by Frank Gualtier -- 10/12/06
Photo by Andre Constantini
If ever there was a song I would readily recommend to anyone regardless of their genre preferences or any other factors and feel completely certain beforehand that they'd be moved -- Cat Martino's 'Just Love Me' would be that song.Her tone color reminds me a little bit of Sophie B. Hawkins at times. Both ladies can emot you to breakpoint but once they start working the mojo the timbral similarities end.
Cat goes off to some place I can't even fathom and conjures up the spirits of rapture to her beck and whim. I don't know that I've ever heard a voice so overwhelmed and overwhelming at the same time.
From a formula and chord structure standpoint 'Just Love Me' is extremely simple as you'll see below. While I didn't transcribe the electric guitar that moans along with Cat's heart wrenching vocals -- it's also fairly basic -- pretty much just poignantly placed notes riding a blues scale.
While discussing the simplicity aspect of the song with Cat she made the following remark:
"that song happened in a magic moment, was just written, not prepared to be recorded, so effortless!"
Beautiful and so apt. I think the nature of the beast in song is best served by not forcing incarnation.
This song and others, some of which can be sampled at Cat Martino's myspace profile, will be included on an album that's not finished baking just yet but I believe is not far off.
If you haven't heard Cat Martino sing 'Just Love Me' I highly recommend you hit up her myspace profile and do so. You'll thank me for it.
Cat Martino
Conjuring the Spirits of Rapture
Alright -- crack out that guitar...
See suggested fingering for chords below song.
Capo at the 4th fret
-- start --
Em D
oh darlin'
C D
you lift me up to the place i be-
Em D
long. that is why
C D
all of my days i will be singing this
G D
song. love me pure
Em D
love me more
G D
just love
Em D
me
C D
Em D
C D
Em D
don't need you to be
C D
my sugar baby
Em D
just want you to rest
C D
right here until you confess that you
G D
know no one
Em D
no one
G D
can bring you home like i
Em D
do. and i
C D
do. gonna bring it home to
Em D
you. ooh
C D
Em D
when you're alone
C D
so far away that you can't see my
Em D
face. go to an open field
C D
lay yourself down there and faithfully
G D
wait. call my name
Em D
just call my name
G D
and i will come fall down on you like the
Em D
rain. like the
C D
rain. like the
Em D
rain
C D
Em D
ah uh uh uh ah ah ah
C D
ah uh uh uh ah ah ah
Em D
ah ah uh uh uh ah ah ah
C D
ah uh uh uh ah ah ah
Em
-- end --
Suggested fingering for chords
E A D G B e
-----------
Em 0 2 2 0 0 0
C 0 3 2 0 1 0
G 3 2 0 0 0 3
D 0 0 0 2 3 2
We're in swing time. Every single phrase of this song has
the exact same emphasis points as shown in the example of
the first phrase below and the transient D -always- lands
4 v--HERE
1 2 3
Em D
/ / / / / /
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3
Cat plays this with a capo at the 4th fret so I annoted it
as such. If you play sans capo here are the actual chords:
Shown | Actual
------+-------
Em | G#m
C | E
G | B
D | F#
Links for Cat Martino:
dance of destruction | here now | Upcoming Album DocuBlog |
