Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes & The Playboys
OOP Album Heartbroken Man
Rooster Blues label
1990

This studio set gives some idea of the roughhouse pleasure to be found in Barnes's Greenville, Mississippi, Playboy Club on most Friday and Saturday nights. Decidedly unconcerned with structure or niceties, Barnes throttles songs about forlorn romance and wayward libido with clamant singing, an unforgiving electric guitar, and a restless harmonica. His Delta sidemen, too, are all the better for their inartistic bent. Barnes plays basic Chicago-style Blues in the mold of his mentors and that is the CD's basic failing. there is nothing new here. Yes, the playing is quite fine, just no real sparks. The band heard on this recording would be fine for a friday night at a Blues bar, but not really worth getting excited about as a recording band. Barnes' guitar, harmonica and singing are OK, just not the stuff that I'd get terribly worked up over.


  1. How Long This Must Go On       
  2. Don't Cry No More       
  3. Ain't Going To Worry About Tomorrow       
  4. Tell Me What I've Done/My Last Affair       
  5. Heartbroken Man       
  6. Blind Man/I Pity The Fool       
  7. Rocking Daddy       
  8. Tin Pan Alley       
  9. Baby, Scratch My Back       
10. Louise Louise Blues       
11. No Place To Go

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