Top Ten Songs Sharing Titles With a Poison Song: Poor Boy Blues (#2)

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This has been fun, I have to say. JJ mentioned that a song I’d used in a previous countdown had the same title as a song by the 80s band Poison, so I looked for other song titles…and found ten! (More than ten, actually, but…) So we’re winding down with the title matches, and I’ll have to look and see if any other band did a song called “D’yer Mak’r.” Meanwhile, here’s the penultimate song. #2: Poor Boy Blues - Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler Down the slippery “slope,” NJ Chic! I know you haven’t heard the song, but you know who Dire Straits and Chet Atkins are, if only by name/reputation. And Linda? No. Migraine territory. I’ll make it up to you tomorrow. As for the song, every time I think of “Mr. Guitar” I think of the line in his autobiography where he said Steve Sholes, the head of RCA’s A&R department (which Atkins would later head himself), asked him if he could sing, given that RCA didn’t want to sign him strictly as an instrumentalist. Atkins wrote his reply: “‘Sure,’ I lied.” He was no Jim Reeves (Atkins produced Reeves’ big hits), but Mark Knopfler sings well enough (and Atkins sang quietly enough) to make it work. For their efforts, Atkins and Knopfler won a Grammy for “best vocal performance” for this song. Poor Boy Blues Written by Paul Kennerley Recorded by Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler From Neck and Neck, 1990 Do I need you: