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    R. L. Burnside

    American singer and guitarist (1926–2005)

    R. L. Burnside was an American Hill country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He played music for most of his life but received little recognition until 1995 when Burnside recorded and toured with Jon Spencer, garnering crossover appeal and introducing his music to a new fan base, particularly in the punk and garage rock scenes. Wikipedia

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    R. L. Burnside (November 23, 1926 - September 1, 2005) was an American Hill country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He played music for most of his life but received little recognition until 1995 when Burnside recorded and toured with Jon Spencer, garnering crossover appeal and introducing his music to a new fan base, particularly in the punk and garage rock scenes.
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    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. He was born on 23 November 1926 in Harmontown, Mississippi, north of Oxford, and from age seven to seventeen lived in Coldwater with his […]
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    R. L. Burnside was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He played music for much of his life but received little recognition before the early 1990s. In the latter half of that decade, Burnside recorded and toured with Jon Spencer, garnering crossover appeal and introducing his music to a new fan base in the punk and garage rock scenes.
  5. 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. Later he went out on his own and made the rounds of Delta "juke joints", where his unique percussive style of guitar playing ...

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