'Big White Door'' From box set album Blue Guitars Album Number Nine Celtic & Irish Blues.Chris Rea released his box set album, Blue Guitars in 2005. Consisting of 11 CDs and 1 DVD (Dancing Down The Stony Road), the album is Rea's testament to blues. Each album contains self compositions, played and performed in a specific genre of the blues.The box set includes a book containing reproductions of colourful paintings by Rea. In an interview with the Britsound Radio Show, Rea declared that this box set album is a result of his love for the blues it's just my first love. You know if you take music as romance, then blues was my first love you know, it's my wife. And it's with me all the time, and I just adore it.Blue Guitars is a Blues album released by Chris Rea on October 14, 2005 consisting of eleven CDs, one DVD and a full colour book, including paintings by the artist, liner notes and song lyrics. The album is an ambitious project with the 137 songs recorded over the course of 1 years with a work schedule according to Chris Rea himself of twelve hours a day, seven days a week. Initially the project was inspired by Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey and can be called an odyssey in its own right, for depicting a journey through the various epochs of Blues Music, starting at its African origins and finishing with modern time Blues from the 60s and 70s.Subsequently the eleven CDs are titled the following: Beginnings , Country Blues , Louisiana & New Orleans , Electric Memphis Blues , Texas Blues , Chicago Blues , Blues Ballads , Gospel Soul Blues & Motown , Celtic & Irish Blues , Latin Blues and 60s & 70s .The collection is the fifth and last release in a line of Blues recordings, Chris Rea has made since recovering from a serious disease at the turn of the millennium and promising himself a return to his Bluesy roots in the event that he survived. According to Rea Blue Guitars will be his last solo effort however, he will continue to release albums as a member of the band Memphis Fireflies .The Blues went in yet another direction, when it started to mingle with Celtic and Scottish Irish influences, forming still another hyid. The general feeling of sadness, loss and blues, which is inherent in the Scottish, Irish and Celtic roots anyway, together with an all new instrumentation could lay the basis for a different kind of approach, giving the Blues the typical Celtic feel.Lyrics:Looks like I'm flyingBut I'm crawling slowlyI learn the way to swimIs just to let it goDon't expect nothingDon't smile or grieve no moreExcept maybe a little more painAnd a little more closelyTo the big white doorFirst time I saw itMy fear ran wildScreaming like a drowning manCrying like a childBut each time I lashed outIt seem a little closer than beforeThen it rose up like a giantThe screaming silenceOf that big white doorOf that big white doorNow I'm gliding on the fast flowNow I'm falling through the airSeems like everything is moving slowlyNow I find I don't seem to careA little closerA little darker'Til there's nothing else moreJust the universe in shadowOf the big, the big white doorOf the big white door