Track Listing

1. My Baby's Gone
2. Black Mattie
3. What's Wrong With You
4. Done Got Old
5. Treat Me Right
6. Walkin' The Floor
7. Norene
8. Holding My Pillow
9. Bad Luck

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #117225 in Music
• Released on: 2005-06-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .14 pounds

CD Description
This is Robert Belfour's debut, recorded when he was 59. Born and raised in northern Mississippi, Belfour's acoustic blues are confident and vivid, drawing on influences from the southern delta area of his state. After a move to Memphis and several decades spent working in the construction business, he began performing and touring earnestly in the mid '90s.
Besides his fluid fingerpicking style and strummed guitar playing, he's an impassioned singer and strong writer. These nine songs could have come from just about any decade in the 20th Century, from the '20s onward. Recorded with straightforward simplicity, this set's sound is rich and warm in detail. The album sounds timeless without being museum-bound reverent. Robert Belfour may be part of a tradition, but he's also brought Delta Blues forward with marvellous style andgrace.

Customer Reviews

Dark & Deep Delta Blues
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 out of the frame 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.

For those still mourning the great John Lee Hooker....
This is a fantastic CD- one that is more than worthy of it's spot on my shelf next to Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker and Robert Johnson.

Apparently this is Belfour's first CD- at the age of 60 something. He is a Delta bluesman, and listening to him play and sing, its hard to believe that this is new, and not a re master from the golden age. Traditional, as genuine as the blues get, and with all the driving soulful rythmns of Hooker and Hopkins at their best.

If you're a fan of old fashioned Delta blues- this is indispensible.