The Heartbroken Man

Roosevelt 'Booba' Barnes & The Playboys

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 20, 1995)
• Original Release Date: 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rooster Blues
• ASIN: B000000DOL
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #84,002 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

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 [*]

Editorial Reviews

From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD

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. -- © Frank John Hadley 1993

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 stars deception......, October 30, 2009

By	Rene Theberge "Quebecer" (Ste-Foy, Québec Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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When I bought this cd I was thinking about something between Frank Frost, Lightnin Slim and Big Jack Johnson. It is but much under each of them

4.0 out of 5 stars Amazon's track credits misleading, December 18, 2008

By	Barb - See all my reviews

Amazon has inserted songwriter names into the track list as if they are co-performers. While it would have been a good trick to have legends like Howlin' Wolf show up from the dead to perform on this disc, it didn't happen.

The musicians are: Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes on vocals, guitar, and harmonica; bass on different tracks provided by James Earl Franklin or Willie Miller; James "T-Model" Ford on guitar - track 4 only; and Terry Taylor on drums.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars blues the way it should be played, July 19, 2007

By	Chocolate Star - See all my reviews

I found Roosevelt "Booba Barnes'" Heartbroken Man to be a must have CD for all old school blues fans. His sound is a mix of Howlin' Wolf, Albert King and James Brown for good measure.

Growing up in rural Mississippi, otherwise known as the home of the Delta Blues, he was familiar with all the other blues artist around at that time but decided to do something a little different! The tracks are funky and fresh with just the right mix of guitar and harmonica.

Anyone who didn't get to see him perform missed out on a treat! Playing the guitar with his teeth was the highlight of the show for me!