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Robert Belfour Black Mattie Album: What's Wrong With You
Genres: Blues
A haunting acoustic inversion of the Junior Kimbrough favorite, played as deep and dark as the Mississippi mud! |
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Though the label is best known for its raw electric blues, Fat Possum's best release this year comes from Robert Belfour, a man who truly knows how to make an acoustic guitar talk. Belfour gives "Black Mattie," a tune originally recorded by Junior Kimbrough for his Sad Days and Lonely Nights album, a dramatic acoustic overhaul; his version comes off even starker and more haunting than Kimbrough's original. Though this could easily pass for an old 78 from the 1920s or '30s, Belfour's insistent fingerpicking style won't sound too alien to anyone familiar with Bert Jansch, Donovan, Nick Drake, or even Led Zeppelin's acoustified moments. In other words, Belfour has been drinking at the same well as the English blues enthusiasts of the 1960s, but his vision and experience goes much, much deeper.
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Dan Epstein |
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Dan Epstein is a Los Angeles-based journalist and pop-culture historian whose work has appeared in L.A. Weekly, BAM, Raygun, Guitar World and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. His first book, Twentieth Century Pop Culture, was published in 1999 by Carlton Books.
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This is the real thing! What a treasure this artist is...
Paul David Mena
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for Robert Belfour
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Robert Belfour at Fat Possum
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