R.L. Burnside - First Recordings
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Artist: R.L. BurnsideEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-06-10
Music Label: Fat Possum
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
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Free Music Review: It's a Freakin 10...
Hit: 5 Stars
I hunt for music, and the hunt leads down paths that dead-end, aren't my thing, or whatever, but sometimes I get lucky. I discovered R.L. by chance after following links from a blues guitar instruction book page. Of all the R.L. stuff, this seemed the most basic and raw, and I bought it. Who knew I'd just discovered my favorite blues album ever!
This was recorded in R.L.'s living room one night after another explorer was lead down the Mississippi dirt road to the "best bluesman around". The recording has a raw quality but the sound is very good. But the music itself is spectacular. This is the real thing, no doubt about it. No Chicago blues here, this is raw and droning and hypnotic and tuneful. The guitar work is great, and his voice has depth and expression, and there is no heavy production; you are there in the dark muggy Mississippi night, R.L.'s foot thumping on the floorboards.
This discovery will be tough to top, and it's been in my top 5 CD playlist for months.
First Recordings Poster
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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