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Detroit Boogie Pt. 1 |
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See What My Body Done |
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Shake 'em On Down |
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Goin' Down South (feat. Lyrics Born) |
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My Name Is Robert Too (feat. Kid Rock) |
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Someday Baby (feat. Lyrics Born) |
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Go To Jail |
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Bird Without A Feather |
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Glory Be |
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Goin' Away Baby |
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Rollin' And Tumblin' |
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Stole My Check |
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Detroit Boogie Pt. 2 |
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Despite the radical recasting of his material, it sounds like Burnside all the way, and is the better of his two hip-hop blues albums.
get some low-down funk bass, evocative blues licks, robert's down and dirty vocals, a rock and roll tone, and mix well, and you got something you can really get down with. most of this album is great for dancing, walking, working, whatever. it's got groove. it's got thump. it's got nasty. tracks 2-7 and 9-12 get four stars from me.
This collection is an assemblage of Burnside's work run through a studio mixer and edited with vocals from other artists. At times, its hodgepodge nature can be off-putting. But if you let the music sink in, it's all genuine RL. It's good-time-house music. Think of a smoky sweaty juke joint at about 2 AM full of tired drunk people needing to be pumped up by the energy of the band. That's what RL was about. The album spans almost all of RLs career - there are solo acoustic numbers and electronic looped hip-hop collaborations. Even if RL himself did not actively participate in this album, it is still very much his creation.
RL is a legend and I like that he was able to experiment alittle and stretch the blues sound some more.Jerry Garcia was taught to take bluegrass and do his own thing with it,it worked!RL has done the same thing and it works here too.
One day at a restaurant my friend and I where listening to some very unfamiliar beautiful music... We asked the waitress who it was: 'earl' burnside is what we heard so it took us a long time to track this guy down and we've never regretted it. Some of my fav tracks by RL burnside are on this CD, however there is some not so good one so I had trouble choosing between a 5 and a 4.
RL is one of those artists that folks love or have never heard of. This contribution is in the middle, literally and figuratively. It is a melding of his early stylings with modern influences, even Kid Rock and Hip Hop light. Some works, some does not. Uneveness drops it to 3-1/2, but there is no half, so it is a 4 here. I am an RL fan, so 3 is bit harsh. It is better than "just OK."
File Under: From raw, gutbucket blues to soul, rock and pop with a similar unspoiled spirit Flagship Acts: R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Solomon Burke, the Black Keys, Andrew Bird, Band of Horses, Dinosaur Jr., Wavves, the Walkmen, Smith Westerns, Yuck, Tennis Based In: Oxford, Mississippi Like the Delta bluesmen whose records he started Fat Possum to release, Matthew Johnson is part of a dying breed. Rock owes much of its early legacy to eccentric, mostly European-descended label owners… more »
