"For You Blue" is a George Harrison composition which features John Lennon on "lap steel guitar using a shotgun shell as a bottleneck." Also, apparently the title of the song was "an error in writing and the title was actually meant to be 'For You Blues'." The quiet line spoken by Lennon in the beginning is "Queen says no to pot-smoking FBI members," an introduction added by Spector.
Although it's not my favorite Harrison song, "For You Blue" nonetheless holds a certain charm. It's a bluesy kind of song, and a love song (as all the best blues songs are), and if George excelled at anything, it was writing love songs (and playing bass). :) For those reasons, I'm a fan of this one. I particularly enjoyed the laughing lines that George says. He seems to be having fun.
That's it for now. See you tomorrow as I wrap up Let It Be with my 200th song (!) and hit up the Past Masters for all the singles we've missed along the way. :)
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Heard It Tally: 49
Songs Completed: 199
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