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Burnside (1926) became hip at the age of 68 when he started releasing records on the Fat Possum Label. This label roams the Mississippi area in search of authentic blues artists and has built up an impressive catalog. Burnside later gained a lot of publicity through his collaboration with the alternative rock band Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. The blues of RL Burnside most resembles the country blues… of John Lee Hooker. We also hear influences from Muddy Waters (his most loved exclamation: well, well, well !!) and Robert Johnson, especially in Kenny Brown's excellent slide guitar work. Burnside does not play smooth blues but an angular and bumpy variant in which there is improvisation on powerful, repetitive riffs. This underbelly music comes into its own in a sweaty steaming pub and the live album Burnside On Burnside captures this atmosphere in a great way. Burnside shows that this archetypal form of raw blues rock in 2001 has lost nothing of its original impact. (MS)more
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