Too Bad Jim

Produced by Robert Palmer, the album was recorded at Junior Kimbrough's Junior's Place, where the sessions were interrupted by instrument and studio mishaps. Burnside was backed by Calvin Jackson on drums, Dwayne Burnside on bass, and Kenny Brown on guitar. "Short-Haired Woman", written by Lightnin' Hopkins, rejects the predominate image of Black female attractiveness. "When My First Wife Left Me" is a cover of the John Lee Hooker song. ==Critical reception==

The Chicago Tribune said, "The music is driven by rhythmic thrusts rather than chord changes, and the interplay among the stellar musicians is explosive." The New York Times noted that "the northern Mississippi blues tradition is pretty obscure, and it's all about repetition and droning, about the subtle colorations of rhythm that trance music needs to be effective." The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette stated, "A master of the gallows humor and dramatic narrative tradition that runs through African-American cultural expressions like I-70, Burnside embodies the comic and tragic excesses of black music, while critiquing its inability to move beyond the perennially youthful aesthetic that enslaves black radio." The Knoxville News Sentinel concluded that "Burnside learned a lot from Mississippi Fred McDowell, but it sounds like playing tough juke joints provided him with his most important lessons." The Calgary Herald listed Too Bad Jim among the best albums of 1994. ==Track listing==