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JJ 5020LP
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$33.00
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 3/27/2026
Limited edition, 300 copies only. All on multicolored vinyl. Includes one bonus track. The Too Bad Jims got their name from the seminal Fat Possum album Too Bad Jim by the hugely influential blues musician RL Burnside. The band plays a gritty high-octane mix of North Mississippi Hill Country blues and boogie. It all initially started as a casual collaboration between two veteran and multiple award-winning musicians, Little Victor and Son Jack Jr. (both on guitar, no bass) and they shortly after rounded out the trio with the one and only 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. They released a killer debut album titled Over The Hill: A Tribute To RL Burnside 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. A kick in the ass actually.
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