'Miss Maybelle' THE TOO BAD JIMS (Space Eko East, London) BOPFLIX sessions

Описание: BOPFLIX session with high-octane North Mississippi blues trio THE TOO BAD JIMS (USA/UK) performing 'Miss Maybelle' (from the album 'Over The Hill - A Tribute To RL Burnside' on Thunder Town Music). Filmed at Space Eko East Recording Studio. Recorded and by Alex McGowan, mixed by Victor Mac and Alex Barron at The Yard Studios in Brighton & Hove, mastered by Rawand 'Ray" Baziany at Black Shack Recordings, Calw.

THE TOO BAD JIMS:
Son Jack Jr - guitar and vocals
Little Victor Mac - guitar and vocals
Nick Simonon - drums

The Too Bad Jims got their name from the seminal Fat Possum album "Too Bad Jim" by the hugely influential blues legend RL Burnside. They play a gritty mix of North Mississippi Hill Country blues and boogie.

It all started as a casual collaboration between two veteran and multiple award-winning musicians, Italian-American Little Victor and British-American Son Jack Jr. and they shortly after rounded out the trio with English ace drummer Nick Simonon (Brother of Paul Simonon of The Clash) on drums and things really started cookin’

Their unique and unusual combination of dual rough and ready vocals, bare-bones electric guitars, slashing bottleneck, and a heavily rhythm-oriented groove, delivers a hypnotic, raw, and earthy sound typical of a North Mississippi juke joint.

After relocating to the London area from Seattle, Son Jack Jr (an avid long-time player of this style of blues) got in touch with the "Beale Street Blues Bopper" Little Victor Mac who he had befriended on social media since Victor's glory days with Louisiana Red in the late 2000s.

The two men never met in person until a couple of years ago but ever since their first jam, they sounded like they’d been playing together since day one. Little Victor (who moved to England a little before Son Jack Jr.) has deep knowledge of this style of music, particularly RL Burnside.

When he was younger, he played with RL Burnside, Robert Belfour, Jessie Mae Hemphill, and many other "backwater" artists from the Memphis/North Mississippi area. His dear ole uncle David Evans is responsible for Burnside's first recordings by George Mitchell in 1967. Years later, Evans managed and recorded RL, Junior Kimbrough, and Jessie Mae Hemphill for High Water Records.

Victor's cousin legendary "cult" artist and filmmaker Tav Falco first filmed RL in his juke joint in the early 1970s and Victor clearly remembers watching this video over and over again when he first started to play guitar. Burnside himself showed Victor how to play Black Mattie, Long Haired Doney, Skinny Woman, and many other songs he currently plays with the band.

Nick Simonon (who played with Pearl Harbour and toured with The Clash, The B-52's and Talking Heads, among many others, sounds just like RL's grandson Cedric Burnside playing drums like his father (and RL's first and "historic" drummer) Calvin Jackson, keeping the trio "loose" and "together" at the same time.

Their killer debut album titled "Over The Hill - A Tribute To RL Burnside" (Thunder Town Music) is a selection of well-known to fairly obscure songs from Burnside's repertoire totally in the spirit of RL's album "Too Bad Jim." Opting for the same type of funky, low-down approach that gives the music an immediacy that more polished blues albums lack, has been acclaimed on both sides of the pond since its release


LIVING BLUES MAGAZINE (USA)*****
"Their performances on this record are absolutely scorching..."

BLUES MATTER MAG ****
“They represent the real essence of blues music, unfiltered and immediate...”

BLUES ROADHOUSE MAGAZINE *****
The Too Bad Jims give the slogan “keeping the blues alive” fresh meaning..."

BLUES IN BRITAIN (UK) ****
"A timely reminder of how good (North) Mississippi Blues can be..."

Listen: https://thetoobadjims.hearnow.com/
Contact: [email protected]
Bookings: [email protected]
Belgium/Netherlands bookings: https://www.rd-roots-agency.nl

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'Miss Maybellle' (lyrics)

Oh, Miss Maybelle let me be your hoppin' frog
Drink muddy water and sleep in a hollow log
Oh Miss Maybelle let me be your hoppin’ frog

Got ten little puppies and twelve little shaggy hounds
Takes 22 dogs to run Miss Maybelle down
Oh Miss Maybelle, let me be your hoppin' frog

Oh Miss Maybelle walkin' down the street
Two slices of meat, ain’t neither one fit to eat
Oh Miss Maybelle walkin' down the street

Oh Miss Maybelle walkin' down the street

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