R.L. Burnside News

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.

The Ten Foot Polecats don't just play the blues; the band performs "Electric Gut Bucket Whisky Swilling Boogie," its take on the North Mississippi Hill Country- and Mississippi Delta-styles of music pioneered by Mississippi Fred McDowell, Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside and others.

Nothing Black Keys singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach does is obvious. He's a 29-year-old dude from the suburbs of Ohio who, with drummer Patrick Carney, cut his teeth playing ancient hill-country blues in the vein ...

In 2009, if somebody is churning out a raw strain of blues or R&B with live instruments - and they have a thing for sounds that pre-date disco - they're probably either: young, white and British; 65-plus, ...

Luther Dickinson, left, Chris Chew and Cody Dickinson - join the Hill Country Revue for a show at 9 p.m. Sunday, Jan.

Kent Burnside & the New Generation The Mill, 120 E. Burlington St. Today, 9 p.m. Kent is the grandson of northern Mississippi blues legend R.L. Burnside, and he and his New Generation cook up a sprawling revue ...

The story of award-winning vocalist Janiva Magness' rise to the top of the blues world and beyond is a testament to the redemptive power of music and the human spirit.

Under the tutelage of grandfather R.L. Burnside and fellow North Mississippi players Otha Turner and Junior Kimbrough, Cedric Burnside learned at a young age that you "Don't Just Sing About the Blues." You ...

The North Mississippi All-Stars began 13 years ago in the small, Mississippi town of Hernando.

Drummer and vocalist Cedric Burnside comes from a long line of great blues musicians.

Eclecto Groove Records recording artist Jason Ricci, along with his band, New Blood, will perform at a New Year's Eve Party on Wednesday, Dec.