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R. L. Burnside (b. Lafayette County, Mississippi, November 23, 1926; d. Memphis, Tennessee, September 1, 2005) was a blues singer, songwriter and guitarist who lived much of his life in and around Holly Springs, Mississippi. Lafayette County is a county located in the state of Mississippi. ...
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City nickname: MemphisTenn The River City or The Bluff City Location in the state of Tennessee County Shelby County, Tennessee Area - Total - Water 763. ...
State nickname: Volunteer State Other U.S. States Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Governor Phil Bredesen (D) Official languages English Area 109,247 km² (36th) - Land 106,846 km² - Water 2,400 km² (2. ...
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Holly Springs is a city located in Marshall County, Mississippi. ...
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He played music for much of his life, but did not recieve much attention until the early 1990s.
Biography
Burnside was inspired to pick up the guitar after hearing the John Lee Hooker 45 "Boogie Chillen" (which inspired numerous other rural bluesmen, among them Buddy Guy, to start playing). He learned music largely from Mississippi Fred McDowell, who lived nearby in an adjoining county. He also cited his cousin-in-law, Muddy Waters, as an influence. John Lee Hooker John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1916 – June 21, 2001) was an influential American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. ...
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Fred McDowell (January 12, 1904-July 3, 1972), called Mississippi Fred McDowell was a singer and guitar player of delta blues. ...
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1915 – April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered the father of Chicago blues. ...
During the 1950s Burnside moved to Chicago where a number of members of his family were murdered; after these killings Burnside returned to his home state. Burnside claimed to have been convicted for murder and sentenced to six months' incarceration for the crime. Burnside's boss at the time reputedly pulled strings to keep the murder sentence short, due to having need of Burnside's skills as a tractor driver. // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning...
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His earliest recordings were made in 1969 by George Mitchell and released on Arhoolie Records. Another album of acoustic material was recorded that year and little else was released before "Hill Country Blues," in the early 1980s. An album's worth of singles followed, released on ethnomusicology professor Dr. David Evans' Highwater Records label in Memphis, Tennessee. 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...
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City nickname: MemphisTenn The River City or The Bluff City Location in the state of Tennessee County Shelby County, Tennessee Area - Total - Water 763. ...
The Oxford, Mississippi, label Fat Possum Records was founded by Living Blues magazine editor Peter Lee and Matthew Johnson, and was dedicated to recording aging North Mississippi bluesmen such as Burnside and his friend Junior Kimbrough. Burnside remained with Fat Possum from that time until his death, and usually performed with his friend and understudy, the white slide guitar player Kenny Brown, whom he claims as his "adopted son." Oxford is a city located in Lafayette County, Mississippi. ...
Fat Possum Records is record label operating out of Oxford, Missippii. ...
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In the mid-1990s, Burnside attracted the attention of Jon Spencer, the leader of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, touring and recording with this group and gaining a new audience in the process. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (sometimes abbreviated JSBX) is a New York based band, made up of members Jon Spencer (vocals, guitar), Judah Bauer (guitar) and Russell Simins (drums). ...
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (sometimes abbreviated JSBX) is a New York based band, made up of members Jon Spencer (vocals, guitar), Judah Bauer (guitar) and Russell Simins (drums). ...
Since the death of Kimbrough and the burning of Kimbrough's juke joint in Chulahoma, Mississippi, Burnside quit recording studio material for Fat Possum, though he did continue to tour. After a heart attack in 2001, Burnisde's doctor advised him to stop drinking; Burnside did, but he reported that change left him unable to play.
Members of his large extended family continue to play blues in the Holly Springs area: grandson Cedric Burnside tours with Kenny Brown, while grandson Duwayne Burnside plays guitar with the North Mississippi Allstars (Polaris; Hill Country Revue with R.L. Burnside). Duwayne Burnside and the Mississippi Mafia recorded Live At the Mint in in October 1997. Members included Cedric Burnside, Eddie Batos, Joe Hill from Alien Ant Farm, and David Kimbrough, Jr. (JR's son) with Duwayne's father R.L. sitting in on a few tracks. Duwayne and Mississippi Mafia's newest release expected out in March 2005, was recorded at Delta Studios in Clarksdale, Mississippi featuring James Mathus, rhythm guitar (Squirrel Nut Zippers), and Roy Cunningham on drums (Stax Sessions), Garry Burnside, bass guitar. In 2004, the Burnside sons opened Burnside Blues Cafe, located 30 miles southeast of Memphis at the intersection of U.S. Highway 78 and Mississippi Highway 7 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. North Mississippi Allstars is a country blues band from Oxford, Mississippi. ...
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Clarksdale is a city located in Coahoma County, Mississippi. ...
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Holly Springs is a city located in Marshall County, Mississippi. ...
Burnside had been in declining health since heart surgery in 1999, and died in a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee on September 1, 2005.
Style Burnside had a powerful, expressive voice and played both electric and acoustic guitars (both with a slide and without). His drone-based style came not from the Mississippi Delta but instead the North Mississippi hill country. Like other country blues musicians, he did not always adhere to 12- or 16- bar blues patterns, often adding extra beats according to his preference. He called this "Burnside style" and often commented that his backing musicians needed to be familiar with his style in order to be able to play along with him. Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, or downhome blues) refers to all the acoustic, guitar-driven forms of the blues. ...
He also knew many toasts (African American folk poems such as "The Signifying Monkey" and "Tojo Told Hitler") and frequently recited them between songs at his live concerts and on his recordings. Toasting, chatting, or DJing is the act of talking or chanting over a rhythm or beat. ...
Selected albums - A Ass Pocket of Whisky (1996, featuring the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion)
- Burnside on Burnside (a critically acclaimed 2001 live album recorded in the Crystal Ballroom on Portland Oregon's Burnside street)
- Come On In, Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down, and A Bothered Mind (three albums of remixed material, often featuring guest artists, released in 1998, 2000 and 2004, respectively)
- Too Bad Jim (A juke joint classic produced in 1992 by Robert Palmer.)
- Well, Well, Well (Songs and interviews from 1986-1993, released in 2001 on MC Records)
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (sometimes abbreviated JSBX) is a New York based band, made up of members Jon Spencer (vocals, guitar), Judah Bauer (guitar) and Russell Simins (drums). ...
For information on the popular 20th century British vocalist by the same name, see Robert Palmer (British singer). ...
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