Lollipop Magazine

Junior Kimbrough – You Better Run – Review

January 10, 2003

You Better Run compiles songs from the three albums released on Fat Possum during his life and does a nice job of representing them all.

Mississippi Fred McDowell – Mama Says I’m Crazy – Review

January 3, 2003

Recorded in a house in a couple of hours in 1965 by Mississippi Fred McDowell and Johnny Woods. These two old friends hadn’t played together in eight years.

T-Model Ford – Bad Man – Review

January 3, 2003

Bad Man is raw like a wound scrubbed with steel wool, jagged like the neck snapped from a bottle of Thunderbird ESQ, and chock full of soul and attitude.

Solomon Burke – Don’t Give Up On Me – Review

November 15, 2002

A contemporary of legends like Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding, Solomon Burke made a series of incredible recordings in the ’60s and ’70s. And then he vanished.

Asie Payton – Just Do Me Right – Review

May 31, 2002

Some is the straight-forward blues Payton played at home, bars, and bait shops around Washington County, Mississippi. Some of it’s goosed-up with studio beats.

Robert Pete Williams – Review

February 22, 2002

Robert Pete Williams passed away back in 1980, wasted by cancer; an original talent pretty much ignored by the market and most of his contemporaries.

R.L. Burnside – Mississippi Hill Country Blues – Review

February 22, 2002

The newish Mississippi Hill Country Blues material has been available in Europe since the mid-’80s and was recorded between 1980 and 1984.

Not the Same Old Blues Crap II – Review

February 22, 2002

Sad truth is the Blues is whitherin’, tho’ not dead, not yet, as Fat Possum proves over and over again by releasin’ records like this.

Robert Belfour – What’s Wrong with You – Review

June 1, 2000

Fat Possum release this comparatively restrained set o’ songs by one Robert Belfour. He’s a guitar player, to be sure, but a madman, I think not.

T-Model Ford – She Ain’t None of Your’n – Review

June 1, 2000

T-Model Ford, perhaps the hardest-workin’ septuagenarian in show biz, has released his third record in as many years.