Outnumbered, Outgunned

RL Burnside Passes

www.fatpossum.com

Its important that if your reading this blog, that you go see the Fat Possum website. A guy I know passed away.

I dont know where I met him, down south somewhere, maybe King Biscuit. But not a lot of people have touched me SONICALLY like his playing did.

He was one man. Drunk a lot of the time. Chasing the women. Knocking them up. Just being a human blues song. And amazing embodiement of the blues.

His guitar work was slow, rough, sloppy. Overdriven, loud. It was what I thought I had always wanted to see in a guitar. Just banging. Pounding on a guitar in a primal sense. Just pushing and pushing the instrument with no technical expertise at all.

Just making the noise that you need to hear.

It shook me.

The first album I heard was MR WIZARD. That crazy cover with a black man in wizard hat, with women on there knees around him. It was amazing. Then songs of sex, and drunkenness.

All primitive, like it was right here.

I am sorry your gone RL, no one in Wausau gets to see you now.

Posted by Radiofree at September 1, 2005 05:28 PM | TrackBack