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R.L. Burnside - Blues Singer, guitarist (1926 - 2005) Hailing from the hill country of northern Mississippi, R.L. Burnside was a genuine exponent of the droning, rhythmic guitar style characterized by its vigorous performance. R.L. Burnside was born in Layfayette County, near Oxford, Mississippi in 1926. As a young man R.L. moved North into the neighboring Marshall County and began sharecropping. Inspired by John Lee Hooker's '50s hit "Boogie Chillun'," R.L. began singing blues and playing guitar. In addition to the Hooker 45 rpm there were other local forces that influenced R.L as well, such as Mississippi Fred McDowell and Ranie Burnette. Fed up with the hopelessness of sharecropping, Burnside migrated to Chicago in hopes of finding economic opportunity
Ryan Lee Crosby, Kent Burnside and Garry Burnside: Blues As A Way Of Life
by Doug Collette
The eternal appeal of the blues lies in the attraction it holds to successive generations of musicians and music lovers. And such connections are not necessarily grounded in blood relations, as is the case with Kent and Garry Burnside, but also in the bonds of mentorship as with Ryan Lee Crosby: while there are more than ...
Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience 2024
by Geoff Anderson
Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience 2024 Aspen, Colorado June 20-22, 2024 The Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience returned this year with 20 acts performing over the course of three nights in various venues around downtown Aspen. JAS has been sponsoring two festivals (or “Experiences") each of the last several years. The June ...
Cedric Burnside at Globe Hall
by Geoff Anderson
Cedric Burnside Globe Hall Denver, Colorado May 31, 2024 It's raw. And it's real. Cedric Burnside is no poseur. He is the Hill Country Blues. He's lived it. He grew up in it. Cedric Burnside's version of the blues is as authentic as it gets. Grandson of Hill Country ...
GA-20 at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge
by Doug Collette
GA-20 Higher Ground Showcase Lounge South Burlington, Vermont December 10, 2023 Entering Higher Ground on the way to its Showcase Lounge, it was impossible not to think of Elmore James' blues classic “The Sky Is Crying." A relentless if not torrential rain that began mid-afternoon may have kept away some ...
April 2022: Get Out Of Town
by C. Michael Bailey
Kristina Koller Get Out Of Town Self Produced 2022 Youthful, vibrant, and musically precocious, vocalist / composer Kristina Koller answers her two previous recordings: the gracefully insurgent Perception (Self Produced, 2018) and frankly anarchic Stronger (Self Produced, 2019) with the intensely focused Get Out Of Town, devoted to a dramatic ...
Live From Birmingham: Benjamin Booker, Grey Wolf & Blondie
by Martin Longley
Benjamin Booker O2 Academy September 6, 2014 Usually, audience demographics are spread closely in line with the age of a performer, but such things were not predictable at Stateside bluesman Benjamin Booker's gig. Although born in Virginia, this 25-year-old singer/guitarist now dwells deep down in New Orleans, adopting many ...
Beale Street Music Festival 2010
by C. Michael Bailey
Beale Street Music Festival, Memphis in May 2010 Tom Lee Park, FedEx Blues Tent, Memphis, Tennessee May 2, 2010 April, indeed, may be the cruelest of months, but I doubt that a blue-blood like Thomas Sterns Eliot ever spent the sweaty seasons in Hell that are Spring and Summer in the cultural ...
Billy Jones: The Urbanization of Delta Blues
by David King
It's a long way from the rich, fertile delta lands of North Little Rock, Ark., to the Netherlands, where Billy Jones records for Dutch blues label Black and Tan Records, but it was a route of which he never lost sight. Born into the segregated south, he was exposed to the driving beat of the blues ...
Raw Electric: 1979-80
Label: Inside Sounds
Released: 2002
Track listing: My Woman Done Left Me/ You Don’t Love Me/ Dust My Broom/ Pretty Woman/ Last Night (I Lost the Best Friend I Ever Had)/ Slippin’ and Slidin’/ Going Down South/ Rolling and Tumbling/ How Many More Years/ Well, Well, Well/ Leave Me and My Woman Alone (Friend of Mine)/ My Baby Caught the Train (Who’s Been Talkin’)/ Scrambling For My Shoes (Walking Blues)/ Sitting on Top of the World/ Searching For My Baby/ Going Away, Baby/ Jumper Hanging Out on the Line.
