Too Bad Jim

by R.L. Burnside

Too Bad Jim cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Fat Possum
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 41:04
  • Community rating: 3.75/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Produced by Robert Palmer and recorded at Junior Kimbrough's legendary juke joint, 'Too Bad Jim' captures the unadulterated, raw power of North Mississippi hill country blues. Burnside's droning, hypnotic guitar riffs and stomping rhythms bypass traditional 12-bar structures, delivering an aggressively electric and relentlessly repetitive blues masterpiece.

Genres

Descriptors: minimalistic, rhythmic, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Shake 'Em on Down (4:49)
  2. When My First Wife Left Me (3:48)
  3. Short-Haired Woman (3:43)
  4. Old Black Mattie (4:11)
  5. Fireman Ring the Bell (4:00)
  6. Peaches (4:18)
  7. Miss Glory B. (3:26)
  8. .44 Pistol (2:58)
  9. Death Bell Blues (3:55)
  10. Goin' Down South (5:51)

Credits

  • R.L. Burnside - primary artist
  • Bruce Watson - engineer [assistant]
  • Keith Perler - engineer [assistant]
  • Robbie Norris - engineer, remix, mixed by
  • Lauri Lawson - photography by
  • Robert Palmer - producer, mixed by, liner notes

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