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Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down

by R.l. Burnside

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Overall Rating: 2.5144 Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down is ranked overall as 2.5144 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.8920 Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down has an avg. critic score of 2.8920 out of 4 stars

Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down Album Reviews

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PopMatters

R.L.'s voice has never been so well recorded. The dark, deep, weathered, grain stands its ground alongside the greatest living roots legends: John Lee Hooker and Johnny Cash. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

The legendary bluseman returns to a straightforward John Lee Hooker/"Mississippi" Fred McDowell style, yet still incorporates the turntable scratches and ambient beats that made him an indie-rock hero

Rolling Stone

The guitars (some by occasional Beck and Tom Waits sideman Smokey Hormel) snap out repetitive riffage that's one step from cliche. But Burnside's singing has never been more compelling on record. ...more

Rolling Stone

In the new blues aesthetic coalescing around R.L. Burnside, the old reliable twelve-bar form is molded into long, wailing vamps that are punctuated by DJ scratchings, then pushed through the filters and processors of electronic dance music. ...more

Yahoo! Music

Like jazz, the blues has its share of late bloomers -- artists who didn't start recording or didn't become well-known until they were well into their 50s or 60s. R.L. Burnside is very much a late bloomer; the Mississippi bluesman was born in 1926, but it wasn't until the 1990s that he started to enjoy the publicity he deserved. ...more

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Wall of Sound

Unlike his previous efforts, the guitar isn't the focal point here; instead, it's the ambience created by tape loops, scratching, and Burnside's singing and talking that makes the record both edgy and relevant....read the complete review at Wall of Sound

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Spin Cycle

Burnside's singing is the strongest it's been in years, hitting aching falsettos in "Bad Luck City" and then, on the title track, letting his voice get as dark and gritty as the silt of the Mississippi River....read the complete review at Spin Cycle

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Mojo

The higher production values simply water down R.L.'s natural...read the complete review at Mojo

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The A.V. Club

North Mississippi bluesman R.L. Burnside has had one of the most welcome and unexpected third-act careers in recent years. After laboring in obscurity, Burnside found a wider audience thanks to the 1991 film Deep Blues, in which director Robert Mugge and...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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