Today’s Random Album of the Day is Wish I was In Heaven Sitting Down from R.L. Burnside. This is straight up blues music.
I really like good blues music and this is that. So glad I have this in my collection. I’m no expert in Blues but I appreciate it and enjoy it. R.L. Burnside has that sort of older blues sound. There is a more modern sound I don’t always love. But this I absolutely adore. This album is just really good.
There is something about the raw guitar and vocals that evokes early blues sounds. “Too Many Ups” starts a departure from this sound but is also an enjoyable song. This track is more modern but it works. It’s a bit funky. It’s got some nice horns. “Nothin’ Man” is more modern too but in a different way. Honestly there is a fair amount of variety on this album too.
“R.L.’s Story” is some serious talk. It’s basically him discussing all the people who’ve been killed in his life for a part of it. Then talking about his different moves around and such.
Rating: 9.5
Favorite Track(s): Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues or Miss Maybelle. Really this album is full of great songs but the early songs are the best!
Keep or Trash: Keep. So good.
Background
Every day, or nearly every day anyhow, I will randomly select an album from my collection of digital music, listen to it, and share it here. – Jayne
My wife and I are board gamers and we gamify nearly everything in life. This includes our music listening. We use a dice catapult to roll dice and then use the dice results to pick our vinyl listens. So why not do something similar for the blog?
I have made the randomizer table I use for picking the album of the day available! What? It’s a simple table but uses some weird dice. If you are not familiar, if you say D30 that means a 30 sided die. These are the dice the randomizer table uses: D30, D4, D8, D10, D12, D14, and D20. The D14 and D30 are unique but you can buy cheap packs of dice with those in them off the internet.
The basic steps are to 1) roll the D30. That picks the starting letter or if it’s a number. 2) Then use the chart roll the die associated with the first letter to pick the second letter. If you get “Other” that means numbers or some other weird character. If none of those exist re-roll. 3) Once you have the second letter you can use that to roll for a third letter if needed. 4) That should get you down to a few artists and from there you pick dice based on the number of artists. 5) finally for the artist selected you roll a die for the number of albums listed. Then you have your Random Album to listen to….
Download the Random Album Selector Table here: