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Slow Burn

by Mamie Minch

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1.
I’m not a bad woman, I’m just deep in my ways I’m not a bad woman, I’m just deep in my ways You won’t find out my footsteps if you search out all your loving days My leg starts out a nickel, ends one dollar seventy-five If you want some of my greens, you got to eat them live, I’m not a bad woman, I’m just deep in my ways You won’t find out my footsteps if you search out all your loving days Now I’m a whole lotta woman, you know roughnecks is my style Now I’m a whole lotta woman, you know roughnecks is my style You open up my door now daddy, be prepared for to stay a little while Now butter melts on my corn, molasses melts on my peas and what I’m cooking in my pot is gone bring you to your knees Now I’m not a bad woman, I’m just deep in my ways You won’t find out my footsteps if you search out all your loving days Man, you won’t find out my footsteps if you search out all your loving days
2.
I have lost my one true lover I’m afraid it’s for all time He prefers a silent mistress In his fortified wine In his fortified wine Once I had diamonds for my teardrops Once I had rubies for my breast But he did freely spend my treasure On that lady he loves best On that lady he loves best The blackest crow that ever floated He would surely turn to white If ever I’d forget my lover Bright day would turn to night Bright day would turn to night I’ve had my fill, but still I’m empty Next to him, I cannot lay my head So I’ll leave him sleep, Oh let him diem there In his own drunken bed In his own drunken bed
3.
Oh I could ride the IRT to the far end of the line And rest inside your arms again with your heartbeat next to mine But no more is love for me, my dear, no more is love for me I have been disenchanted and I believe I’ll let love be Oh the sweetest kiss that ever there was, and the promises you made Are as the foam upon the sea and the flowers on my grave So no more is love for me, my dear, no more is love for me I have been disenchanted and I believe I’ll let love be Just as every rose must have it’s briar, love is all entwined with pain And in the garden of your heart it will drink your tears like rain So no more is love for me, my dear, no more is love for me I have been disenchanted and I believe I’ll let love be
4.
Big Bad Maddie Not gonna change her clothes Does what she wants Goes where she wants to go (x2) Feel so good Shout and sing Moondog says You got to do your thing Now, I feel so good I wanna shout and sing Moondog says you got to do your Moondog says you got to do your Moondog says you got to do your thing Moondog says you got to do your thing Big Bad Maddie’s Not gonna change her mind Big dick swagger Keeps those boys in line (x2) Don’t need no heater Round my bed The man I got He keeps me cherry red I mean I don’t need no heater I Now around my loving bed the man I love, he keeps me cherry the man I love, he keeps me cherry the man I love, he keeps me cherry red the man I got, you know now, he keeps me cherry red
5.
It was in the wee midnight hour Long about the break of day, oh day, oh day It was in the wee midnight hour Long about the break of day, oh day, oh day When the blues would stream down over you and tear your mind away, away, away Has your mind been rambling Back to the days of long ago, ago, ago? Has your mind been rambling Back to the days of long ago, ago, ago? Back to the one you used to love and you don’t see then any more, no more, no more Oh blues, why do you worry me Why do you stay with me so long, so long, so long? Oh blues, why do you worry me Why do you stay with me so long, so long, so long? You came to me yesterday, and you stayed with me all night long, so long, so long I went down to my praying ground and I Fell down on my knee, my bending knee I went down to my praying ground and I Fell down on my knee, my bending knee I asked the lord above to spare me won’t you send me back my rider please, have mercy on me
6.
True Blue 03:48
They say that white light is made up of all other colors of light and I believe its true it shines on me and what I reflect back Is always deep enduring blue It’s older than any virgin’s vestment Bluer than my pretty baby’s eye It’s deeper than all the lonely ocean It’s never near, it’s always nigh Sometimes I forget I’m Wednesday’s daughter But never for long and never alone I feel like blue, made up of color That’s can’t be seen, it must be known And one little life, one life like mine One life like mine, ordinary and true Can go on forever in this lonely world Can be painted deep, enduring blue
7.
You don’t lift me up, I mean that’s all You don’t lift me up, I mean that’s all Well it must make you feel better When you see your good friend crawl You don’t lift me up, I mean that’s all I know standing on my back might make you tall I know standing on my back might make you tall But a shotgun never shot no one Till you take it down off the wall and you don’t lift me up, I mean that’s all You thought I’d always be there when you called Thought I’d always be there when you called But next time you come knocking leave you standing in the hall You don’t lift me up You don’t lift me up You don’t lift me up, I mean that’s all

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Mamie Minch, a longtime staple of New York City’s acoustic blues scene, pairs up with percussionist Dean Sharenow on the EP Slow Burn, her first album in a decade. On this collection of songs, you’ll find Mamie’s traditional influences stretch out, turn up, get deeper, groovier, funkier. The tracks include an R.L. Burnside piece reworked as a feminist future blues, a woozy folk tribute to Yves Klein Blue, in between some foot stompers a la Jessie Mae Hemphill and a few tender embraces in plain spoken poetry. Listening to Slow Burn is like unpacking a time capsule of American music that’s been stored in Mamie’s 1930’s National steel for decades and filtered with a modern femme sensitivity.

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released August 18, 2020

produced by Dean Sharenow and Mamie Minch
recorded at Reservoir Studios, NYC and Steel Cut Audio, NYC
recorded by Dean Sharenow and James Yost
assisted by Matthew Sullivan
mixed and mastered by Dean Sharenow at Steel Cut Audio
Photography by Tamara Staples
Cover art by Mark Ohe

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Mamie Minch New York, New York

MAMIE MINCH is a longtime staple of New York’s acoustic blues scene. Listening to her sing and play is like unpacking a time capsule of American music that’s been stored in her 1930’s National steel guitar for decades and filtered through a modern femme sensitivity. ... more

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