Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Willie Mabon 'I'm Mad'

'And you have the nerve to try to be glad!' Recorded in Germany in 1980 with a dream team lineup including Odie Payne (drums), Hubert Sumlin and Eddie Taylor. Mabon is a great songwriter and singer from the Chess stable and should be better known. Enjoy damn you! You know I added this to my favourites before I'd even seen it that's how confident I was that this would be good - Willie Mabon is the man who wrote the lines 'I bought me a blade - one I could afford - too long to be a knife and too short to be a sword' or 'every day when I shave in my housecoat - two men have to hold me so I don't cut my throat' what a man.