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| What's Wrong with You | 
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| Artist: Robert Belfour
Label: Fat Possum
Category: Music
Buy New: $19.93
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 631772
Media: LP Record
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.2
UPC: 045778033614
EAN: 0045778033614
ASIN: B00004T4AK
Release Date: May 23, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | My Baby's Gone | | • | Black Mattie - Robert Belfour, Kimbrough, Junior | | • | What's Wrong With You | | • | Done Got Old - Robert Belfour, Kimbrough, Junior | | • | Treat Me Right | | • | Walking' the Floor | | • | Norene | | • | Holding My Pillow | | • | Bad Luck |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Perhaps if Robert Belfour had been born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or Madison, Wisconsin, he would be still playing the exact same music. But somehow, it just seems impossible. Born and raised in the hill country of north Mississippi, Belfour plays the pulsing, insistent style of blues boogie that is a birthright of all those born in and around his Holly Springs hometown. Because this droning style leaves out well-developed melodies and chord changes, it is reliant on two primal factors: rhythmic drive and deep emotional investment. Belfour's music has both qualities, and his supple, lively guitar work is the perfect foil for his intensely passionate, moaning vocals. Now, a 60-year-old veteran of Memphis's Beale Street blues scene, Belfour releases this head-turning debut, which brings to mind the unflappable groove of fellow Mississippian John Lee Hooker and the intensity of Texan Lightnin' Hopkins. While Belfour may have digested the music, culture, and collective soul of his native soil, his blues, like that of any bluesman worth a damn, is uniquely his own. --Marc Greilsamer
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Robert Belfour moves your soul January 22, 2006
If you can listen to "My Baby's Gone" & "Walkin' the Floor" and not empathize with Robert Belfour then you don't know blues music...that's what blues is all about, forcing someone to empathize with emotions that are portrayed through the music. Robert Belfour has done that for me. Excellent work!!
Dark & Deep Delta Blues November 27, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
Truely great March 23, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The reviews below say it all; except for the one 3 star review. Apparently Belfour was relunctant to record and spent most of years working construction.His work is original, inspiring, haunting and beautiful. His acoustic guitar is clear and sharp; while his vocals are deeply felt and soulful without being depressing. This guy is an American original; there's no overproduction here but pure, original talent. The other reviewers are correct, this could be one of the great contemporary blues CDs in the last 20 years.
Done got a good job Fat Possum!!! April 10, 2002
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
The courage of this label to record all of this kind of Delta Blues musicians almost unknown by the most bluesfans from everywhere must, be recognized as an excellent work to promote and improve our taste by this kind of music.This is a music that seems to be the same,no matter what North Mississippi Delta musician is playing.And they are many,such Jr. Kimbrough,R.L. Burnside;Jesse Mae;Bud Spires;and many others who experienced that difficult kind of living in poor and poverty conditions,and transformed that feelings in this original way to play blues.I really recomend a view of Robert Palmer's DVD "Deep Blues" to a perfectly vision of the conditions of the environment,around that people.They were playing at that Jook Joints,and perhaps that was the only way to express all of the laments,the suffered conditions they lived.There were two extremes at that time .To go to the churches,or in contradition,to that ugly Jook Joints.
And many of them,choosed this second way.That richness blues was only begining and what we are listening now,is a small view of that fertile cultural movement,restricted to that Mississippi Hills!!Some tracks in this cd,sounds like have influenced Bob Dylan in his way to play and to sing!!!!Another Fat Possum's great contribution to the history of the Blues!!
Belfour is your man August 21, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
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