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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 23-SEP-1997
Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 23-SEP-1997
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is a good CD but it weights in at only 41 minutes which is inexcusably short for a "live" CD; I mean, this guy probably jammed all night! And, though it was recorded live at Junior Kimbrough's Juke Joint, it was subsequently cleaned up at Fat Possum Studios which is why it doesn't have much of a "live" feel--there's hardly any audience or background noise which can add to the excitment of the recording.
A much better, and longer (53 minutes), Burnside CD is "Burnside On Burnside", which was also recorded live but has all of the electricity of a live peformance. If you can afford only one Burnside CD then "Burnside On Burnside" is the one to get.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
In his documentary "Deep Blues," eccentric producer Robert Palmer introduced us to a brand of blues that comes not from the Delta, but from the hill country region of northwest Mississippi. While it bears a vague resemblance to its lowlands cousin, Hill Country Blues is a whole 'nother critter altogether. It is, as Palmer describes in the liner notes of this CD, a "slashing, droning trance-blues," a "churning, jamming one-chord exercise in stamina and mass-hypnosis."
Too many recordings these days suffer from excessive post-production, processed until they've been homogenized, sterilized, or just plain castrated, but this ain't slicked-up big city blues, Bubba. Uh Uh. Robert Palmer is a blues bloodhound; he knows where the Real Blues live, and on this CD records them in their element as they happen. The results are, in a word, profound.
Burnside plays a wicked, ratty slide over the top of a hypnotic backbeat laid down by backup guitarist Kenny Brown, bassist Dwayne Burnside and drummer Calvin Jackson. Recorded live at a jukejoint owned by fellow bluesman Junior Kimbrough, "Too Bad Jim" is raw, nasty & compelling, coming through with all the fevered urgency of a jukejoint jam session.
".44 Pistol" is a raucous and swaggering counterstroke to the haunting cover of Lightnin' Hopkins "Death Bell Blues" which follows. Two other Hopkins tunes, "Short Haired Woman" and "Miss Glory B." get the Burnside treatment. "Fireman Ring The Bell" seems to borrow much from Bill Broonzy's "Rollin' & Tumblin'."
This is Deep Blues as it should be heard, bare and honest without any fancy production tricks to spoil it. Just buy it.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Old style country blues cranked up to hard-rock volumes. No generic Chicago shuffle here, instead a truly strange and hypnotic Fred McDowell meets John Lee Hooker boogie. Brilliantly played and sung. Extremely raw and well produced blues. If you crank up this album it sounds like the band is in the room with you, making it up as they go along.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
not on my A list
I like blues and listen to the greats such as Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. This recording is not on a par with these artists better work. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Steve Rogers
R.L. SHAKES 'EM ON DOWN!
r. l. burnside is one of the kings of the "north mississippi hill country" blues. "hill country" blues is a unique style of blues that's more of a long, repetative, one key,... Read more
Published on December 18, 2008 by G. J. Cook
Cooks like Mississippi mulligan stew
I first heard this recording at a CD listening station in a record store. I stood there for two hours, playing it three times in a row, spellbound. Read more
Published on November 21, 2008 by Ragamuffin Jim
Quite Possibly The Best Blues Album of The 90s
R.L. Burnside wasn't discovered until late in life. How could this talent have been hidden so long? This is just great, gritty, no frills, blues. Almost hypnotic at times (ie. Read more
Published on June 5, 2008 by N_Joy
RL Burnside-American Treasure
Most likely this is RL at the top of his craft. He was always great, but on TooBadJim he was inspired, not that he didn't always have such moments, he was otherworldly, celestial. Read more
Published on August 24, 2007 by Mark K. Hatfield
In Short, The Blues
This is unshaven, dusty, floor-board blues, something to drink a beer to under a spidery, greasy, yellowed light bulb. R. L. Read more
Published on February 5, 2007 by Mark Eremite
6 Stars
Hard to believe this record came out over 10 years ago and now both the producer and the artist are dead. RIP, RL! You were the root, the blues walking and talking like a man. Read more
Published on November 11, 2005 by Arch Stanton
Hypnotic - the Best
"Too Bad Jim" is old-fashioned. The rhythm is all - bulldozing everything in its inexorable drive to put you in a trance. And not some hippie, peace&love-type trance either. Read more
Published on July 25, 2003 by Nels Lindberg
Pounding & Shaking All Over
If you think the blues is just depressing music, pick this disc up, pop it in your stereo and crank it. RL ROCKS!! This album is just one huge groove after another. Read more
Published on July 10, 2001 by tin2x
Easily R.L.'s best
"Too Bad Jim" absolutely pummels "Mr. Wizard" and any other R.L. Burnside discs that feature strange white-boy rockers John Spencer Blues Explosion (there's... Read more
Published on June 7, 2000 by Tim Weber
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