Chords for Stephen Bruton Tribute Video Part1

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Turner Stephen Bruton built a high-end reputation as a writer and performing artist.
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He was a virtuoso [A] guitar player, singer, _ [E]
songwriter, actor, [D] record producer, storyteller, _ _ and a
good friend to many.
[C] _ _ Stephen grew up immersed in music.
His [E] jazz drummer father ran a record store where Stephen and his brother Sumter would
be treated to only the very best that music had to [A] offer.
_ [B] A native of Fort Worth, Stephen was uniquely positioned from the very beginning to enjoy
his musical destiny.
[Bm] _ _ _
Waiting for a long _ time.
_ [F] My dad was a really [F#] good _
[B] jazz drummer.
He was a good drummer period, but his forte was [E] _ bebop and also [Em] big band.
Sumter and I grew up [B] listening to everything that he brought [E] home to play.
_ And that makes an [Em] imprint on you when you're a kid.
And then about the [G#] time that he [A] started this record store, he started [E] selling records [C#] and
you were listening to everything.
All the [A#m] time.
I remember going [E] to a concert over here at TCU and my dad [A] was playing.
[F] And my mother and I [C#m] were sitting there and she asked me if there was something up [B] there
that I liked.
[E] And [E] I remember looking at Charlie Pearson playing guitar and said, I like [B] that.
That sound just went through me.
[F#m] I remember very vividly, because I walked in the back, I almost [C#m] felt sick to my stomach.
I was just like, _ [B] I couldn't get over how cool that instrument was.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] I had a little [E] bluegrass band and Jenkins Garrett and _ Cinco Phillips _ [A] and David [Em]
Ferguson.
[C#m] _ _ _ [E] There wasn't [F#m] really a scene and [E] there was just a bunch of kids that were kind of like-minded.
And this wasn't [A] unique.
That was [E] before there was a scene anywhere.
_ You weren't trying [B] to be in [E] a scene.
You were really playing because you wanted to play music.
_ _ _ _ [Em] Scene or no scene.
[C] Fort Worth had a tradition of musical exchange between black musical [D#] giants like T-Bone [D] Walker
and Ornette Coleman _ _ and [C] white kids [G] who would follow them.
_ During his [C] teens, Stephen and his buddy T-Bone Burnett recorded tracks in Burnett's studio.
_ In between, performing [B] with the likes of Delbert McClinton.
_ [A#] For Stephen, it was [D] bluegrass by day and blues at night.
_ Well, T-Bone [F] _
Burnett and I produced the first Robbery Lee and the Five [A#] Careless Lovers live
at the new Bluebird Lounge.
_ [D]
Something was playing on that and _ basically we put a console on the pool [G] table and the
band played and everybody drank.
It was a wild night.
It was [C] great.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
I said, all right, we'll do it this way.
You [F] be the engineer, T-Bone, and I'll throw the party.
That's basically what [Cm] happened.
_ _ [D#] But by 1970, [C] change was in the air.
_ I had gone to LA with T-Bone Burnett and John Fleming.
_ And that was pretty cool.
I really liked it, but it was a bit much.
[F#] And my friend, Lindsey [F] Holland, my oldest friend in the world, had wound up in [Gm] Woodstock,
New York.
That's when Van Morrison was [F] up there and I think Dylan was up there and the band [C] was up there.
That band called the [G] Great Speckled Bird that was playing with [Cm] Jim Karlgrove and Amos Garrett.
So I thought that was [F] much more my liking.
And it was a good thing [G] I went to Woodstock, actually, because I was able [D#] to woodshed on guitar _ _ [G] nonstop.
I heard from a guy _ that [F] Van Morrison was looking for a guitar player [G] that I would be perfect [C] for it.
[F#]
I had like $100 I [B] was going to start a [D#] checking account. _
_ So I went in there and I was in line to put my [F] 50 bucks or whatever it was by that time
in the bank.
[F#] And Van Morrison was [E] at the head of the line because he was leaving town that day to move
to San Francisco. _
[C#] _ I met Chris here in Fort Worth.
He was friends with Jim Minker who [F] called me and said, look, there's a friend of mine
coming to town.
He's a [A#] songwriter.
I [C] know that you're a musician.
Would you be interested in meeting [G] this guy?
And then the next time I saw him, I saw that he was coming to [F] New York.
[G] So I had like I had three dollars and I got in my girlfriend's sister's car and drove
from Woodstock [C] to New York.
It was _ freezing cold.
And I got there.
He and Carly Simon were walking out. _ _
_ I said, what are you doing here?
[G] And I said, I came to see him.
He goes, I just [C#] finished.
_ I had no idea that they played so [A] early.
_ _ Steven [E] would indeed go on the road with Chris Christopherson in 1971 [B]
and over the next two
decades with Delver McClinton, _ [E]
Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie [A] and others.
I don't want you, baby.
I [E] just want someone to hold me.
I [B] got too much rock and roll to [E] be a wife.
_ _ _ _ I [A] can't live without a wife.
And [E] I'm scared of growing older.
Though [B] I'm bound to keep on running for [A] my life.
_ _ _ _ He [E] would also do session work with everyone from Bob Dylan, [A] Johnny Cash, [E] Carly Simon,
Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffett and a host of others. _
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_ _ _ _ [E] But it was Christopherson who [G#] had launched Steven's acting career.
_ [G#m] _ So deep in the soul.
Too _ many ways.
I _ can't.
_ _ [F#] _
In [D#] 1976, Chris called me and _ asked me if I would come out and work on The Stars Born.
We were [E] having fun and talking back to each other, but we were getting a lot done.
_ _ [G] I look over and there's Streisand that had walked in the door.
And she turned to Chris at one point [B] privately and said, [G] I've never heard [Em] a sideman talk back to the artist.
[E] And he goes, they're not sidemen.
These are my best friends.
They got to turn this stuff into rock and roll.
They [G] are rock and roll.
The next night we were to be rehearsing her stuff.
And [D] she said, I can't believe how [F] good you guys played [A#] my stuff.
I [F#] just think she thought of us as just [B] being _ these kind of.
[F] Well, we were pretty wild.
_ [A] Steven successfully expanded from being a [F] musical sideman into acting, appearing both [G] in movies and [N] on television.
_ _ Put that around top of your head.
Afraid you stepped in this time, boy.
Can you talk to him?
The crazy son of a bitch.
I expect this will be a good lesson for you. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Hey, Mike, _ give me a pint.
Birthday, huh? _
Your worst.
_ Sure you want a whole one? _
Oh, yeah.
Hit me big time, baby.
Jimmy.