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R.L. Burnside
Burnside on Burnside
A series of notes coaxed from a soli
tary slide guitar are enough to grab hold
of new fans for R.L. Burnside’s old style
of music.
The first strains of blues and boogie
immediately draw the listener to the
lively sounds of Burnside on Burnside, the
revered guitarist’s first major live album.
These sounds haven’t been heard in the
polished, restrained blues that have
become popular over the years. This is
music of the past that still sounds new
and vital with its raw, stripped-down
and propulsive nature.
The band maintains a forceful, driving
rhythm even without the use of a bass
guitar. Burnside, his grandson Cedric
Burnside on drums and his adopted son,
Kenny Brown, on slide guitar are able to
keep things tight without it.
At the center of the affair, of course,
is R.L. After all, he embodies the music
he’s played for nearly 50 years. He sur
vived tough times and bad luck, knew
all the women he sings about and lived
the Mississippi-hill-country blues for
much longer than today’s music lovers
have been paying attention.
R.L.’s blues are enhanced by his
strong voice and the wonderful music he
extracts from just one chord. Every now
and then, he adds a joke or interlude for
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For Now could be a much different
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suited to a children’s sing-along and
more allied with his impressive lyrics
and carefully arranged instrumentals.
Lewis’ eternally placid singing effec
tively subverts his lyrical power, making
the folk singer/songwriter’s second LP
fall victim to a plague of songs the lis
tener cannot take seriously.
In the oddly rollicking “The Rain
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sweedy smiling through his lines about
heartbreak. When he sings “My heart is
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melancholy, Lewis continually lisps
along in upbeat, bouncy tones. The
album, by merit of this continual cheer
fulness, occasionally approaches the trite.
And gende but multi-faceted instru
mentals often dwarf Lewis’ effeminate
vocals, further proving that the vocalist
is indeed the weakest link. Only “Old
Dreams Fade Away," in which Lewis
sings the first verse a cappella, flatters
the singer.
Unfortunately, Lewis more often miss
es than hits. Especially difficult for the lis
tener is the cover of Nick Drake’s
“Northern Sky." The instrumentals are
incredibly fluid and lilt perfecdy in the
Drake tradition. But he can’t hold a candle
to Drake, and Lewis tries to emulate him
repeatedly - Lewis’ voice just does not
have that “Pink Moon” allure of Drake’s.
But there is no doubt that Lewis pos
sesses definite lyrical prowess despite
being vocally challenged. Some particu
larly poignant moments on the album
are preserved through the simple power
of the words that Lewis uses.
On “You Don’t Know,” even Lewis’
voice can’t dilute the insight of lines like
“I was bom the day you kissed me/I
lived a while in between/And I died the
day you left me/In a place where sad
ness goes unseen.” It’s a complicated
sentiment expressed simply and is one
of the album’s highlights.
Too bad an album can’t be all about
the words. Lewis ultimately couldn’t
establish the balance between singing
and songwriting.
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Pseudo Punksters Reach
Horrendous Low Point
By Nick Parker
Staff Writer
Lit’s biggest hit had fresh-faced,
would-be punks singing along to “please
tell me whyeiiieiii” for months, thanks
to 1999’s “My Own Worst Enemy.”
The band has
just released
another album,
and listeners with
any taste should
throw that chorus
back at the group.
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Lit
Atomic
★★☆☆☆
Please, tell me why.
After the baffling success of its previ
ous LP, A Place in the Sun, Lit stick* to
the same bouncy melodies in their sec
ond attempt, Atomic. An uncomfortable
mix of pop and heavy metal, Lit’s sound
doesn’t stand out as unique because it
doesn’t conform - it just fails in both
fields.
Much like the music, little has
changed about the band. Still a restless
gang of wannabe romantics, nothing
of any real importance is uncovered or
even explored during the entire
album.
It seems as if the band simply writes
and performs whatever will please the
teenage pop fans that want to be hard
core. A. Jay Popoff, lead vocalist,
whines about a seemingly endless
parade of love “tragedies,” never
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diverging from the formula that granted
him his 15 seconds of fame.
The album has no diversity, being
merely a poorly organized pile of shal
low, loveless love songs.
Each lending his own listless drone to
the lost melodies, no member of Lit
boasts particularly strong musical tal
ents. Guitarist Jeremy Popoff relies
more on his distortion pedals than his
abilities, cranking out monotonous
chords that vary only in their amount of
ugly amalgamation of noise.
Hidden in the background, drummer
Allen Shellenberger throws in random
crashes and thumps, establishing chaos
instead of rhythm.
One of the only redeeming factors is
Kevin Baldes, a bassist who delivers
some truly powerful riffs in “Live For
This.” His ability glows moderately in
the background, trying to be recognized
despite the otherwise struggling noise.
Unfortunately, Baldes is drowned out
by the distracting, nasal whine of A. Jay
Popoff, and his lack of versatility as a
singer is only outdone by his weakness
as a writer.
The superficial and often silly lyrics,
(“I got a lot of good drugs/But I don’t
know how to use ’em/So I threw ’em in
the trash/And now my dogs are high as
hell,”) make no sense and dwell on
empty issues. “Sunny Weather” and
“Everything’s Cool” particularly have
nothing to say yet still drag on for sev
eral minutes.
Surprisingly, a: few choice tracks
could be worth the time they take to
play, but not for the price of the LP. The
blossoming “She Comes” stumbles
upon touching lyrics and a rolling beat
while “Lipstick and Bruises” boasts
clever moments and a catchy tune that
isn’t just annoying.
Trying to recreate the sounds that
garnered them fame in the pop-y
teenage circles, Lit has not changed in
the least. Atomic proves that Lit is just
another one-hit wonder band that has
stayed too long at the fair. They are
their own worst enemy.
The Arts & Entertainment Editor can
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