What's Wrong with You

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[9]
The Commercial Appeal	[10]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings	[11]
The Philadelphia Inquirer	[12]
Winnipeg Sun	[7]

Billboard wrote that Belfour's "insistent, fluid guitar work and keening singing may remind the listener of John Lee Hooker at times, but his strong, original songs ... and a hypnotic style that betrays his North Mississippi roots, establish him firmly in a class by himself."^[13] The Winston-Salem Journal determined that "it is impossible not to hear John Lee Hooker, Fred McDowell and Charlie Patton in Belfour's vocal phrasing and his delightfully eclectic guitar playing."^[14] The Commercial Appeal called the album "a tour-de-force of startling fortitude and timeless character that will have you envisioning Belfour contemporaries R. L. Burnside and the late Junior Kimbrough."^[10]

The Village Voice stated that, "with a voice cracking with the rage of the oppressed and cuckolded, 60-yearold Belfour is a silent sufferer who'd rather wallow than fight."^[15] The Chicago Tribune noted that, "even as fickle characters deceive, confuse and betray him, the singer maintains a melancholy dignity, his stoic voice exuding compassion even as the world he knows collapses around him."^[16] The News-Gazette deemed What's Wrong with You "easily one of finest pure Mississippi blues albums to emerge in years, if not decades."^[5] Knight Ridder considered it the second best blues album of 2000.^[17]