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''Deliverance'' is the second album by American rapper Bubba Sparxxx, released on September 16, 2003 by Beat Club/Interscope Records. It was produced by Timbaland and Organized Noize. Although this album was only moderately successful, selling around 350,000 copies, it is regarded by many critics such as ''The Source'', ''Hip-Hop Connection'' and more mainstream magazines such as ''Q'' to be something of a landmark in hip-hop music. The album's main strength according to critics was that it embraced Sparxxx's grass roots, with production heavily influenced by country music and similar musical styles. This influence is evident on tracks such as "Comin' Round" which sampled its chorus from a track by the bluegrass group The Yonder Mountain String Band, leadout single "Jimmy Mathis" which is led by a catchy harmonica tune from the Area Code 615 track "Stone Fox Chase", and "She Tried" led by a washboard rhythm section and a mellow fiddle sound.
''Deliverance'' spawned two hit singles, "Back In The Mud" and "Deliverance". In 2010, Rhapsody (online music service) included it in its list of "The 10 Best Albums By White Rappers". "Back In The Mud" was also featured on the Madden 2004 soundtrack. - Wikipedia
When Bubba Sparxxx released Dark Days, Bright Nights in 2001, it was greeted with a palpable sense of derision, despite being a pretty good album with a pretty great single, "Ugly." "Uh-oh," the theory went. "Timbaland can't possibly keep his current pace up, there's only room at the top for one white rapper, and while the 'Ugly' video is cute, Bubba isn't, nor is the fact that his song reprises 'Get Ur Freak On' (ahem) whole hog at the end." Sparxxx was being referred to as a one-hit wonder even before his first hit fell off the charts, and the great Timbaland-is-over scare proved to be just as false in its third year as it now is in its fifth. So how did Sparxxx respond? By ignoring it, which was smart, and by writing his ass off, which is even smarter. Deliverance isn't quite a masterpiece, but it's as good as anything out right now, which counts for a lot. "Jimmy Mathis" finds Bubba elongating his vowels until they're so syrupy you could cover a year's worth of short stacks with them, over country-blues-funk harmonica and crunked-up drums. "Comin' Round" goes even further into the deep piney woods: every hip-hop producer who's ever heard the RZA has sampled violins, but few have used fiddles. And Bubba's flow is up to the music, a kindly but take-no-s*** presence that, along with the Drive-By Truckers, David Banner, and the entire city of Atlanta, helps make the American South the capital of pop music right now. "I think they're right," Sparxxx notes at one point. "This ain't nothin' but some hick-hop." Live by the drawl, die by the drawl.
