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R.L. Burnside — Old Black Mattie
Album: Too Bad Jim
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Released: 1994
Length: 4:09
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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
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EXCELLENT!!
 kbs wrote:

The CEOs of Budweiser, Labatt and Guinness meet at the annual Brewers Convention and go to a bar afterwards. The CEO of Budweiser says, "First round is on me!" and orders three Budweisers. They drink and chat, and after a while the CEO of Labatt says, "My turn!" and orders three Labatts. They drink and talk a bit more, until the CEO of Guinness says, "My turn!" and orders three Cokes. The others look at him, surprised, and ask him if he doesn't want to drink beer. He replies, "Well, as you didn't order any beer either, I thought you didn't want to..."

Alternatively, Canadian/American beer is like making love in a canoe...


LMAO!!! Too Funny!!!
 jumbo wrote:

they've gotta be laughing at this in europe. it's all the same. north american lager. watery at that. 


Are you insane?  You haven't been to North America in the last many years obviously. Since they reformed the laws back when I was a home brewer by necessity, all the microbreweries (now called "craft" beer) started growing like weeds. Now you can get all kinds of regional, hearty brews and many of them beat out Euro brews. Just sayin'. Trying to correct ignorance where it raises it's ugly head.
 jumbo wrote:

they've gotta be laughing at this in europe. it's all the same. north american lager. watery at that. 

The CEOs of Budweiser, Labatt and Guinness meet at the annual Brewers Convention and go to a bar afterwards. The CEO of Budweiser says, "First round is on me!" and orders three Budweisers. They drink and chat, and after a while the CEO of Labatt says, "My turn!" and orders three Labatts. They drink and talk a bit more, until the CEO of Guinness says, "My turn!" and orders three Cokes. The others look at him, surprised, and ask him if he doesn't want to drink beer. He replies, "Well, as you didn't order any beer either, I thought you didn't want to..."

Alternatively, Canadian/American beer is like making love in a canoe...

 haresfur wrote:
I love Mr. Burnside's music.

That's all for now.
 
Me 2....It's not too Bad You Know!  
 jumbo wrote:

they've gotta be laughing at this in europe. it's all the same. north american lager. watery at that. 
 
Oh yes we are - try Hopback made near Salisbury (England) https://www.hopback.co.uk/
 pankman wrote:
monotonous and stressful {#Beat}
 
I can find some blues monotonous, but what you find stressful, I find driving and that is what keeps it from monotony for me. Peace.
I love Mr. Burnside's music.

That's all for now.
 topherwren wrote:
 Canadian Labatt is best beer I have ever had.

Unfortunately no matter how much the Canadians thing there beer is better they still drink Labatt swill in a similar amount to Bud/Miller/Coors drinkers in the US drink. 

 

 
they've gotta be laughing at this in europe. it's all the same. north american lager. watery at that. 
This is where it all comes from. My woman keeps me cherry red. Royalties for R&R all belong here.
 TerryS wrote:
 Time for you to rethink, there are more craft breweries per capita in most provinces than in many states.

 
I have about 200 here in San Diego alone.  Love the choices now days but I still prefer my beer not to taste like flowers.
Mississippi Hill Country. I love it even better than delta.  Droning. Hypnotic.  There's a great video of Dave Stewart from The Eurythmics sitting on RL's porch playing this riff with him. 
 TerryS wrote:
 Time for you to rethink, there are more craft breweries per capita in most provinces than in many states.

 
True, and I love Canadian craft beers, but next time you're in the LCB, watch how many eejits walk out with cases of Bud, Coors Lite, all that crap. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink decent beer. 
 xtalman wrote:

Unfortunately no matter how much the Canadians thing there beer is better they still drink Labatt swill in a similar amount to Bud/Miller/Coors drinkers in the US drink. 

  Time for you to rethink, there are more craft breweries per capita in most provinces than in many states.


 velocette wrote:

This is American.

You get it? Great.

You don't get it? Tough. Go back to your cow bells and folk dances.

This is Africa by way of America. It tells a story too heartbreaking for most to hear.

 
yep, or as Leon Russell says;
.
 Now, all the southern children like to rock 'n' roll
The TV mamas tell you why
They got it on the boat from Africa
It's that Dixie lullaby
"This is American"  >>> ... doesn't make it more bearable. Annoying remains annoying. No offence! It's just my opinion!
 pankman wrote:
monotonous and stressful {#Beat}

 
This is American.

You get it? Great.

You don't get it? Tough. Go back to your cow bells and folk dances.

This is Africa by way of America. It tells a story too heartbreaking for most to hear.
shameless crowd-pleaser - but in any case, keep it coming —-  mo' RLB! {#Hug}
monotonous and stressful {#Beat}
 joetekubi wrote:
more RLB!
{#Daisy} 

 
I concur
more RLB!
{#Daisy} 
 Pedro1874 wrote:
Oh yeah😄😄 more RLB and JM please B & R 😊😊
 


R.L.Burnside -  Great !{#Sunny}
Oh yeah😄😄 more RLB and JM please B & R 😊😊
 Canadian Labatt is best beer I have ever had.

Unfortunately no matter how much the Canadians thing there beer is better they still drink Labatt swill in a similar amount to Bud/Miller/Coors drinkers in the US drink. 

 

"I didn't mean to kill nobody. I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head and two times in the chest. Him dying was between him and the Lord."

tough life. Amazing music 
What a shuffle!
 
 TerryS wrote:

Good grief! I thought people stopped drinking Labatt 50 years ago.

 
Unfortunately no matter how much the Canadians thing there beer is better they still drink Labatt swill in a similar amount to Bud/Miller/Coors drinkers in the US drink. 
LISTEN UP, FOLKS!

Bill is playin' the real stuff now!

APPLAUSE from Germany! 
This song convinces me that RLB is in the line of the true great ones, legit descendant of Blind Lemon Jefferson on through Lightnin Hopkins and all the rest.
Can't beat a bit of R.L. Burnside.
{#Angel} ........ is enjoying this tune a lot
 Mystery Guest wrote:
Going good with my local beer, Labatt 50
 
Good grief! I thought people stopped drinking Labatt 50 years ago.
 Otomi wrote:
Ain't nothin' like the real thing.


 
amen.....{#Dancingbanana}
burnside kiks butt....{#Bananajam}
Feet be dancing as I try to work at computer...

Tried to resist and have surrendered to the Happy Feet
 tkelley wrote:

Yes.  pretty much any song in the RP could get this comment above.  Keep up the good work Rebecca and Bill!
 

Indeed...  love this song...  love Radio Paradise...  we be dancing...
 
big stud Romeo Tuma wrote:


This song is soooo good for the ears...  and the timing is soooo apropos...  love this radio station...

 
 

I be the holy ghost of big stud Romeo Tuma...

love this song...
 
 (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!
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! {#Fire}
just love this classic blues, enough to shake off the monsoon blues here in Madras at the moment :-).  Please play some more.........{#Bananapiano}
 Zep wrote:
It's bad you know.
 
That's when I told her!
It's bad you know.
 romeotuma wrote:


This song is soooo good for the ears...  and the timing is soooo apropos...  love this radio station...

 
 
....your sooo right,romeo.......
More Dancing Music.... "Feets don't fail me now-!"... Gotta dance...
RL could bring it {#Bananajam}{#Dancingbanana_2}
 pinnyrat wrote:
The more RL the better.
 
The more RP the better. :-)
The more RL the better.
 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."
Give me some scotch at Legends!
Check out Hillstomp's version of this song...
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.
Nice...makes me want to visit the south for some good 'ol blues...{#Cowboy}{#Cowboy}{#Cowboy}
 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.
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
 


North Mississippi Allstars do a good version of this
Bam ba lam! {#Devil_pimp}
 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
Poor Black Mattie, ain't got change o' clothes, girl got drunk, throwed her clothes outdoors
Poor Black Mattie...
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 keeps me cherry red


sweet medicine thanks rp!{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Bananajam}{#Fire}{#Bananajumprope}{#Bananapiano}{#Bounce}{#Devil_pimp}{#Sunny}{#Heartkiss}{#Drummer}{#Kiss}{#Clap}{#Guitarist}{#Guitarist}
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?"


WOOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!! {#Devil_pimp}
 shawshank wrote:
Now that is a blues song! {#Dance}
 

{#Dancingbanana}
 banesheim wrote:
. . . I hope we see the days like the 90's where . . .
 
Are we reminiscing about the good ol 90's now?  {#Eek}

No comment on the worth of that, just feeling old.

Oh yeah.  RL kicks ass!

Now that is a blues song! {#Dance}
Follows perfect from Mayall's classic California, thanks Bill!
R.L. Burnside; he knew how to play the blues!

5 -> 8. Whoa. Three years of RP has really brought me around on classic Blues. Thanks, Bill {#Sunny}
OH! AH! Ohg! F....kj
If you liked RL, check out all his relatives and friends.  They're still all over North Mississippi.
R.L. Burnside is cool! This is the first song in about a hour which really swings & rocks
If you like raw, gritty blues, you've got to get this album.  RIP RL
Juices flowin'... toe tappin'...  Chair dance. everybody!
Love the hypnotic rythym of Mississippi Hills blues
Oh, HELL yeah!
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
Ain't nothin' like the real thing.

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
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.
yes, you can tell by the boots.....
fcatalao wrote:
FCUK!! I LOVE RADIO PARADISE
ditto
Am shakin ma tushe (tushe much information?)
Yeeee-essssss.
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.
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.
Love that this is played here!
maryte wrote:
Blessed relief to hear the wonderful R.L. Burnside after the waste of human flesh that is Jim Morrison.
Mmmmmmm. Vitriol.
RLB so very very great
Here's a great RL Burnside song as background to a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8hccsivyI4
I love this. Nice pic of you and your dog too RLB :-)
Love this! Bill, please play more R.L. Burnside.
Cor, this rocks.
I heard R.L. in the late 90's for the first time - he is fantastic! R.I.P. Mr. Burnside, I hope the family will benefit from my purchases.
Blessed relief to hear the wonderful R.L. Burnside after the waste of human flesh that is Jim Morrison.
Great song, excellent album, and it sounds even better on phonograph What a segue, though. Going from LA Woman to this one makes for quite the rush..
AlienRelic wrote:
I think it's a shame that so many of these old Blues musicians contributed so VERY much to music (not just inspiration and style, but a lot of material that was copied with no credit at all) and got so VERY little in return.
Yes, but therefore its contributed to stocks and hedgefonds after having fired the employees... perfect world, isnt it ??
Mugro wrote:
I was reading about R.L. yesterday as part of the coverage of his death. This guy was a bluesman in the old school sense. He had a HARD life. Rest in peace, R.L.
I think it's a shame that so many of these old Blues musicians contributed so VERY much to music (not just inspiration and style, but a lot of material that was copied with no credit at all) and got so VERY little in return.
Beware the boogie! Whiplash to the bottle-neck. Quite nearly perfect. Hootin' and hollerin' all the way, and that's bad, indeed it is. Baddest.
This rules! Good Good stuff
He's bad, you know.
FCUK!! I LOVE RADIO PARADISE
Cool blues. Shame that he is gone.
Blues... this one's a little bit too much, for me.
Thanks Lester....much better!
Reiver wrote:
Sounds just as good on April 21st! ;) 8:46 pm - R. L. Burnside - Old Black Mattie 8:42 pm - Muddy Waters - I'm Your Hoochie Cooch... 8:35 pm - Doors - L.A. Woman
Little different this time around: 12:33 pm - R.L. Burnside - Old Black Mattie 12:29 pm - Tom Russell - Out In California 12:21 pm - The Doors - L.A. Woman
Don't like the condition of the cover photo, so . . .
passsion8 wrote:
Better follow this one up with Black Betty by Ram Jam
Surely you mean Ledbelly, don't you?
Gregorama wrote:
In the groove and funky as can be!
Word. And I never say that.
"It's Bad, you know" RIP RL. You are missed.
CBJr wrote:
What a great artist. Sad to see him go.
Fortunately for us he left behind these outstanding little guitar licks.
What a great artist. Sad to see him go.
I was reading about R.L. yesterday as part of the coverage of his death. This guy was a bluesman in the old school sense. He had a HARD life. Rest in peace, R.L.
R.I.P. you ol' dog. We have but a few short years before the last of the pioneers moves on. A sad reality that.....
Awwww...Hell yeah! \\:D/
Sobient wrote:
very good. But Bill, update your playlist. They seem to repeat themselves every second month or so. Deja VÌ
You are actually bitching about hearing a song six times a year? I'm speechless. You need an intricate whipping with fresh cut willow, cayenne pepper and rock salt.
Mugro wrote:
Boy, aren't you spoiled! If you really want to hear repeat playlists, go listen to commercial radio when you can hear the same Franz Ferdinand song at the same time every morning!! Repeating a playlist from last month is hardly a sin, and the only way that any of us would know this is by this comment forum.
hey dont do that i've just tuned in