Album Reviews / Pop

* * * R.L. Burnside, “Come On In,” Fat Possum/Epitaph. Having helped shepherd Beck’s neo-folk-blues into postmodern hip-hop, producer Tom Rothrock delves deep into the Delta to make loopy loops from blues man Burnside’s music. It’s a great match. The raw material--among the best in unkempt, electric backwoods blues--rolls along like Moroccan trance music. Rothrock’s reconfigurations enhance that quality more effectively than Burnside’s 1996 teaming with New York hipsters the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

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