Blues legend R.L. Burnside dies

[Dogmudgeon]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/01/burnside.obituary.ap/index.html

He was from the Mississippi Delta.

Who would be surprised if watching the debacle on the delta was the last heartbreak Mr. Burnside was able to endure?

Here's the First Four:

NEW YORK (AP) -- 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 Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. His health had been declining for some time, said Matthew Johnson, owner of Burnside's record label, Fat Possum.

A sharecropper early in life, Burnside wasn't recorded until his 40s, and didn't become a professional musician until 1991, when he was signed by Fat Possum.

Popular with younger acts like the Beastie Boys and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Burnside remained, as Johnson once said, "incorruptible because he just doesn't care."

Good-bye, Mr. Burnside. I hope the line into Heaven isn't too long today.

--p!

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. Well that fucking well sucks.

R.L. was making good records up till the end. Not many of his kind left. :(