Too Bad Jims

The Too Bad Jims got their name from the seminal Fat Possum album "Too Bad Jim" by the hugely influential blues musician RL Burnside. 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.

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

Their debut album is 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 single from this album "Miss Maybelle", released in September 2024, garnered airplay on both sides of the pond and received very positive feedback in anticipation of this debut album.