R.L. Burnside - A Bothered Mind
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Artist: R.L. BurnsideEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-08-17
Music Label: Fat Possum Records
Soundtracks:
- Detroit Boogie Part 1
- See What My Buddy Done
- Shake 'Em Down
- Goin' Down South
- My Name Is Robert Too
- Someday Baby
- Go To Jail
- Bird Without A Feather
- Glory Be
- Goin' Away Baby
- Rollin' And Tumblin'
- Stole My Check
- Detroit Boogie Part 2
Music reviews of A Bothered Mind
Music Review: Burnside cuts new ground again.
Rating: 3 Stars
August 12, 2004
Artist: R. L. Burnside
Title: A Bothered Mind
Rating: Niche
This is an exceptionally interesting album. Harkening from the great South, Burnside once again blends his Mississippi delta blues with modern Electronica to create a special music that will make most Blues purists will cringe before capturing their imaginations. This experimental blend is not new: Moby has tried it in the past. Burnside's adventurous blood is also apparent on his previous album `Ass Pocket of Whisky' recorded with Indie Rocker's Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion.
This is the best example to date of this effort to blend the old with the new. At this point I need to flop in the line, `Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.' In this case this bromide applies totally!
Using Burnside's John Lee Hooker style loose barchord style guitar playing over a traditional blues bass & drum line, this album jumps & jives with loops, repetitive phrases, and well placed electronic whirls and twirls to create a heady blues album that is immediately familiar and immediately strange. This is probably the hippest thing I've heard all year. However, if there were ever a situation where something is too cool for the room... this could be it!
Blossoming Detroit superstar Kid Rock `throws down' on the track, My Name is Robert Too' which relies heavily on vocal loops ala' early 80's King Crimson. (Seems you can't listen to an album these days without Kid `Robert' Rock guesting on it!) The artist Born is also featured on two tracks on the album; Goin' Down South, and Someday Baby.
The packaging on the album is a multi-fold album jacket with brightened colors of the artis on a delta gravel road: a depiction of the music inside... kinda old, kinda new, definitely borrowing a modern sound to lay over some very good blues. This album is exceptionally interesting but will probably not appeal to everyone.
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All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.John Lennon once claimed that "the blues is a chair?the first chair," explaining the music's primacy in the grand scheme of things. That notion is richly underscored on this follow-up to late-blossoming North Mississippi bluesman R.L. Burnside's initial 1998 remix collection. While Kid Rock's rollicking duet cum roadhouse free-for-all on "My Name is Robert Too" further grounds his rootsy reinvention, Bay Area hip-hopper Lyrics Born lays a lugubrious guitar groove on "Goin' Down South" and kicks up "Someday Baby" with a word-tripping nod to Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues." But those flashy guest turns shouldn't distract from the real attraction here: Burnside's own earthy, rhythmically propulsive acoustic (the moody "Bird Without a Feather" source recording dates to 1968) and electric performances, as deftly refocused and punched up by producers Mike E. Clark and Tino Gross. Listeners familiar with Burnside's re-worked contributions to the hit Sopranos soundtrack and its follow-up will find this collection a rewarding shotgun wedding of something borrowed and something new--a smart, modern take on the blues. --Jerry McCulley
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