R.L. Burnside - Burnside on Burnside
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Artist: R.L. BurnsideBrand: BURNSIDE,R.L.
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2001-10-23
Music Label: Fat Possum Records
Soundtracks:
- Shake 'Em On Down
- Skinny Woman
- Miss Maybelle
- Rollin' & Tumblin'
- Long Haired Doney
- Walkin' Blues
- He Ain't Your Daddy
- Bad Luck And Trouble
- Jumper On The Line
- Goin' Down South
- Alice Mae
- Snake Drive
Description of Burnside on Burnside
R.L. Burnside s first break came in the early 90s when the documentary film based on author Robert Palmer s book Deep Blues featured R.L. as one of its highlights. Subsequently Palmer produced R.L. s Too Bad Jim for the fledgling Fat Possum label. Along with Junior Kimbrough s All Night Long, Too Bad Jim was one of the most important and influential blues albums of the 90s.Too Bad Jim brought R.L. to the attention of post-punk musician Jon Spencer. R.L. toured extensively with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and this led to the collaboration between the two, the result was a Ass Pocket of Whiskey, a teenage party record. Ass Pocket of Whiskey made R.L. an unlikely champion in the indie rock world.
In 1997 R.L. released Mr. Wizard, Fat Possums debut record on their distribution label Epitaph featured R.L. s hardcore touring mates, grandson Cedric Burnside and adopted son Kenny Brown.
In 1998 R.L. released Come On In, which pitted his raw blues against modern electronica, courtesy of producer Tom Rothrock (Beck, Elliot Smith). The album was a critical and commercial success, and one of its tracks, 'It s Bad You Know.' Became a respectable radio hit and was featured in The Sopranos and on its soundtrack.
In the year 2001, R.L. Burnside was still breaking down boundaries, and bringing the blues to where it had never gone before. Listen up.
Mississippi hill country patriarch R.L. Burnside's two previous albums dabbled in remixes and trip-hop experimentation geared to the college-rock market. This is a restorative: pure slide 'n' drone blues caught live in January 2001 at Portland, Oregon's Crystal Ballroom. The 73-year-old is joined by his usual jukehouse band, his drummer and grandson Cedric Burnside and guitarist Kenny Brown, who blow sparks behind Burnside's rich honey-and-molasses voice and chunky six-string affirmations. Every time Burnside hits a note, it's a reminder of both how vital an interpreter of the hypnotic style developed by Fred McDowell he remains and how true electric country blues still sounds in its unvarnished state.
There's an emotional resonance that runs through this music like blood, especially when Burnside plays solo. His all-alone performances of "Walking Blues" and "Bad Luck and Trouble" reveal every nuance of his caw-to-keen singing and the sweet way his slide slices right to the emotional core of a lyric. Burnside's off-color jokes and song-ending punctuations (mostly buoyant "Well, well, wells") also give an inkling of the wild-ass grandpa charisma that makes him so appealing on stage. Burnside has, however, delivered better concerts. At times these tempos seem rushed, which sacrifices some of the subtleties of his vocalizing. But Brown unleashes a rabid slide solo on "Snakedrive" that shoots the tune skyward, and he and Cedric display relentless energy and thrust. All of which proves that, with John Lee Hooker now reclining upstairs, R.L. Burnside is the ruler of this music. --Ted Drozdowski
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