Bad Temper Joe presents his new album "Ain't Worth a Damn", a collection of original and traditional blues pieces, recorded during an intimate concert at the songwriters' venue Café de Loge in Ghent, as part of Joe's Belgium tour in November 2017.
With nine songs, eight original compositions, and a homage to Willie Dixon's "Spoonful," the album embarks on a journey through a musical landscape rooted in the remote swamps and dewy meadows of the Southern states. Ballads of love and loss, strokes of fate, destruction, alchemy, and dark magic follow. Cheers and shouts of joy are rare, as bones are heavy from the journey, mouths are filled with the dust of the Teutoburg Forest, and clothes are still wet from the Westphalian rain. Bad Temper Joe tells his story in the tradition of the old blues singers from the Mississippi Delta, with the power of one man and his guitar.
“Ain't Worth a Damn” marks Joe's seventh long player since the release of his debut album “Sometimes A Sinner” in 2014. Produced by Fernant Zeste and Jakob Eismann, Bad Temper Joe, after his excursion with an electric band on the 2017 album “Bad Temper Joe And His Band”, presents himself this time again as we know him: in his purest and most authentic form – acoustic, alone and “live in concert”.
1. Farmer's Daughter
2. Most Things Haven't Worked Out Yet
3. If Tears Were Diamonds
4. Nighthawk Woman Blues #9
5. Delilah
6. Man For The Road
7. Honey On My Biscuit
8. Spoonful
9. I Bid You Goodnight, Sweet Marie
