 Too Bad Jim (1994) [ larger cover art ] |
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Poor Black Mattie ain't got a change in clothes
Girl got drunk, close that door
Poor Black Mattie ain't got change o' clothes
Girl got drunk, throwed her clothes outdoor
Goin' to Memphis, see the World's Fair
Reason I'm goin', baby, there
Goin' to Memphis, see the World's Fair
Reason I'm goin', know my baby there
Need no heater fireplace by my bed
Women I got cherry red
Need no heater fireplace by my bed
Woman I got, keep me cherry red
Woman I got, keep me cherry red
Girl got drunk, close that door
Poor Black Mattie ain't got change o' clothes
Girl got drunk, throwed her clothes outdoor
Goin' to Memphis, see the World's Fair
Reason I'm goin', baby, there
Goin' to Memphis, see the World's Fair
Reason I'm goin', know my baby there
Need no heater fireplace by my bed
Women I got cherry red
Need no heater fireplace by my bed
Woman I got, keep me cherry red
Woman I got, keep me cherry red
| tkelley | Posted: Apr 22, 2013 - 08:46 (former member) wrote: This song is soooo good for the ears... and the timing is soooo apropos... love this radio station... Yes. pretty much any song in the RP could get this comment above. Keep up the good work Rebecca and Bill! |
| Pedro1874 (Newton-le-Willows, England) | Posted: Feb 18, 2013 - 11:31 Need no heater fireplace by my bed, woman I got keeps me cherry red I used to know a woman like that when I was a lot younger!  |
| Mystery Guest (somewhere else) | Posted: Feb 18, 2013 - 11:28 Going good with my local beer, Labatt 50 |
| suesblues (Sydney, Australia) | Posted: Oct 23, 2012 - 09:09 just love this classic blues, enough to shake off the monsoon blues here in Madras at the moment :-). Please play some more.........  |
| jansys | Posted: Oct 16, 2012 - 01:53 Zep wrote: It's bad you know. That's when I told her! |
| Zep | Posted: Sep 30, 2012 - 12:17 It's bad you know. |
| rockpommel16 (rockpommel´s land...dreaming of netherlands) | Posted: Sep 14, 2012 - 12:32 romeotuma wrote: This song is soooo good for the ears... and the timing is soooo apropos... love this radio station... ....your sooo right,romeo....... |
| AndyJ (Oregon) | Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 12:12 More Dancing Music.... "Feets don't fail me now-!"... Gotta dance... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 12:12 Everybody in my hotel room loves this song... |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Apr 09, 2012 - 11:00 This song is soooo good for the ears... and the timing is soooo apropos... love this radio station... |
| d-don (Oregon) | Posted: Apr 09, 2012 - 10:52 RL could bring it   |
| Carl (The Summit City) | Posted: Mar 24, 2012 - 18:56 pinnyrat wrote: The more RL the better. The more RP the better. :-) |
| pinnyrat | Posted: Oct 02, 2011 - 07:48 The more RL the better. |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: Jun 14, 2011 - 07:26 Toke wrote: Who came first R.L. or John Lee Hooker ??? sounds as if one taught the other.. but which way round I will have to check out. Apparently John Lee Hooker made everyone wanna play the guitar! from the wiki (emphasis mine): "Burnside was born in Harmontown, Mississippi, in Lafayette County. He spent most of his life in North Mississippi, working as a sharecropper and a commercial fisherman, as well as playing guitar at weekend house parties. He was first inspired to pick up the guitar in his early twenties, after hearing the 1948 John Lee Hooker single, "Boogie Chillen" (which inspired numerous other rural bluesmen, among them Buddy Guy, to start playing). He learned music largely from Mississippi Fred McDowell, who lived nearby in an adjoining county. He also cited his cousin-in-law, Muddy Waters, as an influence." |
| C019740 | Posted: Dec 23, 2010 - 05:36 Give me some scotch at Legends! |
| badgerv | Posted: Dec 07, 2010 - 07:42 Check out Hillstomp's version of this song... |
| Toke (Bournemouth UK) | Posted: Nov 21, 2010 - 12:50 Who came first R.L. or John Lee Hooker ??? sounds as if one taught the other.. but which way round I will have to check out. |
| nicolewe | Posted: Nov 21, 2010 - 12:26 Nice...makes me want to visit the south for some good 'ol blues...  |
| paulmack (the hissing swamps) | Posted: Nov 05, 2010 - 14:35 Ericocean wrote: North Mississippi Allstars do a good version of this Haven't heard NMA's version - I do like the grittiness in the RLB take. |
| BerkeleyAlice (Salinas CA) | Posted: Nov 05, 2010 - 14:32 I totally agree! I really like their version! It's definitely a long play version with lots of guitar. GREAT SONG!!! Ericocean wrote: North Mississippi Allstars do a good version of this |
| Ericocean (Cumberland, Maryland) | Posted: Jul 17, 2010 - 04:32 North Mississippi Allstars do a good version of this |
| fingerpin (OhiO) | Posted: Apr 28, 2010 - 14:41 Bam ba lam!  |
| Otomi (La orilla de la civilización) | Posted: Feb 08, 2010 - 15:34 lwilkinson wrote: Sounds like a guitar riff in search of a song. "Hmmm, got me a riff, got me some rythum, got me no words, how do I end this thang?" Poor Black Mattie ain't got a change in clothes, girl got drunk, close that door |
| buzmaggie (AZ, US) | Posted: Nov 06, 2009 - 10:36 sweet medicine thanks rp!         |
| lwilkinson (North Am-Home of the Last of the Rugged Individualists) | Posted: Nov 06, 2009 - 10:35 Sounds like a guitar riff in search of a song. "Hmmm, got me a riff, got me some rythum, got me no words, how do I end this thang?" |
| WayUpNorth (Down on the Farm) | Posted: Nov 06, 2009 - 10:35 WOOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!! |
| ginniet (Spokane, WA) | Posted: Nov 06, 2009 - 10:33 shawshank wrote: Now that is a blues song!   |
| smdeeg (SillyCone Valley) | Posted: Oct 21, 2009 - 16:53 banesheim wrote: . . . I hope we see the days like the 90's where . . . Are we reminiscing about the good ol 90's now?  No comment on the worth of that, just feeling old. Oh yeah. RL kicks ass! |
| shawshank (Maryland) | Posted: Sep 04, 2009 - 09:12 Now that is a blues song! |
| jmurphyjr | Posted: Sep 04, 2009 - 09:10 Follows perfect from Mayall's classic California, thanks Bill! |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Aug 19, 2009 - 15:31 R.L. Burnside; he knew how to play the blues! |
| lmic (Narrow Minded Couch Potato) | Posted: Aug 03, 2009 - 20:30 5 -> 8. Whoa. Three years of RP has really brought me around on classic Blues. Thanks, Bill |
| Bazooka (Mountain View, CA USA) | Posted: Aug 03, 2009 - 20:29 OH! AH! Ohg! F....kj |
| radioparadisehead (The Dirty Dirty) | Posted: Jun 01, 2009 - 07:00 If you liked RL, check out all his relatives and friends. They're still all over North Mississippi. |
| bobcat1963 (the netherlands) | Posted: Mar 30, 2009 - 01:37 R.L. Burnside is cool! This is the first song in about a hour which really swings & rocks |
| diazo (high in the northern rockies) | Posted: Oct 07, 2008 - 08:31 If you like raw, gritty blues, you've got to get this album. RIP RL |
| bb_bubbab (Way high in the mountains in SE New Mexico) | Posted: Oct 07, 2008 - 08:24 Juices flowin'... toe tappin'... Chair dance. everybody! |
| ThePoose | Posted: Jul 04, 2008 - 13:34 Love the hypnotic rythym of Mississippi Hills blues |
| xc_para_puravida | Posted: Jul 04, 2008 - 13:33 Oh, HELL yeah! |
| banesheim (Mars) | Posted: Mar 16, 2008 - 10:34 horstman wrote: Was Jim Morrison. You know, like in dead, deceased, no longer in existence. Go to the library indeed! And he was not a waste of human flesh. He just had too much free time on his hands along with alot of money to spend on drugs. And not the best outlook on life. It is all or nothing these days. Either it is the blue pom pons or the red. Love them or hate them, no live and let, ahem die, I mean live. We, they. Okay, I'll stop now. I hope we see the days like the 90's where optimism was not a dirty word and the end of a culture which has deified fear. Morrison was okay too. Peace |
| Otomi (Una hermosa barranca en el centro de México) | Posted: Jan 13, 2008 - 11:48 Ain't nothin' like the real thing. |
| shanester (Denver, CO) | Posted: Dec 28, 2007 - 18:08 One of the few artists that left this Earth that I will miss, and didn't get to see. Along with Gatemouth, we lost a lot the past year or so. Rock on, RL  |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, and land of the vague) | Posted: Nov 11, 2007 - 16:32 drtjdel wrote: In his autobiography, Gene Simmons says R.L. not only had a significant influence on KISS's music, but their costume design as well. |
| d00kie (In Cubicle Hell!) | Posted: Sep 25, 2007 - 14:02 fcatalao wrote: ditto |
| arserocket (Way down South West Scotland near boredom) | Posted: Sep 25, 2007 - 14:01 Am shakin ma tushe (tushe much information?) |
| Dahlia_Gumbo (San Francisco) | Posted: Aug 09, 2007 - 09:54 Yeeee-essssss.    |
| horstman (Syracuse, New York) | Posted: Jul 24, 2007 - 16:39 maryte wrote: Blessed relief to hear the wonderful R.L. Burnside after the waste of human flesh that is Jim Morrison.
Was Jim Morrison. You know, like in dead, deceased, no longer in existence. Go to the library indeed! And he was not a waste of human flesh. He just had too much free time on his hands along with alot of money to spend on drugs. And not the best outlook on life. |
| drtjdel | Posted: Jul 24, 2007 - 16:38 lester wrote: Don't like the condition of the cover photo, so . . .
 In his autobiography, Gene Simmons says R.L. not only had a significant influence on KISS's music, but their costume design as well. |
| Lonestar (St.Catharines, ON) | Posted: Jul 24, 2007 - 16:36 Love that this is played here! |
| birdland (Right about ....here.) | Posted: Jul 08, 2007 - 21:17 maryte wrote: Blessed relief to hear the wonderful R.L. Burnside after the waste of human flesh that is Jim Morrison.
Mmmmmmm. Vitriol. |