The guy at the beginning of the video is spot on!❤ My parents both grew up during the Depression, they always said it didn't matter what skin color you were? Because everyone was broke and struggling!

2:26 "You keep playin, I'm gonna go in the back and gamble" Beautiful!

I met him once in Oxford Mississippi I tryed to buy him a drink I just wonted to pick his brain over playing music I play myself and I'm from Mississippi he didn't won't a drink he said deer season starts tommarow and I thought that was amazing.

I know those guys. I worked with R.L. between 1981 - 1994 touring all over the U.S., and Europe even Martinique an on a couple of R.L.'s CD's mostly pre Fat Possum, and sat in with R.L., Kenny, and Cedric in '99 a few times. Lived with R L., and his family summer 82 for 11 weeks. Kenny stayed with me in Holland when lived there. They were sure fine days. RIP R.L. Best luck Kenny

Incredible, I love the blues

Guy at the beginning is full of horseshit, I've seen plenty of whites play and sing the blues. 👌

This is the America I grew up with, never heard anything about racism until 2008 when Obama decided he wanted to relive the civil rights movement in the 60s. Us country folks judge a man by his actions not by the color of their skin.

What’s this from , video seems newer then lomax’s recording of burnside

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listen folks Kenny and RL may be one of the most underrated Blues musicians ever... I'm a big-time fan RL rest in peace and Kenny keep stroking it ... your legendary

RL should have taken some of the money he made from Fat Possum and got some dental work. About all those choppers would have been good for was eating corn on the cob through a picket fence.

You people are so gullible. Every time he tells this story, he tells it differently. If you want the truth about what happened, the last person you go to is Burnside. He'll just tell you another story.

Blues music has no color barrier!!!

Dude was lucky, I would have tortured the prick for days.

oh my god those veins in his arms. a dope fiends dream right there.

2:12

that white cat is cool

U BLOW MY MIND

R.L ''I didn't mean to kill nobody ... I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head. Him dying was between him and the Lord'' Cold ass lived a hard life were murder was more common unlike today.nothing justifies killing a man. this song is his own interpertation of 'skip james hard time killin' blues' his father 2 brothers and his uncle was all murdered within the same year on seperate occasions. in away 'what goes around, comes around'. neveraless this i love R.L

yeah everything is realted on this earth

Great interview.

Theres a whole lot more to this story, a black man in the south kills a man in the 60s or 70s and gets 6 months? Theres a whole lot more to this if one man can beat the system I would prefer it be RL.

Fellas from Mayberry don't deserve the right to be blessed by such sweet melodies,... GO RL ,... GO...!

Golly Beav,.... Eddie says you were real sour with RL....

Bottom line is,...... RL is the man,....... stories tend to grow taller with time,.... if you were there,... cast your opinion i suppose,... but thats one Hell of a Blues Man,.... and hey,.... lets all face it ....... we've all been on both ends of a solid ass whoopin'..... someone has a knife n u got a gun..... think 'bout it.... ,.... we elect mass murderers into OUR Government for christ sake but I don't see anyone not using dollars out of a "solidarity statement" I fckn luv the guy,...

I love how many people see that he killed a man, told the story in a laughing manner, & they say he is "the man". Badass, sure. But idolizing a man for murder over a dice game? Fuckin' idiotic.

@moopadoopolus i was thinking the same thing...but never walked in his shoes. Still,.I would need to hear the whol story before making a judgement.

or "You don't know my mind" depending on the album

The song is called "Laugh to keep from cryin'"

Does anyone know the date of the picture at 2:19?

Know what happens to dumb asses? They mess around and get shot, R.L. is the man son!! A true Legend of Blues.

Music UNITES.. always will.

@Nightshots The human race, according to any book on anthropology in any library came from ONE central area..Africa through the Middle East...so we ARE all related whether we like it or not. This is why we should all settle our differences. Peace. Kenny Brown is great, BTW.

@itsnotinthisbox ISNT IT?

Man, he's not a nice guy. I will never look at his music in the same way.

Hey what is this off of? is there a dvd or something that this was on? I'm a huge RL fan so i would really appreciate if you could let me know :)

i saw this on PBS a couple of times. theirs an earlier documentary called Deep Blues that features R.L., Jr. Kimbrough and some others, check it out if you like this.

Is this from "You See Me Laughin?"

judge:"r.l., did you shoot him in self-defense?" r.l.,"naw sir, i shot him in the leg and, he jumped the fence. hahaha!"

that house party footage is incredible.

I met/talked with RL and Duwayne. They're two of the nicest people I've ever meet. Had to listen carefully...thick accent. Nice family ya got there.

RL's a gunslinger.

Me too ! Thank you so much . I loved my vacation there and having you and the Burnsides and Miss Garrison teach me Hill Country blues guitar style ! I will never forget it !