Music CD - R.L. Burnside: A Bothered Mind

	Music CD: A Bothered Mind Artist: R.L. Burnside List Price: $16.98 Our Price: $5.98 Your Save: $ 11.00 ( 65% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Fat Possum [Old]
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Tracks: 1. Detroit Boogie Part 1 2. See What My Buddy Done 3. Shake 'Em Down 4. Goin' Down South 5. My Name Is Robert Too 6. Someday Baby 7. Go To Jail 8. Bird Without A Feather 9. Glory Be 10. Goin' Away Baby 11. Rollin' And Tumblin' 12. Stole My Check 13. Detroit Boogie Part 2
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0767981101323 Label: Fat Possum [Old] Manufacturer: Fat Possum [Old] Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Fat Possum [Old] Release Date: 2004-08-17 Studio: Fat Possum [Old]
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: The emperor is naked Comment: Reading all the gushing positive reviews, I'm sitting here scratching my head, wondering whether they're perhaps listening to a different CD than what I have. When I first put on this album, it sounded fairly exciting. With the beefy blues riffs and funky beats, I thought I was in for a good time. But the truth is, once you hear the first ten seconds of any track, you've heard it all. This isn't minimalism, it's just simplicity. There's little variety, no depth, and when you hear the initial phrase of any given track repeat for the nth time, you can't help but wonder - what's the point? I have to give credit to Lyrics Born though - the two tracks that he raps on are hands down the best, though even they follow the rinse/repeat formula. It's too bad that his flows couldn't save the entire album. Two stars for the two LB tracks. Customer Rating: Summary: The Okee Dokee... Comment: ...as my mom would say when I ripped myself off. That's what I went for when I bought this. Too bad that bad music, bad handlers, and commercialization got a hold of a legend and produce this disasterpiece. Customer Rating: Summary: The Future of The Blues! Comment: I Believe this last recording of the Great R. L. Burnside points to the future of Blues Recordings! As the Younger generation begins to pickup on the sounds and the feeling of the old country blues,they are beginning to infuse a Hip Hop feel to the music;you can clearly hear in this recording AND IT WORKS! Showing that the old delta blues of the 1950's and the Hip hop of 2000's has a lot of similarities.With people like Kid Rock guest starrin and other rappers, the future of Pop music will still have the blues! Customer Rating: Summary: Is there anything better? Comment: I can only hope to see R.L. live in concert one day. This is one of the best Blues albums (or any type for that matter) to grace a CD. Inventive, unusual, hip, funky and smooth all rolled into one. Two words: "Buy It!" Customer Rating: Summary: Excellence Comment: This is the best CD I have heard in a long time. Even some bums on the street heard me listening to it in my car and just had to ask what it was. R.L Burnside and Lyrics Born are a unique and fabulous collaboration. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: 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