"A Bothered Mind is perhaps the most ideally representative of all of Burnside's albums, ranging from solo acoustic tracks to crunching boogie struts, all with a light dose of hip-hop and enough scratching and looping effects to make this clearly an album from the 21st century. Amazingly, it all works as a cohesive whole, opening with a 38-second live fragment of "Detroit Boogie" (in which Burnside intones "I do what I want..."), and then closing with the full version. In between these bookends, the album - aside from the rather contrived Kid Rock track, "My Name Is Robert Too" - is continually fascinating, and it never stops churning. 

"The most striking track is also the earliest and simplest, a solo acoustic version of "Bird Without a Feather" that was field recorded by folklorist George Mitchell in 1968. Two tracks here, the umpteenth version of Burnside's signature "Goin' Down South" and "Someday Baby," were produced by Lyrics Born (T. Shimura) of the Quannum collective, and he gives both songs a delightful hip-hop sheen without sacrificing one bit of Burnside's irascible swagger. The rap interlude Lyrics Born delivers on "Someday Baby" is nothing less than a second-cousin update of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues." 

"Perhaps the most surprising song here is "Glory Be," which finds Burnside exploring some more new territory, this time inventing a kind of Saturday night juke joint gospel. Listen for R.L.'s chuckle all through these tracks. He's having fun. He's pushing the blues forward, all without changing a beat. He's making relevant albums when musicians half his age are washed up and creatively exhausted. Is he trying to say that rap is the new blues? Mostly he's just trying to keep that dancefloor filled." - Fat Possum Records/All Music

1.  Detroit Boogie, Pt. 1

2.  See What My Buddy Done

3.  Shake 'Em On Down

4.  Goin' Down South feat. Lyrics Born

5.  My Name Is Robert Too feat. Kid Rock

6.  Someday Baby feat. Lyrics Born

7.  Go To Jail

8.  Bird Without A Feather

9.  Glory Be

10. Goin' Away Baby

11. Rollin' And Tumblin'

12. Stole My Check

13. Detroit Boogie, Pt. 2