R.L. Burnside

The Black Keys Cover R.L. Burnside's "Going Down South"

PUBLISHED May 3, 2021

Dark denim-clad blues rockers the Black Keys are about to release their 10th LP Delta Kream. Before they drop it in full, they've shared a...

R.L. Burnside

A Bothered Mind

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2004

Given his recent health problems, this new album from the 71-year-old Mississippi bluesman comes as more than a pleasant surprise. Yet with...

R.L. Burnside

Mississippi Hill Country Blues

PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

You can stroke out those references to R.L. Burnside being discovered by Jon Spencer. Back in the late '70s, when Burnside's Stateside noto...

R.L. Burnside

Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2000

R.L. Burnside is among the last of a dying breed, namely a rough and tumble blues shouter with an unruly guitar out of the Mississippi hill...