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"GOOD WOMAN BAD"
Written by Steve Bassett, Randy McCormick, Larry Bryron
Produced by Muscle Shoals Sound Publishing/Mystic Soul Bubbas Publishing/Brook Ola Music (BMI)

A good blues song rarely stays confined to one artist's album. Such is the cases with "Good Woman Bad," penned by Steve Bassett, Randy McCormick, and Larry Byron. Rick Moore, who first heard the song on an album by Malaco recording artist Latimore, says he immediately fell in love with its sultry groove. When he found out his producer, Jimmy Nalls, was also a fan of the song, it seemed natural to include it as one of three outside tunes on "Slow Burnin' Fire," his current album on his own Mr. Lucky Records.

      "One of the guys that wrote it is a guy from Virginia named Steve Bassett," Rick Moore says of "Good Woman Bad." "Jimmy knew Steve. So when we showed up at the studio with a list of songs to record, out of all the songs in the whole world, he and I showed up with the same song - 'Good Woman Bad.' We said, 'There's something cosmic about that.' So we rearranged it and did it our way with the harmonica and horns... Jimmy is such a great player and a great producer. He has that idea in his mind of where [a song] needs to go and what it needs to be when it gets there."
      What appealed to Moore about the song when he first heard it? "It was so sultry and had sexual overtones to it," he says. "The lines 'I wake up sweating in the middle of the night.' Those lines just hung with me. Then the second verse, where he says, 'I called the doctor, and I heard his reply.' I was thinking, 'Man, this is so cool!"
      "It was so away from my normal thing. I tend not to write simple stuff, because I keep thinking I'm going to write something too simple, when actually simple is best. Less is more."