1. My Baby's Gone	4:46	
2. Black Mattie	4:48	
3. What's Wrong With You	4:41
4. Done Got Old	4:50	
5. Treat Me Right	3:50	
6. Walkin' the Floor	4:25	
7. Norene	5:14	
8. Holding My Pillow	4:30
9. Bad Luck	4:17

Robert Belfour – guitar, vocals
Bryan Barry - drums

Perhaps if Robert Belfour had been born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or Madison, Wisconsin, he would be still playing the exact same music. But somehow, it just seems impossible. Born and raised in the hill country of north Mississippi, Belfour plays the pulsing, insistent style of blues boogie that is a birthright of all those born in and around his Holly Springs hometown. Because this droning style leaves out well-developed melodies and chord changes, it is reliant on two primal factors: rhythmic drive and deep emotional investment. Belfour's music has both qualities, and his supple, lively guitar work is the perfect foil for his intensely passionate, moaning vocals. Now, a 60-year-old veteran of Memphis's Beale Street blues scene, Belfour releases this head-turning debut, which brings to mind the unflappable groove of fellow Mississippian John Lee Hooker and the intensity of Texan Lightnin' Hopkins. While Belfour may have digested the music, culture, and collective soul of his native soil, his blues, like that of any bluesman worth a damn, is uniquely his own. ---Marc Greilsamer, amazon.com

There's a certain honesty about people like Robert Belfour. Just by listening to What's Wrong With You one can immediately tell that he had a back breaking life in Memphis, TN. Blues enthusiasts are fortunate enough to hear all about it on his first album.

Belfour was 60 years old by the time that What's Wrong With You came out. Over forty years of guitar playing is clearly heard throughout this record, as he bears his soul of all the heartbreak and hard times in his life. And through his vintage of country based blues that looks back into the '20s and '30s, you can tell that there's not a fake bone in Belfour's body. --- Mike DaRonco, Rovi

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1. Hill Stomp	2:59
2. Breaking My Heart	5:01
3. Pushin' My Luck	4:34             play
4. Go Ahead On	4:23                 play
5. You Got Me Crying	4:05
6. I Got My Eyes On You	4:32
7. Sweet Brown Sugar	3:43
8. Stayed Awake	3:39
9. Crazy Ways		4:17
10. I'm Gonna Leave You	3:43

Personnel: 
Robert Belfour (vocals, guitar); 
Ted "Zaney" Gainey (drums).

Memphis-based bluesman Robert Belfour's second album is a bit vexing. He's an appealing singer whose deep, cotton-mouthed voice has plenty of rough charisma, and he bawls out every line with the despair of a haunted man. When Belfour sings "I stayed awake all night, waiting for my baby to come home," in "Stayed Awake," he's utterly believable. The raw, woody tones of his acoustic guitar are pleasing, too. The trouble is his arrangements are virtually interchangeable. On all 10 of these songs Belfour's guitar repeats same-sounding sliding notes and arpeggios over the single-chord drone that defines the blues of his native North Mississippi. There's no slide, few variations in his patterns, and--despite primal drumming on some tracks--little change in tempos throughout the entire album. This would be a very dull recording, indeed, if not for the way these elements begin to blur into a kind of trance-inspiring signature that often recalls traditional African string music, especially in "Sweet Brown Sugar" and "Pushin' My Luck." Still, if you're looking for something more than mild musical hypnosis, this disc falls short. --Ted Drozdowski

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