Written by McKinley Morganfield 

Rollin Stone was one of his first electric compositions, a natural continuation to Catfish Blues, by Robert Petaway. 

I play the song with an oversaturated acoustic guitar to add punch to the monotonal, trance-like rhythm. Recorded in one take, no overdubs, using a Martin D100. 

Recorded in The Hole Studios, London. May 2011

Well i wish 
i was a catfish 
swimmin in a oh, deep, blue sea 
I would have all you good lookin women, 
fishin, fishin after me 
Sure 'nough, a-after me 
Sure 'nough, a-after me 
Oh 'nough, oh 'nough, sure 'nough 

I went to my baby's house, 
and I sit down oh, on her steps. 
She said, "Now, come on in now, Muddy 
You know, my husband just now left 
Sure 'nough, he just now left 
Sure 'nough, he just now left" 
Sure 'nough, oh well, oh well 

Well, my mother told my father, 
just before hmmm, I was born, 
"I got a boy child's comin, 
He's gonna be, he's gonna be a rollin stone, 
Sure 'nough, he's a rollin stone 
Sure 'nough, he's a rollin stone" 
Oh well he's a, oh well he's a, oh well he's a 

Well, I feel, yes I feel, 
feel that I could lay down oh, time ain't long 
I'm gonna catch the first thing smokin, 
back, back down the road I'm goin 
Back down the road I'm goin 
Back down the road I'm goin 
Sure 'nough back, sure 'nough back

from Bad Reputation (Valencia​/​London 2013), released December 24, 2013 

Mateo "Ramblin´Matt" Garcia - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Footstomping



Rollin Stone

RAMBLIN' MATT was born in 1966 in Valencia, Spain and he has been involved in bands and performing since the early eighties. Right now is one half of the upcoming band based in Dénia (Alicante) Sara Gee & Ramblin Matt, with three albums since 2013 along her partner in life Sara Gee. Matt is a composer, arranger, guitar and slide player and singer and his first bands were rockabilly outfits in a time when only few dared to play these type of music in Spain, with bands like The Dalton Brothers and Ruzafa's Incorregibles. He formed Blackmailers with soul brother and gifted guitar player Silver Borras in 1998 after returning of living in the US for five years (Chicago, LA, Austin). Between 2006 and 2013 he has been a performing musician in London with his Vintage Rockabilly trio Los Jailbreakers, as a solitary act or with The Ramblin Matt Trio. He returned to Spain in mid 2013 when he meet Sara in a gig in Valencia and decided to stay for good after a tenure of over nearly 20 years away from his land of origin.

Matt writes his own material and also plays bold and faithful to the original arrangements of country & delta blues classics from the likes of Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Skip James, Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Rev. Gary Davis, and Mississippi Fred McDowell among others featuring most of the times only lead vocals and guitar, played with or without slide.