{"id":1446,"date":"2021-04-26T12:24:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T12:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=1446"},"modified":"2021-05-04T13:32:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T13:32:18","slug":"malm-on-burnside-mathias-malm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/?page_id=1446","title":{"rendered":"”Malm On Burnside” \u2013 Mathias Malm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mathias Malm is a skilled guitar player from Malm\u00f6 in South Sweden. This is his very first solo project. I must say it takes a lot of guts to cover the late, great R.L. Burnside<\/a>. Great title too, a wordplay on Burnsides 2001 album \u201cBurnside On Burnside\u201d. R.L. Burnside wasn\u2019t known for playing easy campfire songs. What makes Burnside so special is his rhythmic skills. One could almost say that he set the standard for what became the North Mississippi Hill Country Blues. Many drummers, as well as guitarists,  have given up trying to catch up with him. But not Mathias Malm. Learning from records and YouTube clips he has done a great job, not only covering the 10 songs but also garnished them with his own personality. If one is to criticize anything it would be a lack of thumbs on a couple of songs, especially \u201cLong Haired Doney\u201d. But Malm do get the electric energy  of the song and makes it rock. This goes for the opening title \u201cSomeday Baby\u201d as well. Here Malm brings forth a tight mystic groove. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there is the question of why he has chosen to add \u201cWalking Blues\u201d to the list? This wasn\u2019t one of Burnsides own songs. (Son House\/Robert Johnson).  \u201cWhen My First Wife Left Me\u201d gives the listener beautiful finger picking and a soulful voice. Burnside\u2019s classic \u201cGoin\u2019 Down South\u201d, a dance tune that Burnside could play in long stretches is way to short, stopping at 1:55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malm finishes off with another less known song, the shuffle \u201cYou Don\u2019t Have To Go\u201d. Leaves the listener in a good mood and wondering what might come from Mathias Malm in the future. This is an interesting ”must have” for all fans of R.L. Burnside and North Mississippi Hill Country Blues! This record grows everytime you listen to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Listen on Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mathias Malm is a skilled guitar player from Malm\u00f6 in South Sweden. This is his very first solo project. I must say it takes a lot of guts to cover the late, great R.L. Burnside. Great title too, a wordplay on Burnsides 2001 album \u201cBurnside On Burnside\u201d. R.L. Burnside wasn\u2019t known for playing easy campfire… Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa ”Malm On Burnside” \u2013 Mathias Malm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1446","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1446\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folksyblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}