• Record Label: Epitaph
  • Release Date: Oct 23, 2001
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. The album's electrifying, hypnotic songs are hard to shake.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    Essential Burnside, especially for beginners. [9 Nov 2001, p.110]
  3. The 74-year-old singer/guitarist rocks out furiously for the better part of the set, evoking obvious predecessors such as Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker.
  4. Burnside and Co. play with a perfect recklessness, as though no one was listening.
  5. Backed by 22-year-old grandson Cedric Burnside on drums and longtime slide-guitar partner Kenny Brown, the trio locks into a groove almost instinctually on tracks like "Skinny Woman" and "Goin' Down South."
  6. Q Magazine
    60
    The likes of the gnarled, rough-edged Rollin' & Tumblin' serve as vital pieces of living history from the last of a generation. [Dec 2001, p.120]
  7. Uncut
    60
    If you thought they didn't make 'em like this anymore, here's the exception that proves the rule. [Feb 2002, p.112]

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User Score
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User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. BenD.
    Apr 24, 2002
    8
    Absolutely fantastic - RL's best release, and a superb blues album that should, by rights, put him up there with the greats!
  2. ChrisM.
    Nov 18, 2001
    9
    As perfect a document as either a die-hard Burnside fan or a mere novice could hope for. And by Fat Possum standards, the 53 minute length is As perfect a document as either a die-hard Burnside fan or a mere novice could hope for. And by Fat Possum standards, the 53 minute length is of epic proportions. Full Review »