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 ...

R.L. Burnside, the son of a sharecropper who spent 40 years as a musician before his raw, edgy blues sound brought him fame far beyond his Mississippi hill country roots, has died. He was 78. Burnside ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Black Keys have released a cover of blues musician R.L. Burnside’s song “Going Down South,” the second single from the band’s upcoming album Delta Kream. “That was one of R.L. Burnside’s hits! We ...

Cedric Burnside heard hill country blues from his grandfather, R.L. Burnside, also known as Big Daddy. As a youth, Cedric toured with Big Daddy playing drums in his band and with elders Junior ...