Sonny Hotchkins - Break Up Blues

 Sonny Hotchkin's latest Break Up Blues has the possibility of becoming a blues standard. Has the subject of ending a romance, and how it' so difficult to get over it. Match the subject matter with some fine guitar playing and singing, it amounts to a classic of blues.

Sonny is still on the road playing blues clubs, mostly on the East Coast, so we don't see him much in the studio. He's doing more song writing, so maybe he'll be recording more often. We're glad to report that his efforts to remain alcohol free have been successful. He tells us that he only drinks water most of  the time, but allows himself to drink Diet Pepsi when he's playing a gig!

I woke up feelin' sick with the flu 

My heart is sad, feelin' blue 

Can't seem to get free 

You're an addiction to me 

What am I gonna do without you? 

 

 Go out with some of my friends 

Ain't tryin' to make no amends 

It's all over, I know 

Try my best to grow 

Use it to change all the trends 

 

Break up blues got me in it's grip 

It's all I can do to survive 

My emotions are startin' to slip 

And I feel all used up inside 

 

We quit each other mutually 

Really wasn't up to me 

Your love for me was dead 

Tried to break up nice instead 

Of havin' a shoutin' spree 

 

Try to think of ways I can let 

Myself relax and forget 

Booze only makes it worse

Takes money from my purse 

So I ain't gonna relent 

 

Break up blues got me in it's grip 

It's all I can do to survive 

My emotions are startin' to slip 

And I feel all used up inside 

 

So I suppose I'll just suffer 

Without you as my lover 

But it haunts me evry day 

Turns me ever which way 

Most everthing is just a big bother 

 

 I tell ya, Break up blues got me in it's grip 

It's all I can do to survive 

My emotions are startin' to slip 

And I feel all used up inside