Track Listing

1. Been Mistreated
2. Come On In [Live]
3. Let My Baby Ride
4. Don't Stop Honey
5. It's Bad You Know
6. Just Like a Woman
7. Come On In, Pt. 2
8. Rollin' Tumblin' [Remix]
9. Please Don't Stay
10. Shuck Dub
11. Come On In, Pt. 3
12. Heat

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8127 in Music
• Released on: 1998-08-25
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Now, here's what you call a break from tradition. After bridging the gap between punk and blues on his collaboration with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, A Ass Pocket of Whiskey, Mississippi bluesman R.L. Burnside ventures into the world of beats and grooves with Come On In, a series of remix projects with producer Tom Rothrock (Beck, Foo Fighters). The cynics among you may smell opportunism, but Rothrock is sensitive and respectful enough to Burnside's originals to do them proper justice. Even the 4/4 high hat and filtered sound effects of "Rollin' Tumblin'" sound appropriate to the music at hand. Though these treatments--largely instrumental--erase the most of the presence of Burnside's searing vocals, Burnside and Rothrock's adventurousness will win over most to their progressive-thinkin' boogie chillun'. --Justin Hampton

Living Blues
This sort of record would make a blues purist puke, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. The music is recognizably R.L.'s, but on most of the tracks it has been altered, either by a cutting and pasting of his sounds or by the addition of beats or sounds created by people from backgrounds completely different from his.

New Musical Express
Come On In is a valiantly fruitless attempt at fusing Burnside's down-home electric blues with the hypnotic thud of electronica. The result, unsurprisingly, is another grottily endearing Burnside LP with the occasional irritating trip-hop thump obstructing listening pleasure.

Customer Reviews

dance music for the blues connoisseur
lets get this straight. This is not a standard blues disc, so don't judge it as one. The CD is made for those who enjoy upbeat electronic music, and it just happens that it's blues orientated. I'm a blues fan, and this fusion of musical genres has allowed me for the first time to enjoy semi-organic, quality dance music. Let the blues fans have a chance to dance true in the 90's. Well done Fat Possum and R.L Turn it up!!

Not your grandpappy's blues
This record brims with attitude. I had not heard R.L. before, but the first time through, I was sold big time. The record features an odd marriage of blues and studio gadgetry, but it mostly works. It's cool to hear a departure from straight ahead blues, and this record is leading me to explore the genre as I haven't done before. I followed up this purchase with Junior Kimbrough's "All Night Long", also on Fat Possum, which is amazing - it takes me deep, deep into Mississippi. If you like raw, unadorned blues, R.L.'s live version of "Come on in" is for you. The lead-in is great and the song itself is eerie and beautiful; this is the real deal. Much of the rest of the record demands that the volume be turned up; this ain't music to listen to on the couch.

An acquired taste, but try it
This album is kind of like wasabi: it takes some getting used to but if you do, you have a friend for life. You're in for a big surprise if you're expecting traditional blues from this old bluesman. This is techno remix blues, which obviously won't please some, but he pulls it off. Best-known and probably the best tune is "It's Bad You Know", played on WXRT in Chicago, who turned me on to the album. Most of the cuts are musical loops, not all of which work, but overall pretty solid and recommended for anyone wanting something different. Die-hard blues purists need not apply.