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Booray 09-01-2005 05:41 PM
R.L. Burnside dead at 78
 
Just found this out from another board. Did a search and found the story on rollingstone.com:

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R.L. Burnside Dead at 78
Legend's brand of Delta blues spoke to hard times

Blues legend R.L. Burnside died today, September 1st, at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He was seventy-eight.

Born in Harmontown, Mississippi, Burnside became one of the perennial forbears of the Delta blues, with his thick, rhythmic slide style and graphic lyrics reflecting his life surrounded by poverty and violence. Burnside, himself, did jail time for murder.

He learned the blues from neighbor Fred McDowell and played for years as a star attraction in ramshackle southern clubs (some of which he owned) before critic Robert Palmer featured him in the acclaimed 1992 documentary Deep Blues. The same year, Burnside signed to Fat Possum Records and released Bad Luck City.

During the Nineties, Burnside ventured off the track of traditional acoustic blues when he collaborated with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion on 1996's A Ass Pocket of Whiskey. The album brought Burnside a new audience of indie-rock fans.

"People are just now beginning to realize that the blues is the roots of all the music," Burnside told Rolling Stone in 2000. "That's where the music all started from."

Burnside returned to his musical roots and released six more albums, most recently 2004's A Bothered Mind.

He is survived by his wife and twelve children.
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quadro2000 09-08-2005 10:11 AM
"Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down" is one of my favorite songs. RIP.

Harry Cox 09-09-2005 05:26 PM
What a unique individual. I'm sorry I missed him the last time he played Dallas.

Unright 09-10-2005 07:40 AM
Sad Sad Sad...

I'm sorry I never got to see him live. A great bluesman finally gets to sit down in heaven.


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