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Nothin' in Ramblin' - 2024 Remasters





         

Mick writes:

Six more tracks from my 2020 album 'Relentless Boogie' freshly remastered in 2024. The whole remastered album will be released before the end of the year.

Nothin' in Ramblin'

Lizzie Douglas (Memphis Minnie) wrote and recorded this classic. It was recently recorded by an all star line-up including Bonnie Raitt and Keb Mo, which prompted me to go back and listen to my own effort. Their's is beautifully played and recorded, of course, but I actually prefer mine in a way, as I've stuck to Lizzie's melody while updating the lyrics, and with a little updated mastering it scrubbed up pretty well.

Hi Heel Sneakers

Robert Winterbotham (Tommy Tucker)'s R&B classic. I like this - it thunders along - takes no prisoners. And I love that lyric - 'got my Old Crow licor - got my paycheck in my hand'.

Little By Little

Probably my favourite track from the whole album - Mel London's blues standard recorded by Junior Wells and many others. Stomps along.

Black Crow Fly

An MC song dedicated to the huge crow (s) that like to think they own our garden. Slide solos on my old Rosetti with the De Armond pickup - has an amazing tone - I should use it more.

Diamond Ring

Yes, it's 'Good Morning LIttle Schoolgirl' but I didn't want to sing the pervy sounding lyric, so took it back to as close as I could to the John Lee Williamson original. Kind of a sad lyric somehow..'I was messed up anyhow'.

Who Do you Love

And Bo's classic.. why not. Once again the Rosetti is rocking out on the slide.

I think the remasters were worth doing .. more news on the whole album to follow.

Photo by the late Hans Ruefli from the Baden Blues Festival, Switzerland, 2006.



























































Mick Clarke - Nothin' in Ramblin' - 2024 Remasters I was born in 1950 one sunny day
And everywhere I been, the peoples all say
Ain't nothing in rambling either running around
yeah better get married, mmm, and settle down

I soon left home, see what I could see
The peoples all begging, "Come and stay with me"
'Cause ain't nothing in rambling, either running around
yeah find a good woman, mmm, and settle down

I was walking through the alley with my hand in my coat
Police hollered out, thought it was something I stole
There ain't nothing in rambling, ain't nothing in running around
Well, I believe I'll marry, o Lord, and settle down

The peoples on the highway is walking and crying
Some is starving, some is dying
There ain't nothing in rambling, nothin' in running around
yeah better get married, o Lord, and settle down

Put on your red dress, baby
Ya know we're goin' out tonight
Put on your red dress, baby
yeah we're goin' out tonight
And bring some boxin' gloves
In case some fool might wanna fight

Put on your high heel sneakers
Wear your wig-hat on your head
Put on your high heel sneakers
Wear your wig-hat on your head
I'm pretty sure now baby
pretty sure you're gonna knock 'em dead

I got my Old Crow liquor
And my paycheck in my hand
I got my Old Crow liquor
I got my paycheck in my hand
you know that regular whiskey
Cost much more than I can stand

Put on your high heel sneakers
Wear your wig-hat on your head
Put on your high heel sneakers
Wear your wig-hat on your head
I'm pretty sure now baby
pretty sure you're gonna knock 'em dead

What you doing, baby, you know it ain't right
I wonder what you doing that it takes all night
Little by little, I'm losing you, I can see
Bit by bit, your love is drifting away from me

You stay out all night till the break of day
you stop up your ears to everything I say
Little by little, I'm losing you, I can see
bit by bit, your love is drifting away from me

Well you turn away baby when I wanna make love with you
I guess I don't thrill you like I used to do
Little by little, I'm losing you, I can see
Bit by bit, your love is drifting away from me

I tried to tail you last night baby in my car
scared that I would see what I was looking for
Little by little, I'm losing you, I can see
Bit by bit, your love is drifting away from me

Well, Can't stand the weather
Nothin' movin' in this heat
Mmm, Can't stand the weather
Nothin' movin' in this heat
Til the Black Crow Fly
Black Crow Fly
The Black Crow Fly and the weather's gonna change
Black Crow Fly and the weather's gonna change

Can't do nothin'
Sittin' here in the shade
Can't do nothin'
Sittin' here in the shade
Til the Black Crow Fly
Black Crow Fly
The Black Crow Fly and the weather's gonna change
The Black Crow Fly and the weather's gonna change
The Black Crow Fly and the weather's gonna change
The Black Crow Fly mmm..

Yeah bring on the water
Saturate this barren land
Yeah bring on the water
Saturate this barren land
The Black Crow Fly and the weather's gonna change
The Black Crow Fly and the weather's gonna change
The Black Crow Fly and the weather's gonna change
The Black Crow Fly and the weather's gonna change

The Black Crow Fly
The Black Crow Fly
The Black Crow Fly and the weather's gonna change
The Black Crow Fly and the weather's gonna change
The Black Crow Fly and the weather's gonna change
The Black Crow Fly and the weather's gonna change

Good morning baby
Gonna buy you a Diamond Ring
If you won't give me no lovin'
Ain't gonna buy you a doggone thing
I don't do no hollerin'
'Bout what I'm gonna do
But I never wanna hurt your feelings
Or get mad with you
Good morning baby
mmm
Can I stay home with you

When I woke up this morning
Lord I couldn't make no sense
Looking to find some reason
Yeah something in my defence
Well I didn't have no blues baby
But I'm doin' what I can for now
Yeah it don't make no difference
I was messed up any how
Good morning baby
Can I stay home with you
mmm

Yeah I'm gonna buy me an airplane
Gonna fly all over this land
if I don't find the woman I'm lovin'
Ain't gonna let my airplane down
I say I don't do no hollerin'
'Bout what I'm gonna do
But I never wanna hurt your feelings
Or get mad with you
Good morning baby
mmm

Good morning baby
Can I stay home with you

I walk 47 miles of barbed wire
I use a cobra-snake for a necktie
I got a brand new house on the roadside
Made from rattlesnake hide
I got a brand new chimney made on top
Made of a human skull
Now come on take a little walk with me, Arlene
And tell me, who do you love?
Who do you love?

Tombstone hand and a graveyard mind
3 score & ten and I don't mind dying
Who do you love?

I rode a lion to town, use a rattlesnake whip
Take it easy now don't give me no lip
Who do you love?

Night was dark, but the sky was blue
Down the alley, the ice-wagon flew
Heard a bump, and somebody screamed
You should have heard just what I seen
Who do you love?

Arlene took me by my hand
And she said ooo you know I understand
Who do you love?