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| Artist: R.l. Burnside
Label: Fat Possum
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
Buy New: $11.43
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 15560
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 80343
UPC: 457780343214
EAN: 0045778034321
ASIN: B00005QG8K
Release Date: October 23, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Shake 'Em On Down | | • | Skinny Woman | | • | Miss Maybelle | | • | Rollin' & Tumblin' | | • | Long Haired Doney | | • | Walkin' Blues | | • | He Ain't Your Daddy | | • | Bad Luck And Trouble | | • | Jumper On The Line | | • | Goin' Down South | | • | Alice Mae | | • | Snake Drive |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com's Best of 2001
Mississippi hill country patriarch R.L. Burnside's two previous albums dabbled in remixes and trip-hop experimentation geared to the college-rock market. This is a restorative: pure slide 'n' drone blues caught live in January 2001 at Portland, Oregon's Crystal Ballroom. The 73-year-old is joined by his usual jukehouse band, his drummer and grandson Cedric Burnside and guitarist Kenny Brown, who blow sparks behind Burnside's rich honey-and-molasses voice and chunky six-string affirmations. Every time Burnside hits a note, it's a reminder of both how vital an interpreter of the hypnotic style developed by Fred McDowell he remains and how true electric country blues still sounds in its unvarnished state. There's an emotional resonance that runs through this music like blood, especially when Burnside plays solo. His all-alone performances of "Walking Blues" and "Bad Luck and Trouble" reveal every nuance of his caw-to-keen singing and the sweet way his slide slices right to the emotional core of a lyric. Burnside's off-color jokes and song-ending punctuations (mostly buoyant "Well, well, wells") also give an inkling of the wild-ass grandpa charisma that makes him so appealing on stage. Burnside has, however, delivered better concerts. At times these tempos seem rushed, which sacrifices some of the subtleties of his vocalizing. But Brown unleashes a rabid slide solo on "Snakedrive" that shoots the tune skyward, and he and Cedric display relentless energy and thrust. All of which proves that, with John Lee Hooker now reclining upstairs, R.L. Burnside is the ruler of this music. --Ted Drozdowski
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great live album and great slide guitar. May 15, 2008
R. Wooten (Dallas,Tx)
I'm a young guy and just scratching the service on blues legends like R.L. Burnside. This is the first CD of his I've bought and I'm extremely happy that I purchased it.
R.L. has an absolutely perfect blues voice. His guitar playing along with Kenny Brown is incredible. The slide guitar is one of my favorite sounds on earth and they play it to perfection throughout the album.
My favorite songs are Shake Em' on Down, Rollin' and Tumblin', Goin' Down South, Skinny Women (which is covered by a great band named the The Black Keys they call their version "Busted"), and Bad Luck and Trouble. But my very favorite is Walkin' Blues. It's the total package. It's perfect in vocals, lyrics, emotion, slide guitar, and everything in between. I can't get enough of that song.
The only reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is because a couple of songs are repetitious of each other and don't stand out to me.
I would give this album a 4.5 stars but it won't let me.
Just shut up and buy it! January 3, 2007
Bret (Nairne, South Australia)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Powerfull, driving and gets under your skin. Buy it and play it loud.
My favourite blues album in my collection.
Electric. December 31, 2006
Jack Apple (Big Apple)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It don't get no better than this. Burnside's best. I wish I could compare it to something, but ain't nothin' to compare it to.
Love it. December 22, 2006
S. Sra (Yigo Andersen AFB Guam)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Skinny woman though... anyone heard busted by the black keys? Same song... subtly different lyrics. Black keys came out first though... I think.
WOW April 10, 2005
S. McLellan (Kirchhayn USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This cat is good. Mesmerizing beat and tempo, he has the blues in his voice and his soul. A "must buy" for the down home blues lover. This is what it's all about.
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