Blues Traveler - Run Around album flac

Run-Around" is a song by American jam band Blues Traveler, featured on the 1994 album Four. The song was the band's breakthrough hit, peaking at number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 13 on Canada's RPM Top Singles chart. It won the band's first Grammy Award in 1996, for "Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. Run-Around" debuted on June 24, 1993, during a solo show featuring Blues Traveler frontman John Popper.

Four (stylized as four) is the fourth album by American rock band Blues Traveler, released on September 13, 1994. Blues Traveler broke into the mainstream following the release of four. four peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and is most known for its hits "Run-Around" and "Hook", which charted at No. 8 and 23, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100. Both songs also charted in the top 20 on the Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock charts

Blues Traveler frontman John Popper was caught in the "friend zone" with the band's original bass player, Felicia Lewis, when he wrote this song. Their next album, Straight On till Morning contained a song called "Most Precarious," which sounded precariously similar to "Run-Around. The first line in this song is a play on part of the poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote: "Once upon a midnight dreary, I woke with something in my head. so he is addressing the girl. John Popper often puts allusions to famous works in his lyrics. There were some rumors that this song is about Spin Doctors lead singer Chris Barron.

Produced by Michael Barbiero & Steve Thompson. Oh, once upon a midnight dearie I woke with something in my head I couldn't escape the memory Of a phone call and of what you said. Like a game show contestant with a parting gift I could not believe my eyes When I saw through the voice of a trusted friend Who needs to humor me and tell me lies Yeah, humor me and tell me lies. But you Why you wanna give me a run-around? Is it a sure-fire way to speed things up When all it does is slow me down? And shake me and my confidence 'Bout a great many things But I've been there, I can see it cower Like a nervous magician waiting in the wings.