Steve Tracy - I Ain't Beggin'
Channel: Red Grey Matter
Date: 2021-03-20

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A singer and harmonica player, Tracy has recorded with his own band, Pigmeat Jarrett, Big Joe Duskin, and Albert Washington, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and opened for B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Albert King, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, James Cotton, Canned Heat, Johnny Winter, and many others.
While a senior at Walnut Hills High School, Steve won a national harmonica championship for ages 13-18 that put him as a guest on the Johnny Carson Tonight Show, initiating his career as a performer. He also appeared locally on a number of variety shows, including Nick Clooney’s (George’s father) and Bob Braun’s, taking along Cincinnati bluesmen when possible. Tracy toured the Netherlands with Steve Tracy and the Crawling Kingsnakes following the release of the CD Going to Cincinnati, performing also in the UK, France, China, and via teleconference to Israel. He has also written 50 CD liner notes for a variety of labels, including Document Records, and for Albert Washington’s two releases on Ace (UK).
As a long-time researcher and supporter of the Cincinnati blues scene, Tracy organized his activities in such a way as to emphasize the importance of the scene in a variety of ways. As a writer for Blues Unlimited, Living Blues, Jefferson, and Juke Blues, he document the history and contemporary Cincinnati blues scene. Steve has also served as a co-performer, sometime booking agent, and friend of a variety of bluesmen, helping nurture the careers of Cincinnati’s elder statesmen of the blues.
Steve spent over a decade as a blues DJ on WAIF, WNOP, and WVXU radio stations during that time helping to organize blues days and blues cruises on the Ohio River. He produced an LP by Pigmeat Jarrett for June Appal Records, which brought Pigmeat some national acclaim and gigs outside the country, and he did Pigmeat’s obituary on NPR. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Greater Cincinnati Blues Society along with his friend Albert Washington the year he left Cincinnati for Massachusetts. He returns to Cincinnati annually to host the Blues and Boogie Woogie Piano Stage at the Greater Cincinnati Blues Festival, and periodically performs at the Festival as well. Lyrics: (guitar ... opening & starting the journey)
I ain't beggin' nobody baby
Baby, Please come back to me
I ain't beggin' nobody baby
Baby, Please come back to me
When I'm feeling too bad about the situation Baby,
Please end my misery
(sax & guitar orderly in companion with lyrics)
I've got blisses of my fingers
Scratching on my baby's door
I've got blisses of my fingers
To room, Scratching on my baby's door
Even if I get through with the scratching
I can't help,
But beg for more
(harmonica ... going on & rise up)
I'm gonna bow me a Pit Bull dog
Clamp down on my baby's hand
I'm gonna bow me a Pit Bull dog
Clamp down on my baby's hand
You know she won't reach out to touch me
But at least you won't go out braced in sad(dness)
(harmonica … the last rise & closing)

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