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What's Wrong with You
2000 studio album by Robert Belfour From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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What's Wrong with You is an album by the American musician Robert Belfour, released in 2000.[1][2] He was 60 when the album was released.[3] Belfour supported the album by participating in the Fat Possum Juke Joint Caravan tour.[4]
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Production
Belfour signed with Fat Possum after a fan spent years asking if Belfour's phone number could be relayed to the label.[5] "Black Mattie" and "Done Got Old" were written by Junior Kimbrough, Belfour's former neighbor.[6][7] Belfour used a drummer on only two tracks.[8]
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Billboard wrote that Belfour's "insistent, fluid guitar work and keening singing may remind the listener of John Lee Hooker at times, but his strong, original songs ... and a hypnotic style that betrays his North Mississippi roots, establish him firmly in a class by himself."[13] The Winston-Salem Journal determined that "it is impossible not to hear John Lee Hooker, Fred McDowell and Charlie Patton in Belfour's vocal phrasing and his delightfully eclectic guitar playing."[14] The Commercial Appeal called the album "a tour-de-force of startling fortitude and timeless character that will have you envisioning Belfour contemporaries R. L. Burnside and the late Junior Kimbrough."[10]
The Village Voice stated that, "with a voice cracking with the rage of the oppressed and cuckolded, 60-yearold Belfour is a silent sufferer who'd rather wallow than fight."[15] The Chicago Tribune noted that, "even as fickle characters deceive, confuse and betray him, the singer maintains a melancholy dignity, his stoic voice exuding compassion even as the world he knows collapses around him."[16] The News-Gazette deemed What's Wrong with You "easily one of finest pure Mississippi blues albums to emerge in years, if not decades."[5] Knight Ridder considered it the second best blues album of 2000.[17]
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