R. L. Burnside (November 23, 1926 – September 1, 2005) was an American Hill country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist.

R.L. Burnside is a truly original blues artist and an American treasure. He hails from the hill country of North Mississippi. And in the hills, they play a different style of blues - pulsating, hip-thrusting, single-chord, groove blues. No eight and 12-bar I-IV-V progressions with a turnaround here. It's all about the groove. Hill-country blues

R. L. Burnside (born Robert Lee Burnside, November 23 1926 - September 1 2005) was a blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist who lived in Holly Springs, Mississippi. He played music for most of his life, but did not get popular till the 1990s.

In the early 1990s R. L. Burnside became an unlikely star of the blues world, largely the result of a unique marketing strategy employed by his label, Oxford-based Fat Possum Records.

2018年6月27日 · Guitarist R.L. Burnside became a pivotal figure on the contemporary blues scene during the early 1990s after more than 40 years as a musician. His albums on the Fat Possum label, including Bad Luck City in 1991 and Too Bad Jim in 1994, created a raw, edgy blues that purists loved.

Legendary Bluesman R.L. Burnside: A Modern-Day Folk Icon Rise to Fame. In the decade leading up to his passing, R.L. Burnside emerged as one of the most celebrated and successful blues artists in the United States, selling hundreds of thousands of records.

2005年9月2日 · R.L. Burnside, one of the last, great Mississippi bluesmen, whose raw, country blues was discovered late in his life, has died. He was 78. Burnside died Thursday morning at the St. Francis...

2005年9月2日 · R.L. Burnside, a blues singer and guitarist who found fame only in his gray years, when his music was embraced by young rock fans and remixed with electronic beats, died yesterday at a...

R.L. Burnside (23 November 1926 – 1 September 2005) was born in Oxford, Mississippi and was a sharecropper, truck driver and part time musician. He gained music fame late in life,...

R.L. Burnside. Soundtrack: Footloose. Blues guitarist R.L. Burnside was born in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1926. He learned how to play the guitar while watching Muddy Waters and Mississippi Fred McDowell play at various house parties held around the Mississippi Delta.