R.L. Burnside News

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Kent Burnside aims to get you out on the dance floor. The soulful, rollicking Mississippi-bred bluesman all but dares you to kick back in your chair meekly tapping a toe or nodding your head to the beat when his band, Kent Burnside and The New Generation, rolls into Gilrein's on Saturday night.

Ted Drozdowski and his band the Scissormen have a serious appetite for the blues.

I caught most of the three part Memphis rock, blues and soul caravan that rolled into the Starlight Ballroom on Friday night, though I must admit I was absolutely dead on my feet in a post-Pedro-being-unnecessarily-being-pulled Phillies depression and couldn't hang for all of Lucero's raucous, horny headlining set.

$10. Here's a not-so-bold prediction: The Juke Joint Duo is about to blow up. For most of October, the North Mississippi bluesmen are hitting the road with Lucero and Amy LaVere, with stops in Nashville, D.C., Philly and New York.

As Michael Flanagan noted in this week's edition of the Memphis Flyer , one of the Mid-South's most unique traditions, the Turner Family Picnic , is slated for Gravel Springs, a rural outpost near Senatobia, Miss., this weekend.

The Paradise Theatre is happy to welcome back to the theater, Kent Burnside and The New Generation Friday, Aug.

The Paradise Theatre is happy to welcome back to the theater, Kent Burnside and The New Generation Friday, Aug.

When the blues-rock group North Mississippi Allstars invited various musicians to accompany them at a recorded jam session at Bonnaroo in 2004, Hill Country Revue became the name of that live album.

A bounty of live music ushers in the second half of summer in Madison. The calendar this week includes: Black Diamond Heavys, the Old 97's, Reverend Horton Heat, a "Spanish Nights" edition of COTS, The Bastard Trio, Lollipop Factory, Chimaira, J. Wail, and Backyard Tire Fire.

The North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic celebrates its fourth year with a lineup that celebrates the legacy of local blues legends including R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and Othar Turner.

The Fat Possum Records aesthetic, whether it pertains to rock groups like the Black Keys or blues artists la R.L. Burnside, champions primitivism over polish and rawness over refinement - which is why the music of Crocodiles belongs in the imprint's catalogue.

Blues fans are in for a treat this Wednesday as Memphis' Delta Highway will be gettin' down at KClinger's Tavern in Hanover.

Oct. 23, 2001 marked the much overdue release of a live full-length album from R.L. Burnside, titled "Burnside on Burnside." Decades of performing in rundown juke joints, county bars and private house parties for chump change and corn liquor are now immortalized on CD as R.L.'s live sound has finally broken the commercial music threshold.

ROCKLAND : The Monday Night Blues series at Time Out Pub, 275 Main St., continues 7 p.m. Monday, June 15, with Delta Highway.

Guitarist and singer Junior Kimbrough was one of the deepest of the deep bluesmen, like his colleague R.L. Burnside he came from the hill country of Mississippi.

Ia d love to say I was able to keep my promise and make it back out to the grounds to hear the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra share the stage with Three Dog Night, but unfortunately trying to walk around the festival Sunday only exacerbated the pain in my foot to near crippling levels.

Malcolm and Cedric. Photo by Jerry Colburn. FRIDAY 6/5 On the strength of a handful of performances at White Water in the last year or so, Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcolm have built a well-deserved reputation as THE blues act to catch in Central Arkansas.

While the North Mississippi Allstars are on hiatus, drummer Cody Dickinson and bassist Chris Chew are debuting a new five piece this week under the name Hill Country Revue.

Nick Hamstra, better known as Hambone, is 26 going on the Mississippi Delta, a suburban guy from Indianapolis who somehow manages to channel a bluesman from Clarksdale.