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Genre: Blues Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 23-MAY-2000
CD Reviews
Five stars is an understatement... superlative
Bryan E. Newbury | Madison, Georgia United States | 07/04/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"upon the first listen to "what's wrong with you" i knew that this was one of those albums that never would get old. from the first note, you know that you are embarking on a one-in-a-million musical journey. if you're a mississippi blues fan, there is no excuse to pass this up. there isn't a weak moment; even the two tracks with drums ("my baby's gone," "what's wrong with you") are understated and, well, spooky. the guitar work is ethereal and obviously the product of genius, esp. on tracks 2 & 4. (a brief aside: i've tried to figure out his tunings, including asking sources at his label, and THEY haven't figured it out.) you won't hear anything this original for a long, long time."
Belfour is your man
Sondra Snodgrass | Worthington, OH United States | 08/21/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Of all the top-notch albums put out by Fat Possum, Robert Belfour's What's Wrong With You is second only to Junior Kimbrough's All Night Long (which I think is one of the top 25 Blues albums of all-time). Robert Belfour has it all: Hypnotic, yet intricate guitar work, a highly expressive voice, perfect timing, and a real feel for the power of nuance and understatement. If you are into the work of Junior Kimbrough, Lightnin' Hopkins and Mississippi Fred McDowell, then Robert Belfour is your man."
Mean-ass Mississippi blues
Jeanne Lightly | 06/17/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"There's been a voodoo shortage in the Mississippi hills since bluesman Junior Kimbrough died two years ago. But Robert Belfour evokes some of the same dark, roiling spirits with the slithery guitar lines of Bad Luck and other numbers on this debut CD."
Dark & Deep Delta Blues
IrishGit | West Cork | 11/27/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"One of the best things abt this release is the digipak cover which is a perfect visual analogue to the music - wolfmans face is barely framed & like a francis bacon portrait seeps & bleeds into the viewer. The music is gorgeous - rich rumbling guitar & voice (with occasional rudimentary drums) - so deep it sounds like it's coming from the bowels of the earth. It's difficult to believe that one man can produce so much from so little. The world he inhabits seems limited & restricted (as any one mans world ultimately will be) but the music is so fluid & sensual & unified (so much 'one thing') that it bleeds out of its confines & affects on the deep level of our humanity. Basically this is music that instructs you on how to be a better human being. The man was born 1940 & this is his first release. Thanks to fatpossum for 'discovering' him."
Best acoustic blues I've heard in ages!
IrishGit | 06/22/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Hypnotic, intense, and deeply soulful - those are three ways to describe this amazing debut album by Robert Belfour. His covers of Junior Kimbrough's "Black Mattie" and "Done Got Old" recast the songs in an intimate, acoustic context, thus giving them even more emotional power than the originals, and his own compositions are just as impressive. Belfour's voice is worn in like a fine old catcher's mitt, and his folk-blues finger-picking will make you think you hear two (or more) guitars playing at once. And if that ain't enough, he even includes a touching love song to his wife ("Norene")! Definitely the best new album of acoustic blues I've heard in years!"
Track Listings (9) - Disc #1