Just Do Me Right

Asie Payton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 12, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fat Possum Records
• ASIN: B000060P7B
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #341,412 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Back to the Bridge

2. Do Me Right

3. 1000 Years

4. I Got a Friend

5. Need My Help

6. Livin' in So Much Pain

7. You Got Me Doin' Things

8. Why'd You Do It

9. Nobody But You

10. Lose My Happy Home

11. You Don't Want Me

12. Watch Yourself

13. Asie's Story

14. Back to the Bridge (2002)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't believe the haters!, July 25, 2002

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M William Petersen (Honduras, Central America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Just Do Me Right (Audio CD)

This is one of my favorite CDs in my collection, and it upsets me to see people put it down.
First off, the recording quality is fine. (Since when did recording quality really matter... do scratches on original Robert Johnson make the music terrible? I think it adds to it.) It's just not the case with this album. The recording quality is pretty good; not perfect, but unless you're listening through a generic ghetto blaster in a tin shack, it'll sound great. Turn it up.
Second, the folks at Fat Possum are doing what needs to be done to keep blues alive, and I don't think that Asie is spinning in his grave because they released his excellent music. Some of the songs are raw and uncut Delta-style stuff, others are raging boom-sessions ("Need My Help" makes Muddy Waters look impotent.) It hits the whole range. Sometimes it's for sipping on the stoop, sometimes it's for burning the juke down.
"Oh, it was so NICE when it sounded like that good-old acoustic porch blues, but this is too much for my delicate sensabilities. I'm going to go buy one of the white-washed BB King albums and some Leon Redbone...." Give me a freaking break.
If you can't handle the grit, this album ain't for you. If you want a variety of great original blues, I guarantee this album won't disappoint. As a blues DJ, I've gotten requests for tracks off this more often than most albums I spin. That's for a reason.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Here's The Issue..., February 20, 2006

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Jasper (New England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Just Do Me Right (Audio CD)

These started as straight-up Asie Payton recordings. They were rough and tough. Some remain in that form, but others have been tampered with. Though some folks enjoy the results of the tampering, it certainly does not make weakhearts out of those who wanted the pure, ORIGINAL music, AS ASIE PAYTON RECORDED IT. This stuff was raw and real. What Fat Possum did, regardless of whether or not one enjoys it, was to add instrumentation to make the originals more pallatable to modern ears. Now, there is nothing wrong with remixing and adding to the tunes, as long as we can also hear ALL of Asie Payton's rare original recodings as HE HIMSELF performed them. If Fat Possum wants to remix and create new tracks out of the real raw recordings, they should make a longer disc that has ALL of the original straight-up recordings, AS WELL AS the recordings that they've tinkered with. They could also have a double disc set, or two seperate single discs, if need be; one featuring the original untainted recordings, and one the funky remixes/overdubbed stuff.

This whole controversy does not have to exist, and everyone could be made happy with great ease. So don't become upset with other consumers because they want either the pure originals or altered versions, be mad at Fat Possum, because it should be a non-issue.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have cd, May 8, 2002

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joe (Memphis, tn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Just Do Me Right (Audio CD)

This cd is my favorite of all Fat Possum releases. It is down and dirty blues with down and dirty remixes. I love the mixture of Asie Payton's original recordings juxtaposed against the remixed versions. Fat Possum's style of blues has many detractors, but so did Bob Dylan's electric music or Howling Wolf's first electric album. The Blues is a continually evolving life form. It will change and progress whether you want it to or not.