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R.L. Burnside
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Artist: |
R.L. Burnside |
| Titel: |
"Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down" |
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Lp-CD |
| Release Date: |
23.10.2000 |
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| Vertriebe: |
Epitaph/Fat Possum // Connected |
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R.L. Burnside
- R.L. Burnside represents the ultimate paradox in all of Blues. On one hand, he is the greatest living exponent of Mississippi Blues in its rawest form, but on the other hand, he is the most irreverent, boundary-stretching artist in the genre. His new album Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down showcases both sides of this coin while introducing even more dimensions to his powerful personality.
Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down contains some of R.L.'s best singing ever. At 73 years old his voice has maturity and depth, while his phrasing is detailed and emotional. Much of this album is haunting and ethereal. The title track is an impassioned reading of a gospel gem accompanied only by Kenny Brown's driving guitar. "Hard Time Killing Floor," and "Got Messed Up" mix ambient beats with spooky slide guitars, DJ scratches and R.L.'s mournful moan. "Hard Time Killing Floor" also contains a spoken word section where R.L. talks about tragic times in Chicago in the late '40s. He expands on that rap in more grisly detail on the albums closing track, "R.L.'s Story."
Other highlights include the raw, foot-stomping, Mississippi anthem, "Miss Maybelle," where R.L. shouts over a hard-driving blues 2-step with a twist: the manic scratching of Beck's turntable wizard, DJ Swamp. The scratching creates the same effect that the washboard created in blues bands of the '30s, giving a strange logic to this blasphemy. Speaking of blasphemy, R.L. takes the long forgotten style of "Mandolin Blues" (popularized by Yank Rachell in the'30s) and sets it to an electronic beat on the energetic, "My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble."
R.L. shows his biting sense of humor on a couple of tracks. "Too Many Ups" is a loopy groove featuring an R.L. diatribe "there's too many ups out there. you got to hurry up; you got catch up .cause you want to get paid up." Listen carefully to this one and you'll hear subtle samples of Drum & Fife music. There is also a satire of the "everything goes wrong" blues, "Nothing Man."
The cover of the Aretha Franklin classic, "Chain Of Fools" turns the original on its ear: swampy guitars along with looped beats and swirling scratches. R.L.'s voice is lowdown, gritty and pissed-off. The result is both more modern and more primitive than Aretha's. You will also want to check out R.L.'s original, "See What My Buddy Done" (hard driving Mississippi electric blues) and "Bad Luck City," an updated version of R.L.' s classic tale of heartbreak featuring his rarely-heard sandpaper falsetto cry.
Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down is the accumulation of 73 years of hard-earned experience. R.L. Burnside was born near Oxford, Mississippi in 1926. He moved around the Holly Springs and Independence area making a living doing farm work. By the 1950s he was singing blues and playing guitar, which he learned from older local musicians such as "Mississippi" Fred McDowell and Ranie Burnette. Burnside played solo at juke joints and house parties performing versions of blues hits by Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Elmore James, and Howlin' Wolf, themselves all Mississippi bluesmen. Then during the '50s a restless Burnside spent several years outside of music seeking a better life in Chicago and Memphis. Around 1959 he returned to Mississippi to again work the farms and raise a family, with his wife, Alice. He also got back to playing music at night and on weekends.
R.L. Burnside made his first recordings in 1967 with George Mitchell, and several of these songs were issued on a compilation on Arhoolie. They were powerful country blues, and earned Burnside enough of a reputation to play some festivals and short tours. Burnside's electric guitar was broken at the time, so he recorded on an acoustic. This caused him to be seen as an old-fashioned country blues artist when actually he had been updating and expanding the blues from the time he first began playing. By the early '70s his wife Alice would sing with him on stage, and most of their children also began singing or playing instruments. Soon, R.L.'s sons Joseph and Daniel, along with brother-in-law Calvin Jackson, formed the Sound Machine, which became R.L.'s regular backing band. Burnside and his band would hold crowds of young dancers with their grooves, including a growing number of local white kids.
Throughout the '80s R.L. was a major figure in the Mississippi juke joint scene, but he was barely known outside of the state. Things started to change for him in 1990 when respected journalist Robert Palmer, along with Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, journeyed to Holly Springs to film Deep Blues, the movie that brought attention to the vibrant, but still largely undocumented, contemporary blues scene in Mississippi. R.L. was a highlight of the film and his appearance led to his Robert Palmer produced debut on the then fledgling Fat Possum records, Too Bad Jim. Along with Junior Kimbrough's All Night Long, Too Bad Jim was one of the most important and influential albums of the '90s. He was playing electric, raw, north-Mississippi hill country-blues at its finest. No one had recorded music like this before, and it quickly met with great acclaim.
The critical success of Too Bad Jim brought R.L. to the attention of post-punk icon, Jon Spencer, who started taking R.L. out on tour and turning him on to a whole new audience. By this time, his band consisted of his grandson, Cedric, on drums and his "adopted son" Kenny Brown on guitar. They had no bass player, but their sound was full, and R.L.'s charisma won over young crowds that had never heard blues before. All of this led to the recording of A Ass Pocket Of Whiskey where he was backed by Jon Spencer and his band, The Blues Explosion. That album sold well and made R.L. the unlikely hero of the indie-rock world.
"Ass Pocket" was followed by Mr. Wizard, which featured his touring band, and then in 1998 he released Come On In which pitted his rawness against modern electronica, courtesy of producer Tom Rothrock (Beck, Elliot Smith). The album was a complete success both critically and commercially. One of its tracks ("It's Bad You Know") was even a respectable radio hit and was featured in the gangster TV show and soundtrack for The Sopranos.
So, here we are in the year 2000, and R.L. Burnside is still breaking down boundaries, while staying true to his soul, bringing the blues to where it's never gone before, and to people who have never heard it before. "Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down" is R.L.'s story. Listen up.
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