric is I wouldn't say abstract like we've been talking about but it more impressionistic in a way
It's a pretty straightforward kind of a approach to a lyric
But it's definitely a little more impressionistic than I feel like you'd get away within a country song on country radio
So this is called blue on black.
The chorus is a series of repeated metaphors.
It's kind of a device in this lyric anyway
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ Oh Hey
_ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ Tears on a river
[G] Sure, don't mean [D] much
Number on Jack match on a fire.
[C] Hold [G] on.
I said it man's touch [D] whisper on a screen
[G] Doesn't change a thing
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Yeah, [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
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but [C] _ [G] _ now [D] I see _ _ [C] Truth
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_ [C] [G] Lies
And in [D] between _ _
[C] Wrong [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] wrong
Can't be _ [D] undone _
_ [C] [G] Sleep _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] sleep
From the tip of your [D] tongue _ _
[G] Hey _ _ [D] blue on black
Tears on a river
[C] Push [G] on the shoe Hold on
Don't mean [D] much
Number on Jack match on a fire [C] [G] Hold on
I said it man's [D] touch
Whisper on a screen
_ [G] Doesn't change a thing
Don't [A] mean a thing Yeah
[G] _ Blue [D] on black
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[G] _ _ _ _ [F] _ [D] _ Tears on a river
[G] Push on the shoe Hold on
[D] Jack match on a fire [C] Hold [G] on
I said it man's [D] touch
Whisper on a screen
_ [C] [G] Doesn't change a thing
Won't [A] bring you down [G] Yeah
_ _ [D] Blue on black _
_ [C] _ _ [B] [G] Yeah
[D] Blue on black [G] Yeah
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Thank [A] you
You know an interesting question
I think [Gm] a lot of people watching
Want to know is
Are there elements of
Rock that you bring
To your country song writing
Are there elements of your country song writing
That you bring to rock
I think you're exactly right Absolutely because _
_ Kenny or
Kenny another Kenny Kenny Chesney
Somebody working with Kenny
Came up to Tia Sillars and I
Tia and I wrote that with Kenny Wayne Shepard
By the way
The reason we ended up with the title of Blue on Black
Kenny Wayne and I were jamming on the guitar
Kenny had a
Kind of black and blue
This is why you need a woman sometimes to write a song
Kenny Wayne is wearing a
Blue with black t-shirt
And Tia sat in there pondering as we were
Endlessly jamming on the guitar
Wow I wonder if that's a blue print
On a black shirt or is it a
Black print on a blue shirt
Is it blue on black or black on blue
As we're jamming away
She goes hey I think I might have a title for this song
And what was cool about that
Is then we got
In really thinking about it we came up with the [N] approach of
Using that as the first of a bunch of Repeated metaphors
At any rate
Kenny Chesney supposedly was over in the islands
And hears Blue on Black on the jukebox
In a bar he's in
And tells the rest of the folks at the table
I bet some Nashville people wrote that song
And went over and looked
At the 45
I think back when they were still 45's And said
Yep those are two Nashville cats
So he was
Of course he has great song sense
He was sharp enough to figure out
It sounds like maybe a couple Nashville people