• Track: Them Changes
• Artist: Buddy Miles
• Album: Them Changes
• Year: 1970

Lyrics:

Well, my mind is goin’ through them changes
I feel just like commitin’ a crime
Every time you see me goin’ somewhere
I know I’m goin’ outta my mind, yeah

Oh, my baby, she left me the other day
And we were havin’ a lot of fun
Oh, she knew I just loved her so
And that’s the reason why she had to run

It’s all right
You know what I mean
It’s all right
What I say
It’s all right
Oh, yeah

Well, my mind is goin’ through so many changes
I’m goin’ right out of my mind
Every time you see me goin’ somewhere
I could commit a big ol’ crime, yeah

She had me runnin’
She had me riddin’
She had me runnin’, hidin’
Riddin’, runnin’
Had me runnin’
She had me hidin’

She had me runnin’
She had me riddin’
She had me runnin’, hidin’
Riddin’, runnin’
Had me runnin’
She had me hidin’

Had me runnin’

That’s right, yeah
Had me runnin’
Had me hidin’
She had me runnin’
Had me hidin’
Yeah, yeah

It’s all right
What I say
It’s all right

Well, my mind is goin’ through them changes
I feel just like commitin’ a crime
Every time you see me goin’ somewhere
I feel like I’m goin’ outta my mind, yeah

Every day that she left me alone
She didn’t have much to say, no no
Every time she stepped out on me
She didn’t know how I feel, yeah

Oh what to tell, she try to fool me
She didn’t know what I feel like
Every time, she did see me
She didn’t know no, no
Oh, my darlin’

Today on Dances With Bass Radio, we are getting the funk out with none other than Buddy Miles. Some of you might be familiar with Buddy Miles, though I am betting that most of you don’t know just how influential he was in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Miles was a member of Jimi Hendrix’s band on the Band of Gypsys album, the first Hendrix album without his original band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Band of Gypsys was the last album released by Hendrix before his death just six months later.

Buddy Miles was born George Allen Miles, Jr. in 1947, and prior to playing with the legendary Hendrix, he was the founding member of The Electric Flag, which released one critically acclaimed album, A Long Time Comin’ in March 1968, and recorded a soundtrack for The Trip, which was a movie about an LSD experience starring Peter Fonda. The movie was written by Jack Nicholson.

In addition to Miles, The Electric Flag included  Mike Bloomfield, of Butterfield Blues Band fame, and keyboardist Barry Goldberg who played with Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, Howlin’ Wolf, and Bob Dylan. Miles wrote many songs that were recorded by an eclectic group of artists, including Gladys Knight, Joe Cocker, Steve Miller, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Gram Parsons, and Rod Stewart.

Them Changes (the album) reached number 8 on the 1970 jazz chart, number 35 on the Billboard 200 chart, and number 14 on the 1971 R&B chart. Them Changes (the song) was never released as a single, yet it remains on the most revered soul/R&B tracks, having been played live by dozens of big names, including Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood who performed it for their Live from Madison Square Garden (2009) double album. As the lead-in to the song, Clapton acknowledges Miles who had just died the previous year.

Video:

In 2009, Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood performed Them Changes in Madison Square Garden. The entire album, Live at Madison Square Garden, is phenomenal. I own both the CD and the DVD versions, and you should, too…you know, if you want to be all hip and stuff like your favorite music blogger dude.

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