R.L. Burnside - First Recordings
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Artist: R.L. BurnsideBrand: BURNSIDE,R.L.
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-06-10
Music Label: Fat Possum Records
Soundtracks:
- Just Like A Bird Without A Feather
- Goin' Down South
- Come On In
- Little Babe
- Rollin' And Tumblin'
- Jumper On The Line
- Skinny Woman
- Poor Black Mattie
- Long Haired Doney
- Peaches
- Walkin' Blues
- Hobo Blues
- My Time Ain't Long
- Sat Down On My Bed And Cried
Music reviews of First Recordings
Music Review: ridiculously good
Rating: 5 Stars
I don't like blues. Love rock, prog rock, sure I love Zepp and Hendrix and all that. But the straight walking blues stuff drives me mad. To me it feel repetitive and there a bunch that's forced or derivative (I know I know).
I searched for a long time for some real authentic blues that 'I' would like, something gritty and haunting, that had the feel, syrup and dirt of what deep Delta blues was in my head. There a BUNCH out there, and much really good stuff. Remember, this was just me and what I was looking for.
Well, BINGO. This CD is the most real, haunting, never get out of your head, just so stupidly cool, I still can't get over it every single time I put it on (which is a LOT). The kicker is, that it is in many ways very repetitive itself, but in a very different way. Where much blues is repeating bars over and over, this is more trance-like, as if it could ACTUALLY manifest some bad southern voodoo mojo that would pull your soul into the depths. Check it out. LOL.
Description of First Recordings
Following up R.L. Burnside's Grammy nominated Burnside on Burnside, this CD goes back to R.L.'s beginning. For the first time on CD, these are the complete George Mitchell recordings from 1968. Digipak. Epitaph/Fat Possum Records. 2003.Today, at age 77, this popular North Mississippi singer-guitarist is a master of dirty juke-joint blues. But Burnside was a farm hand when these late ?60s recordings captured him developing his staples "Goin? Down South," "Jumper On the Line," "Poor Black Mattie," and "Long Haired Doney"--and his playing style--in bare-boned acoustic form. Burnside practically cries over the roiling John Lee Hooker-influenced guitar lines of the heartbroken "Like a Bird Without a Feather," which he?s never again recorded, winning sympathy until he admits that he murdered his lost lover. In "Skinny Woman," covered recently by the North Mississippi Allstars, he offsets the rippling picking style associated with John Hurt by beating his knuckles against his six-string?s body. Burnside?s slide on "Walkin? Blues" favors the low strings until his solo stabs into the high register with keening, measured authority, matching the sweet and dusty tones of his voice, which then possessed a youthful flexibility that wrung all sorts of nuances from these 14 songs. --Ted Drozdowski
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