R.L. Burnside - Too Bad Jim (1994)

Burnside, encore…

Like many great Bluesman before him, R.L. Burnside is a connoisseur of chaos. Veteran of a thousand crazed moonshine-fueled house parties, himself the former proprietor of a series of country juke joints fabled for their toxicity, R.L. has long been the kind of guy you'd expect to yell ''fire'' in a crowded theater, just to see what would happen. In fact I've seen him wave a pistol in the middle of a packed juke point, which is pretty much the same thing. And than there was the time R.L. drifted past a microphone that just happended to be recording, mattering darkly to himself, ''The devil: that's who I've been serving.'' The scary thing is that R.L. thought nobody was listening. He is Blues Walking Like A Man, the living personification of Guitar Moan and Backdoor Slam, and all, absolutely, for real. - Robert Palmer, 199x


- 10 Tracks -
01 - Shake 'Em On Down [4:49]
02 - When My First Wife Left Me [3:48]
03 - Short-Haired Woman [3:43]
04 - Old Black Mattie [4:11]
05 - Fireman Ring The Bell [4:00]
06 - Peaches [4:19]
07 - Miss Glory B. [3:26]
08 - .44 Pistol [2:58]
09 - Death Bell Blues [3:55]
10 - Goin' Down South [5:51]

Produced by Robert Palmer
Recorded at Junior Kimbrough's juke joint, Chulahoma, Mississippi
and at Fat Possum World Headquarters, Oxford, Mississippi, in April 1993

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previous Burnsides:

R.L. Burnside - Well Well Well
R.L. Burnside - No Monkeys on this Train
R.L. Burnside - A Bothered Mind
R.L. Burnside - Come On In
R.L. Burnside - Wish I was in Heaven Sitting down
R.L. Burnside - Raw Electric
R.L. Burnside - A Ass Pocket of Whiskey