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
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
Free Music Notes for First Recordings
Free Music Review: The best RL recording.
Hit: 5 Stars
Oddly enough I stumbled across RL back in the 90's while I was working on some stuff on the bench and MTV2 was on the TV in the background believe it or not playing music videos. I wasn't paying much attention to what was on then all of a sudden this song catches my attention. I turned around to watch the video and catch the song name and artist. I believe it was Let My Baby Ride from the Come on In album. Well within a few days I found the Come on In cd and I have been hooked on RL ever since.
I like pretty well anything from RL but the First Recordings is my favorite by far. I really wish I would have made an effort to go watch RL play live. It is sad that RL and many others didn't become popular or even known until late in life because there aren't making them like these guys anymore.
If you like real blues and don't have this CD don't give it a second thought pick it up and wear it out.
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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