Blues musician RL Burnside dies
Reuters
Mississippi blues musician RL Burnside died recently in a Memphis hospital at the age of 78. Emerging from obscurity in his 70s to become a cult icon among the rock n'roll aficionados, his albums featured a rhythm-based guitar sound, punctuated by his droning voice where he would regale young fans with his trademark phrase, "Well, well, well."Burnside farmed the hill country of northern Mississippi for most of his life. He also played in juke joints. "I did a lot of singin' on plantations when I was plowin' mules, " he told Pulse magazine in 1996. Burnside issued his first album in 1967 and toured sporadically. He achieved wider attention in the early 1990s thanks to the documentary, Deep Blues, produced by British rock star Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics and journalist Robert Palmer.
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