RL Burnside 9-2-78

[@2hard2knock]

My musical journey brought me here. Anyone else here in 2024? 🎸

[@os36jjtwdjdjd]

yeah))

[@hipolie]

from Russia with love

[@vicaster8479]

yeahh! peace for all and long live music

[@hipolie]

@@vicaster8479 Forever

[@nickwebber9729]

Yep

[@tremwmalaka]

i love how youtube randomly decided to recommend this masterpiece to so many of us after 10 years

[@thedonofthsht76-58]

Right!?

[@benallmark9671]

Lol , no shit eh. Like WTF

[@reblsound]

Saw this when it was first uploaded ❤❤, what a treasure!

[@raymondiguanachopkihuffyu8391]

Amen!!! Timeless Roots, Deep Down and out!!!

[@arlenvandersmagt5560]

I know right? Does anyone know how that happens… and if you say the “algorithm “ then tell me how it works!! Ffs

[@mercoro]

Man i hate so much how youtube is flooded with modern "blues" stuff, that souless blues made for corporative people to use in their commercials, the stuff i love is like this, a man in the middle of nowhere, with the ambient noises merging with the music and the singing, no professional setup, just his guitar, his amp, and his voice, the rest is pure magic. Thanks for the person that filmed this video, and for the person that posted it, i hope this video reach 1 million views one day. This is music, with actual soul and essence put into it.

[@tudore_jams]

The modern blues is there cause everything else in blues has been done. You want some guy in 2024 in a field with a guitar? It's been done.

[@coleallen2989]

@@tudore_jamsdon’t have to fix what ain’t broke. Blues has departed from what it once was… is that an evolution of the blues? Whatever people think it’s just opinion… classical music exists and people still play it exactly like it was yet it’s all been done before.

[@debomb721]

@@tudore_jamsdoesn’t mean they have to replace it with something soulless

[@Sinistralitee]

This is what the blues is about, just a man, sitting in some field, guitar in hand, crickets and children screaming in the background, this is what the genre is about.

[@AntwhaleNearfar]

That’s Ray cist. “I like my bluesmen broke and living in the backwoods”.

[@AntwhaleNearfar]

Put a 4/4 backbeat to this and it’s funk.

[@mimori.com_]

Electricity required

[@AuthenticCelestial]

​@@AntwhaleNearfartrue. beautiful setting all the same.

[@jtjwhite]

🎯

[@JohnSmith-zc9do]

This shit is so outstanding. I could listen to it all day.

[@artrogue4150]

i do.

[@marekryszard]

Likewise, bruh 🙏

[@caseybarnett8708]

To have video of this is almost unbelievable . this man must have been highly regarded.

[@BrianCarnevaleB26]

@@caseybarnett8708 collected dust for years-

[@lukenovotny5638]

Fnnn hey

[@richcherwalk6349]

This guys sense of rhythm is like nothing I’ve ever heard. His guitar is syncopated hypnotic and right on the very edge of sounding wrong and then his voice is smoothly flowing over the whole thing. Incredible!

[@brutallyremastered4255]

Bo Diddley?

[@matthewwalden656]

Like Son House 😊

[@BrianCarnevaleB26]

You can see in his smiles that he really loved to play, a modest man, but so raw as mentioned.

[@hippydippy]

The way it should be. The blues that's sugar coated ain't the blues!

[@autumnsphere7581]

His smile is one of the most beautiful

[@Rastinkohl]

Technique has nothing to do with blues and jazz

[@Rastinkohl]

​@@hippydippyyes agree my way of playing. Technique has nothing to do

[@JacquesDupondTV]

​@@autumnsphere7581somehow reminds me of disneys goofy. Love his relaxed somehow showy in that good way. Leafy.

[@paulsnider9208]

Johnny Cash once said that the rhythm of his music was heavily influenced by the rumble and the chug of railroad trains passing by in the night. You can really hear that influence in R.L.'s rhythm guitar style as well, don't you think?

[@mikew3959]

that's awesome!

[@slanigrad]

R. L. Didnt grew up with trains around. As kid, while working in the field, rhythm sections use to roam the roads. With that big bass drum, smaller ones and some wind instruments. As kid he felt he would love to do that. I learned this from that documentary about hill countr Mississippi blues. Peace

[@Chris-is1rd]

Southern Blues artists have been saying that for decades before Cash said it

[@vancarter3736]

I’m from the hills of Mississippi I play guitar and I’m influenced by the rails also

[@kennethwashington3919]

Yes

[@abelhgarciajr5622]

This is what the world lacks. Enjoyed your playing Sir. Thank you

[@scdl-o2i]

정말 놀랍다...최고중최고다. 열악한 환경에서 뮤지션이 나오기란 로또보다 어렵다....

[@rickjensen2833]

He's got the mojo. He's playing percussion, bass, rythm, lead, at the same time and maximizing the sonic capabilities of that amp. ❤

[@Porsche996driver]

🎯

[@MDNQ-ud1ty]

lol... he's also got two chords... which is two more chords than you.

[@rickjensen2833]

@@MDNQ-ud1ty punk, ha ha.

[@wechsler151]

Met him in Birmingham Alabama circa 1999-2000 after watching his show at The Nick. He did his level best to take my girlfriend at the time home- Couldn't fault him for it. Awesome show and a great showman. RIP RL..

[@lga9046]

No costume, no over done production, no branding, no auto tune, no sponsors, no masters

[@Sandpiper439]

And only one 🎤

[@holykarl]

But a Nice shirt

[@DreamDosage]

Yep… true talent does need the extra BS

[@madgepins1967]

Ugh, be quiet, hipster.

[@montebradshaw128]

Well said...thumbs-up

[@Therecouldbehope]

A $9 guitar, a $20 amp, sitting in a field - using $100 worth of recording equipment, MAKING THE GREATEST RECORDED MUSIC IN HISTORY. That is what we are witnessing right here, right now. God what a GENIUS R.L. Is.

[@fredsalter1915]

Agreed. Total gold. He's not super talented, not super fancy, not super technical, .... yet his sound scourges the soul!!!

[@jimmypennell8831]

5 dollar bottle of booze😅. What could be better

[@yakdelrio5734]

Y además...en un solo tono

[@joshuaschmidinger3993]

But that voice 🤯 wow 👏

[@Slingin_Bait]

There's no chance the video camera was a hundred bucks...

[@albertarseneau848]

Awesome, love the smile. Just happy to play and be heard

[@starshineraiser6729]

Whoa, that’s crazy. He’s incredible. Those pawn shop guitars have so much soul, and in the hands of RL, end of.

[@johnotis6764]

Burnside was the greatest post-modern innovator of electric blues. The music just flows from his fingers. And that voice ..oh that voice. It got that swamp blues built right into it. Some folks are just born for what they do.

[@wizardaka]

I think I need to listen to a lot more of this kind of music

[@johnotis6764]

@@wizardaka Check out Junior Kimbrough and the artists on The Fat Possum label. 90's-early 2000's Fat Possum material is fantastic. Also Lightnin' Hopkins, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, and the guy whose name escapes me who recorded Bright Lights, Big City, and Big Boss Man.

[@victorsvideos27]

Check out Roy Rogers, not the cow boy, but the guitarist. You don’t have to be Black, or poor, or a sloppy untrained untalented player, or a criminal to know the blues. Your heart and mind together brings your ability to your hands and mouth for perfection of the sound that moves your feet. That’s the Blues, that perfect beat in perfect time, putting peace in our souls!

[@CurtisClinton77]

The Blues comes out of the experience of Foundational Black Americans under conditions of White Supremacy. Once you separate it from THEM, it is NOT The Blues anymore.

[@CurtisClinton77]

The Blues comes straight out of the experience of Foundational Black Americans under a Racist System. Once you separate it from them, it is not The Blues anymore.

[@paliki]

The roots of almost all the music of the past century and nowadays. Just music, no posers, no bullshit.

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

His right hand is possessed. R.L. was truly the last of the great bluesmen. This one performance alone puts him up with the best of the best. Rumour has it his foot went on stamping for days after he died. The kid ended up drumming with him I think?

[@ScottBellar]

His whole body is possessed. A demon is singing through him. Welcome to blues music. Juke joint voodoo in motion. Jim Morrison knew this well growing up in Washington DC and used ancient spirits and the devil to sing through him. Listen to "Been down so long" off the LA Woman album.

[@theuniverseinstereo3453]

This is the real American experience.

[@roamakes]

Legit

[@harmlesscreationsofthegree1248]

2:46 the baby in the background cries in key, the kid feels it too...

[@luccasacheli7132]

my god. that is profound

[@JacquesDupondTV]

PRO ear

[@PortsmouthCherokee]

Dang yeah that baby was singing it's heart out

[@NicholasKlacsanzkyICM]

Hypnotic and enchanting music from the Buddha-like RL Burnside.

[@montebradshaw128]

Man that kid has some funk! Love it great piece of history, thank you for sharing . dig Mr RL.... ❤

[@faunoram]

RL Burnside and JR Kimbrough both reinvented the blues in our time ! i think we are so lucky to have these video and audio documents !! cheers !

[@valerycharles6007]

Heu…it’s mississipi Hill country blues. You have other bluesman creating this genre

[@jorgegrada963]

Me too, I think it. (Sorry for my english, i'm mexican)

[@marcofernandes5896]

Weird why this guy never went mainstream back in the day !!! his sound was BRILLIANT !!!

[@thelight888]

is.....is

[@Baghdadbatterymusic]

He got some recognition in the 90's up to his death. Not as much as he deserved though

[@gnarzan8943]

Because he was a full blown alcoholic. Son of bitch spent most of his most of his cash on booze

[@JacquesDupondTV]

You said it. Dirt a brilliant show man.

[@chrispfeifer7628]

The music industry ripped off and flat out stole music and rights to many black musicians. Hell look at Elvis. He made millions from music written by black musicians who couldn't get on the radio, or TV shows. Cuz white Americans wouldn't allow it. Now, many want to forget how America treated the black community. Hopefully someday we'll reconcile with our past atrocities and actually move forward

[@TRicKyDicKy93]

There's something I get from watching this video that I can't put into words...

[@Thespoonpeddler]

Right Violence I know what you mean!

[@steveopc81]

A pure expression of country blues. Heavenly.

[@TharpaD]

This is the roots music of roots music. I can watch R L over and over. Check out 'Poor Black Mattie" as well for the way he inflects the lines and waits for the forth line in every verse. I've never seen a blues player do that, and it's brilliant!

[@toddbrooks2464]

Shake 'em on down good 'un too

[@joace8575]

This is the best thing KZbin has sent me in a very long time!

[@seadragonadventures]

Life before screen addiction. Beautiful.

[@cirimaxg651]

It's true.

[@lottoflove3455]

i have screen addiction because of this

[@mickthemerciless9694]

The kid on drums ' got feel and time. 😊

[@Bob-zs3ro]

Wow bless ma Soul that boy can play drums Better than, the so called pros, ❤❤❤thay kids Groove. Beautiful. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅😅.

[@TM-cy2zl]

Awesome footage of the Mississippi Master at work, beautiful, thank the Lord for Alan Lomax, R.L blows me away

[@gepmrk]

I saw him in Sydney in 1998. Kenny and Cedrick were with him. They were unbelievable.

[@mikekaatman3194]

Lucky dog you!

[@erics.9175]

Died in ‘85?

[@FYMASMD]

@@erics.9175ever heard of google? 2005 Beevis. 🙄

[@johnwilkinson8018]

2005 rip ​@@erics.9175

[@SpringHolder]

Thanks!! From Russia - with LOVE!

[@wormcloud9603]

fantastic. one of the most important blues recordings from the 70s

[@jeff7764]

No it isn’t

[@PhillisThompson-b7f]

Man that background looks peaceful ❤❤❤😊

[@mickthemerciless9694]

But note the irony with the barbed wire fence.

[@standardengineco.7428]

13:47 proud father, his kid is rockin' it

[@barristanselmy2758]

If i had a favourite song it would be, RL Burnside - See my jumper hanging out on the line.

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

@Imagineth Ha ha...My thought. Don't keep us in suspense, if you had a favourite song? ha ha haaa

[@TharpaD]

If I had 2- it’d be this and ‘poor black Mattie’ off Too Bad Jim

[@Whitman1819]

no doubt

[@jacktoddy9783]

What a wonderful voice.

[@JamesThompson-us1mk]

Beautiful awesome Very cool, voice sounds very Hendrix like. Could listen to this guy all day. Great

[@fireonmytarget8937]

7:56 - he ripping off queens of the stone age?

[@jamo8739]

A MASTER! This guy's kung fu was fuckin STROOOONG!!!!!!!!!

[@Imhalfamazing2U]

Thank you for uploading this video. True greatness.

[@user-mv7to6kt8j]

@8:14 that little kid in the background is deep in a blues trance. he got his first taste early!

[@joelfernandes5638]

lol.

[@flyfishjones]

Raw, American, Beautiful.

[@Aminharp1]

+flyfishjones The spirit is 100% west African

[@Pravo13]

+Amin blues and that's the beauty of blended cultures.

[@willfeen]

at 2:40 the baby was right there with him … “Lord Let Me Go To Bed 😫😫😫” except instead of the “white lightning gone to my head” it’s too much “milk gone to my head” Lord bless that baby he’s already a little screaming blues singer

[@arnogoossens9892]

Thank you so much Alan Lomax for documenting this...

[@PhiI93]

Bom chicka bom du bom chicka bom du bom chicka bom du bom chicka bom du

[@mikew3959]

lol yes

[@barristanselmy2758]

That's it!

[@user-md5yq4lp3f]

f2cking yeah brotha !!! :)

[@marcstoneslade]

fast and bulbous!

[@jackramey3456]

Priceless footage. And those kids at the end. Wow.

[@davekalbach2015]

The kid has "Got It" as well! Cecil Burnside has somehow created a modern day version of RL like no other. The "farther" music is supposed to be going only makes me go back, and back. I think RL used AutoTune, no? If atirtine had any value it'd be to make singers sing imperfectly & extraordinarily real, that's my dream.

[@firdausHITMAN]

RL was the man. Shame I never got to see him live.

[@chaisehombre7723]

+STRATMAN firdaus I did...and it was grrrrrreat! One of the best nights of my life.

[@firdausHITMAN]

CHAISE HOMBRE Wow

[@dingalarm]

Which amplifier is he using? It could be homemade, judging by it's appearance. And I couldn't see a power cord, so I'm assuming it's battery powered. It sounds clean, so it's probably a solid-state amp! 👍👌👏👏😎🥳

[@kileyroofing2490]

I love his guitar n the way he approaches it That kid on the drums is awesome He can tell when RL is gonna change too Great stuff Recorded on my 11th birthday 🍀💚

[@PortsmouthCherokee]

This is a national treasure

[@JeanLeite-d1e]

WOW, thank you so much for this!!! A piece of history!

[@mickthemerciless9694]

What a strange wah wah sounding guitar. Great rhythm. Genuine blues singer.

[@dougsmith7083]

what a hellaciously epic groove - RL hypnotizes and draws you into the fire

[@Plubob_McHabblefluffin]

Wouldn't it be neat if professional musicians were like this again?

[@CodyTheGuitarist]

I've genuinely never heard of this man until yesterday, but I've watched this 5 times already. Jumper on the Line is SO groovy. I'm definitely gonna be coming back a lot, his sense of rhythm and groove is astounding.

[@melodymakermark]

5:40……muscadines on the vine. My grandmother used to make wine with them. A north Mississippi treat.

[@willfeen]

What a voice !!

[@guydreamr]

Awesome music and awesome family life too. RIP RL

[@Raiderfn31]

Best blues I've ever heard. The concert with Winters was Epic also.

[@jacobseraphin685]

I clicked because of the thumbnail, I was hoping it was a video rather than just a cover art, I am very pleased.

[@TharpaD]

He isn’t IN the groove, he IS the groove. I have a screenshot as wallpaper on my phone from this of him smiling in this , and like a year later it’s still there. Peace

[@tugbutker1951]

Kid on drum is sick too!

[@apancher]

My god, the amount of soul you can hear in this man's voice is amazing

[@FUNKYTRIPUNKY]

That's what I call a document! Real life hero.

[@claytronico]

Always loved his breaks. No over-complicated turnarounds. His acoustic album, Mississippi Hill Country Blues, or something like that is a jem. These cuts are are rough. The long close ups are painful. Pretty sure most of this stuff is in open G, or that shape at the least.

[@jah-ir]

Olha o batuque dos moleke no final! 👍🏼👏🤘🔥

[@clydewhite2773]

I had a guitar just like that back in the day. All that it takes is a cheap rig and something to say . People will listen to you .

[@racefaceec90]

i have to admit that i don't listen to much blues music but i like this for sure.

[@johnnymcdingus465]

That is one funked up axe. Looks like he's got something on the first fret to give it a sitar buzz, or in his hands, a southern twang.. He's getting the slide sound without a slide.. And that right hand technique is somethin else.. Like clockwork, and the tone is killer.. And all on cheap ass sears catalog gear, as if to tell all the tone junkies out there "hey, while you were fiddling with knobs all day, chasing the tone dragon with 10 different guitars, into 10 different overdrive pedals, into 10 different amps, through 10 different pairs of speakers.. i was getting good at guitar".. Don't get me wrong, I love crazy psychedelic sounds and Kevin Shields as much as the next guy.. but no amount of pedals or jazzmasters will get you any closer to the sound this guy could get out of a cigar box guitar and a portable radio if necessary.. then again, you couldn't do something like Loveless with this guy's gear.. But there's a certain beauty/charm in simplicity, and this is a textbook example.. 1 guitar, 1 chord, 2 hands.. All ya really need.. If ya can't make do with those, best unplug that cable and get yer ass back in the woodshed.. or alternatively, on a bucket in the rural backwoods.

[@dallassurfersclub8872]

Awwww yeah man, this is a good jam. Rhythm on point. I like it.

[@EspritSoif]

One of the Greatest of all time for what regards blues music, as simple as this. But not lucky enough to get the English usual show business angels take care of him... as they did with many not so talented other cats...

[@NelsonSwampWorldTour]

Let's give the cameraman some, too. This is shot masterfully.

[@melodymakermark]

11:05……now I know where Billy Gibbons got the opening riff for LaGrange.

[@ThomasSmith-if5bp]

The KZbin has introduced me to so many artists I’ve never heard of and I am LOVING it. This is great music right here.

[@dodgedandle8311]

Where did he plug in ?, he’s in a field, ? … Makes me Laugh, all these Cats today got all these expensive guitars, Amp, Effects Units ext ext, and they still can’t sound like the real thing and this Cat just IS the real thing, just goes to show you either got it or you ain’t and R.L. got it and some more, Man had a great inbuilt metronome, all them old blues cats did, at times in this footage his guitar sometimes even sounds like an old upright piano INCREDIBLE they had to be able to DO IT..PROPER MOJO ., Thanks for the footage magical Stuff 👊😉🌞⭐️

[@bartolocasanova]

Oh my that jam with his son, fucking cream yah know!

[@almister]

Grandson cedric burnside

[@ArvidDarmond]

If this was really recorded on the date the title says, Cedric Burnside would have been one week old.

[@almister]

I have no idea how old he is. Well I guess you are right, my bad it was an assumption on my part I will admit.

[@jacobbrinkley5832]

Always loved RL. For those of you who enjoy this, check out Roy Buchanan Backyard Jam. Same kind of vibe with playing at home for the family. Give some love to one of the greatest unknown guitarists, much like Danny Gatton.

[@darylcumming7119]

The annoying advertisements can't break the spell of the music. It lives and breathes on its own.😊

[@erichold1984]

Wish i had gone to see him , he played small clubs in New Orleans in the mid seventies . Unfortunately i didn't know who he was and there was little or no press for him . I did get to see Snooks Eaglin though who had a similar but more frantic picking style .

[@nikolaylvov5811]

Так бывает. Когда кайфуешь сам от того что делаешь. Кайфуют и другие кто слушает. Это ракета!!!

[@pawz007]

One of the few things that are authentically American

[@CastlesMadeOf...]

I'm back again....can't get enough of this!

[@i-tiyahman6519]

Can’t deny Blues is Black

[@riabossuyt7149]

After hopping from clip to clip on You Tube, before sleeping, it mostly ends here : the REAL and GENUINE BLUES !

[@jimedenbaum2525]

Sitting on a bucket, no socks. Cheap gear. Kicks ass...

[@enyaratna]

Is that white piece of something under the strings before first fret a mute of some sort?

[@enyaratna]

Ive educated myself and can say its probably a string rising insert for sliding technique.

[@keithrowell9808]

It can't get any better than this simply amazing

[@NemohHoes]

How does he power that amp? Is he sitting on a generator?

[@6adagio64]

this is fucking amazing

[@etiennemiemczyk7081]

11:26 la grange

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

R. L. Burnside (November 23, 1926 - September 01, 2005) 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.

[@petersweeney5870]

this will always be great

[@ViajeporelMundo]

1978, black man, fender, playing in a field...this is my video

[@joecummings762]

I never understood why RL never got the recognition he deserved. His music is 10x better than BB King or Muddy Waters and more raw. Only Robert Johnson comes close... though RL will always be the king of Blues!

[@lucaschaka5324]

BB king is a very different style tho. Also RL said his highly influenced by Muddy

[@ratbird3290]

he came after.

[@ganderstein3426]

He had that John Lee Hooker feel and sound. That's a good compliment.

[@guidorollard2944]

Now, ain't that cool ! look at that litlle guy 12:18 , he's got rythm!

[@heyumma]

Cedric Burnside