It’s not hard to imagine seventy-three-year-old bluesman R.L. Burnside kicking ashes up off the floor of some old Mississippi juke joint when you hear his latest Fat Possum album, Wish I Was In Heaven ...

Some perceive R.L. Burnside, the great Northern Mississippi singer-guitarist who plays traditional Delta blues with sludgy rock ‘n’ roll spirit, as a reluctant guinea pig for producers’ electronic ...

North Mississippi Allstars celebrated their 20th anniversary last year, with the Dickinson brothers – guitarist Luther, drummer Cody – hitting the road for a victory lap of cross-country shows. Along ...

Blues veteran R.L. Burnside, who experienced a late career renaissance after being rediscovered by Fat Possum Records in the 1990s, died today in a Memphis hospital. He was 78. By Billboard Staff ...

Mississippi bluesman R.L. Burnside will on Oct. 23 release his first live album, dubbed "Burnside on Burnside," via Epitaph-distributed Fat Possum Records. Recorded in January in Portland, Ore., and… ...

Mississippi hill country blues is a style of music that has been kept alive on front porches and in bars across the southern United States. Musician Cedric Burnside is preserving what his famed ...

The blues singer and guitarist R.L. Burnside was unknown until he was 65 years old. In 1991, following an appearance in the documentary film Deep Blues, he recorded a series of albums which were ...

At the June installment of the 2023 Pine Bluff Blues by Budweiser concert series, Kent Burnside, the oldest grandson of the legendary R.L. Burnside, made an appearance at RJ's Sports Bar & Grill at ...

Cedric Burnside and Lightnin’ Malcolm seem to personify the platonic ideals of the Delta blues. Burnside explains that he was raised alongside “eight or nine” other children in a two-room house deep ...

R.L. Burnside, 78, a Mississippi blues singer whose rough, roguish life was reflected in his raw songs about violence, sex and hard luck, died Sept. 1 at a hospital in Memphis. No cause of death was ...