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R.L. BURNSIDE - Well... Well... Well 2001


R.L. BURNSIDE - Well... Well... Well 2001
Label: M.C.
Recorded between 1986 and 1993

Blues

(((A REAL CHARACTER with an affable, toothless smile, R.L. Burnside, the Mississippi hill country bluesman and ex-con, passed on at a hospital in Memphis on September 1 at age 78. For most of his life, Burnside was an undiscovered talent who made a living as a sharecropper, playing guitar on the side. It wasn't until he was in his 60s that the upstart Mississippi label, Fat Possum, recorded a bunch of kickass records controversially matching his raw and feisty electric blues sound with rock and hiphop remixes. Burnside found a whole new audience, not only outside the Mississippi juke joints where he was paid $3 and some whiskey per gig, but beyond the blues festival circuit as well...))).
Article from: The Stranger.
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M.C. Records released Well... Well... Well... (MC-0042) on March 27. The sales and reviews have been great! M.C. Records has placed over 10,000 copies worldwide and growing. Check out who's playing the CD (that we know of)!
The CD was played on the syndicated radio program "American Routes" in April. The show is aired on over 100 stations from coast-to-coast. R.L. was just on N.P.R.'s morning edition (March 26) and Conan O'Brien in February.
"...different from his recent Fat Possum recordings...these recordings, utilizing mostly just guitar, harmonica and percussion, emphasize Burnside's roots. Covers of "Staggolee" and John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillen" can stand up to any previous artist's versions. Not just for blues fans...will appeal to fans of Beck, Moby and Ani DiFranco."
From New York Newsday.
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"Well, Well, Well isn't your typical studio release. ...there is plenty of new material here.  All of it achieves an instant intimacy. The disc should serve the growing legend of R.L. Burnside well."
By Howard Owens, Ventura County Star.
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M.C. Records' previous release by R.L. Burnside, Acoustic Stories (MC-0034), was a 1998 W.C. Handy Nominee for Blues Reissue of the Year.
Well...Well...Well....one of the best albums in the last 10 years crossing all genres of music."
From Revue Magazine.
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You might think a collection of bootlegs featuring R.L. Burnside is less than interesting, or maybe even a cynical way for Burnside and M.C. Records to cash in on his current popularity without having to release any new material. You might think that, but you'd be woefully mistaken. A fascinating, scattershot collection of tunes and interviews, recorded between 1986 and 1993, Well...Well...Well offers a uniquely personal window into one of blues music's most gifted performers. Many of the recordings are transferred directly from tapes made in sheds and out-of-the-way venues, with Burnside, often using only his voice and a rusty guitar, playing and telling stories detailing a bluesman's woes.
Check out the risqué, boom-box recording of "Staggolee," a traditional tune that Burnside lays into while boozing it up with fellow bluesmen Jon Morris and Curtis Salgado in an old New Orleans shotgun house. Or Muddy Waters's "Can't Be Satisfied," recorded in the same house by Burnside, this time sober and all by his lonesome. He's nursing a cold, and his voice is grainy, his guitar sublime as he entertains himself with a loose, lonely rendition. There are proper live venue recordings as well, like the slow chug of his own "Nightmare Blues," performed to an enthusiastic crowd at the Queen Street Playhouse in South Carolina. There are also recordings taken from performances in Holland ("Poor Boy" in a large theater at The Hague, and two others recorded in a shed just outside Gieterveen, near the house where his then-girlfriend lived) and Athens, Greece, where Burnside digs into Chester Burnette's "How Many More Years" and Willie Dixon's "My Babe." Taken as a whole, this odd assortment acts an illuminating document of Burnside's dusty Delta roots.
By Matthew Cooke.
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R. L. Burnside- (Vocals, Guitar);
Curtis Salgado- (Harmonica, Background Vocals);
Calvin Jackson- (Drums).
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01. Charlestown Interview 1:00
02. How Many More Years 4:00
03. Goin Down South 2:31
04. Stagolee 4:42
05. Can't Be Satisfied 2:46
06. Boogie Chillen 2:45
07. Nightmare Blues 4:22
08. Rolling & Tumbling 4:41
09. Grazing Grass Rap 1:32
10. Last Night 2:33
11. Mellow Peaches 3:24
12. Forty Four Pistol 6:27
13. Bad Luck Monkey Rap 6:33
14. My Babe 3:01
15. Poor Boy 3:23
16. Just Like A Woman 3:24
17. Goin Away Baby 4:53
18. Mojo Hand 1:12
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