View basket “Smith / Kotzen” has been added to your basket. Sound Machine Groove R.L. Burnside SKU: HWX3723 Barcode: 097037372316 36.00 £36.00 Genre: Blues Label: HIGHWATER RECORDING CO. Released Date: 21st July 2023 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Seminal first studio recording by the legendary R.L. Burnside. Re-mastered for vinyl. Recorded by ethnomusicologist David Evans for High Water Records in 1979 and 1980, these are Burnside’s first recordings with electric guitar and also his first with a band. That band was the Sound Machine, a band he literally created himself out of members of his own family, blending raw Mississippi blues with soul, funk, R&B, and other urban flavors to make a marvelous amalgam of his own. Contemporary beats and modern themes like “Bad Luck City,” “Searching for My Baby,” “Can’t Let You Go,” and “Sound Machine Groove” sit nicely alongside slower, traditional material like “Going Down South” and “Begged for a Nickel,” while R.L.’s duets with drummer Calvin Jackson on “Goin’ Away Baby” and “Long Haired Doney” show a marvelous empathy and interplay. Especially notable is a version of “Sitting on Top of the World” with Burnside on slide guitar that, with Jackson’s help, neatly evokes the sound and feel of a fife and drum band. Although Burnside was hailed by the 1990’s blues crowd as something of an overnight success, one listen to this disc tells you he was already forging a new chapter in the Mississippi blues tradition with these recordings. Artist R.L. Burnside Genre Blues Label HIGHWATER RECORDING CO. Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Shake, Little Baby Rolling And Tumbling Bad Luck City Going Down South Sound Machine Groove Sitting On Top Of The World Begged For A Nickel Can't Let You Go Jumper Hanging Out On The Line Searching For My Baby Long Haired Doney Pretty Woman Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from R.L. Burnside and more from Blues View Product Quick View R.L. Burnside Long Distance Call: Europe, 1982 Blues | Fat Possum | 1LP Released 2nd September 2022 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders R.L. Burnside Long Distance Call: Europe, 1982 £18.00 Genre: Blues Label: Fat Possum SKU: FP15613 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 2nd September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View R.L. Burnside A Ass Pocket Of Whiskey Blues | Fat Possum | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 3rd April 2009 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders R.L. 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