RL Burnside - Shake'em On Down

[wannatroll]

them burnsides...

play blues

talk blues

see blues

sweat blues

shit blues

pee blues

fart blues

burp blues

they even shave in a bluesy style.

[Thetasigmaman]

@Flammiedrum I know it's pretty stupid asking for classics like this but Ive been trying to play it for weeks and just can't get it

[Decatur7]

Love the raw simplicity and down home groove; got a good racket going on.

[Thetasigmaman]

Where can I get tabs for this version

???????

[Flammiedrum]

@Thetasigmaman

You don't need tabs for the blues, whats the matter with you?

[macanazo13]

REAL MUSIC!!!!!! 

[1blastman]

Fred McDowell would love this........

[teleevangelist]

RL had such a stinging guitar, sheoit, I so loved him, I'm crying that he's gone, but I celebrate his death, in ma life, may he live on forever in me/wynn richardson

[teleevangelist]

I so love how cedric beats it out, this kid knows tha beat, ^5this is ma favorite rl tune, him and cedric beats it out, tha dude on tha es-175 gibson ain't bad either/wynn richardson/baton rouge

[teleevangelist]

this is ma favorite rl tune, him and cedric beats it out, tha dude on tha es-175 gibson ain't bad either/wynn richardson/baton rouge

[sonofdisaster2]

@teleevangelist I'm pretty sure that's Kenny Brown. My dad was Mr. R.L.'s drummer and taught Cedric, believe it or not. This is my favorite, along with .44 Pistol.

[Polly6761]

@sonofdisaster2 I am just certain it's Kenny......Kenny and Ced are my friends and I keep up with 'em........although I have come back to Ok.....also my ex played a lot with RL, Kenny and Cedric, Junior...all of their families.........this is Kenny Brown, for my money........I got to sing with 'em too, several times.......I study this stuff

' cause i love it to my soul........no offense anyone......pure love here..........

[Polly6761]

@sonofdisaster2 check out "Rollin and Tumblin" from this same show..........it's Kenny big as the Mississippi

River............have mercy ! Saw Kenny and Ced in Greenwood, MS. doin the Mr. Robert Johnson 100th B-Day celebration in May........we visited.....did my soul good..........

[KazLovesMusic]

RIP ..RL...your legacy lives on through grandson Cedric (drummer) and so many more people worldwide

[coucmark]

Nah dude, bless the Black Keys for playing good style. Thank God they took notes and are at least trying to keep some semblance of real blues sound going during these musical dark times. And of course bless Burnside for sending his greatness down the line.

[metalmachineliar]

Black Keys stole this sound from the delta bluesmen and put their shit in car commercials to make a bunch of money. Fuck the Black Keys!

[specom]

@metalmachineliar Dude, I don't want to start a shit throwing contest, but do you REALLY think if a car company offered RL Burnside that money, he wouldn't have jumped on it in a hot second?

[youthXattack]

@metalmachineliar when the black keys were still actually playing blues like this they werent really makin money or gettin commercials. I mean shit whoever owns the rights to Wolf's music put it in a boner pill commercial.

I guess what i am saying is nothing is sacred we just have to deal with it.

[BongJuice1]

@metalmachineliar the past 3 black keys albums don't have much blues in them, they been getting big of those not the earlier albums which have a very influential R.L Burnside sound...

[multidimensional1]

y'all gotta hear Bukka White's version of this!I

[gageman70]

@multidimensional1 Yes y'all, listen to Bukka White-Shake em on down, then go listen to Led Zeppelin's Hats off (to Roy Harper). Thieves. Kickass thieves, but thieves all the same.

[mura869]

大変良い。



[xucishvilisaba]

One M0:00RE time Please ...

[debrabum]

And there's Cedric, cute thang.Yeah.

[debrabum]

And there's Cedric,  cute thang.Yeah.

[50torri]

SÅDAN

[seymourbbest]

Sabbath invented metal?yeah Right. There were bands playing metal before sabbath was even a band.check out early Troggs. That's just ONE pre sabbath metal band.

[runforurlife100]

damn man, i used to like this song. it's fuckin ruined for me now that i know i darky plays it. shit!!

[TheVoodooswampshack]

THIS IS IT!!!!!! THE WORLD NEEDS MORE OF IT!!!!

[RCAvhstape]

Rock and roll is a combination of country and blues, the white guys were mostly country inspired and the black guys were mostly blues based. It took guys like Hendrix and the British rockers to merge the two styles into what came out in the 60s with Pink Floyd (named after two blues guys) and Black Sabbath, etc. In fact, listen to Geezer's bass intro to NIB, it's a blues scale bass riff, Sabbath invented metal, and it was all blues based.

[teleevangelist]

I love this kid on drums/cedrick, I don't know how he do's it, but he does/wynn

[1hotga]

I love this music ,and RL really rocks !

[6t4eldo]

R.L. & Jr. Kimbrough were the REAL DEAL you hear me???

[throttle]

This man rocked Spaceland years ago. There was a line around the entire block full of people from every walk of life: punks, roots kids, asians, blacks, latinos, rockabilly's, gutter punks, yuppies and surfers.

It was amazing!

[4Polfag]

All time country classic

[40Rtruss]

That whole band is great that drummer is cools as hell!

[almister]

is this in the key of g anyone know i wanna play my blues harp to it thanks

[NettThistle]

@almister

it sounds like g blues. i'm not sure how it works with harp but it sounds good on guitar with a g minor pentatonic blues!

blow a few notes and you'll figure it out

[almister]

@NettThistle cool thanks man ill try it out

[teleevangelist]

gawd I love rl, his life is a book of stories, and I'm learnin em daily/wynn richardson

[micmoable]

GOTSTA LUVS DEM BLUEZ!!!

[infowazz]

this guy copies the Black Keys. lol

[goldstalkergpx]

@infowazz Get the timeline right, RL way before da keys.

Anyhow all great blues and down for the sands of time.

[infowazz]

@goldstalkergpx I was joking. even Elvis copied black musicians......

[ShotOfHennessy]

i live in kelowna b.c. canada and mr burnside and his music are the shit for my beach activities. Go R.L. GO

[ugnisgame]

awesome!

that rhytm beats the shit out if me

[Greenbotam]

Love RL! A true N. Miss. bluesman , and playing slide without Kenny Brown's help. Go for your bad self, Mr. Burnside....

[teleevangelist]

thanx kdwilent for sharing one of my favorite bleusmen with us all! Wynn RL used to play here in Baton Rouge at Phil Brady's Bar on Gov. St.

[maxxsmith]

Three generations of sincere hillstompers - hard to beat. I don't know a place in the world where they got music more right than in N. Mississippi. This is a great band. R.L. became a lifelong hero of mine about the first lick and a half to reach my ears.

[jasonwhiton]

great to see rl and cedric in this clip! i had a lot of fun chatting with these guys every time they came up to northampton mass. they really influenced my blues band at that time and ever since. thanks for posting (and a shout out to cedric!).

[faunoram]

cedric and kenny are the perfect company to rl burnside blues

rl burnside = genius !!

cheers!

[seiglerc]

sure am glad Cedric got the soul Big Daddy had...... Had the chance to vist with Cedric and Lighnin Malcolm, Couldn't meet more down to earth people than they are....

[stacybrooksmusic]

Yep that's Cedric

[inbredjed07]

Is that cedric?

[JboCapone]

black keys "busted" is R.L's 'skinny woman" RIP R.L. You are truly missed.

[Northwestguy65]

Vulpecula101...c'mon, take it somewhere else please.....

[copsondonuts]

wish black people made music this good all the time. what happened?

[Vulpecula101]

I'll tell you what happened.... White people... They own the labels.. sell the sneakers, guns and booze. Pimpin out the poisonous product to the poor people. As per usual.

[metalmachineliar]

Wish white people made music this good.... ever.

[forey86]

@copsondonuts i dont know why you got thumbs down. i fully agree with you

[lsunshine430]

Black Snake Moan with Samuel Jackson was based on my pa pa... n Ced n Kenny did play in the movie...

RIP "Big Daddy"

[sgthardass]

I had the good fortune of seeing him 6 months before his death. What a privilage it was for me.

God rest his weary soul.

[kdwilent]

Where do you think the Black Keys Got their Groove From?

[musicman02]

RL and Junior Kimbrough both.

[DevinMiller72]

@kdwilent and KM that was for Houdini, not you of course!

[beanepods]

@kdwilent i'm....sort of....speechless right now....i can't believe whoever the f houdini is posted that. dear god this country has got no soul....no soul.

[nikitawah]

@kdwilent right on

[vincynator]

Thanks to The Black Keys for introducing me to this wicked stuff

[nterry78]

@kdwilent

Junior Kimbrough.

[Cha5w]

@Houdini116

lol

[madgoldtop]

@Houdini116 way way older that the black keys

[mikevans666]

@Houdini116 Its Skinney Woman that Busteds taken fom

[MinisterofBrews]

@Houdini116 would be no black keys w/o RL

[DevinMiller72]

@Houdini116 are you fucking stupid? yes, i think you are. douchebag.

[Houdini116]

@DevinMiller72 First, that comment was made like 8 months ago, so calm the fuck down you stupid fucking elitist. Second, I may not have knew much about the Mississippi Hill Country stuff back then, but now I do, but seeing as your a keyboard warrior I guess it makes you feel better calling me a douchebag for no apparent reason? I'm not going to go down to your level and say, "I know more about tha BluEz than you dude!" Piss off POSER.

[DevinMiller72]

@Houdini116 oh jeez -- Awe, I must of hurt your little pussy from your ranting email you just sent. And you call me a troll? -- I'm not an elitist ... I love all great music .... I just don't like LA genre hoppers like yourself who insert foot into mouth and then get all defensive like the little bitch you are. I bet you have a nice trucker hat to go with your hill country collection ...

[gageman70]

@Houdini116 you think that sounds like busted listen to skinny woman by rl burnside off of the album acoustic stories. exact same thing.

[TheMuffiinMan254]

@Houdini116 'busted' sounds like this

[jathread]

@Houdini116 Busted is the riff from the RL song Skinny Woman.

[gageman70]

@Houdini116 you think this sounds like busted, go listen to the acoustic version of skinny woman by rl burnside...

[labalou]

im mona shake that modafucka down right now boy!!!!

[bgggbb]

That loos like the drummer and guitar player from Black Snake Moan.

[zappawizard]

that's them

[duececaboose]

never saw black snake moan, but the drummer is his grandson.

[taylor410ce]

was that a good movie? i've never seen it.

[taylor410ce]

that's them.......Cedric Burnside, and the guitar player is Kenny Brown! if you don't believe me than watch the credits at the end of the movie. by the way thanks for telling me about that movie i liked it a lot!

[bgggbb]

No prob! It's great movie for sure!

[spottedspot]

that's cos it is :D

[darksongs]

I watched some Blues Documentaries a few years ago. After that I was an R.L. Burnside fan and also Jr. Kimbrough. The others were enjoyable, but these two led me to looking for more music by them and putting some on my ipod also. Thanks for this.

[zuss10r]

Imagine the shit we would be listening to now if it wasn't for old black farmers sittin' on their porches in Mississippi, Alabama or wherever, drinkin' whisky and playin' slide guitar....the true Grandfathers of Rock 'n' Roll.

[clockworkmike83]

As I 've said many times before, not only does Rock owe its greatest debts to Blues, but heavy metal is DEFINATELY indebted to the original Mississippi Delta/Texas Bluesmen. From the roots of Led Zeppelin,Cream, Deep Purple, Yardbirds, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Mountain and Jeff Beck, to even the late 70s bands like UFO, Judas Priest, Ted Nugent. They all carved their sound from the blues. It's still heavily present in alot of today's metal/rock bands as well. We ALL owe a debt to them.

[geoReinecke]

@clockworkmike83 i dont want to sound like a jerk,but i think the style of music you are talking about i is called boogie,john lee hooker was probably the leading exponent of this style which is known for its fast offbeat rythim and its use of a repeated modal figure played on the bass strings of the guitar,called a'riff''

[clockworkmike83]

@geoReinecke Well no you don't sound like a jerk, and you're right to a lesser extent. The speedier areas of rock were definately inspired by guys like Duane Eddy, Eddie Cochrane, Bo Diddly, Buddy Guy and of course John Lee Hooker ( like you mentioned). But rock and roll itself , especially the lifestyle and attitude, owes a debt to the pioneering blues artists. But yeah man it's cool lol Good call out on the JLH by the way

[geoReinecke]

@clockworkmike83 (r.l. laughed his ass off when i played 'hot for teacher' for him,lol

utub deleted most of 1st post and all of 2nd took 3hrs + to write them because of

illness,the worlds loss haha-i knew and played with alot of theese dudes,serch

utub 4 Tav falco panther Burns madrid 1988,it says im dead,but i dont beleive it iol

george r.

[gunnydogs]

@zuss10r Imagine what we COULD be listening to if greats like RL actually caught the break that all these other no talent assclowns catch who end up making a mint.

[DeadPanicChic]

@zuss10r Yes Sir! and I'm proud to say I'm from Alabama!!

[Punorss]

Is that God?

[groovy65baby]

Ah R.L. I met him in SF on New Year's 1999. He was with Kenny Brown and they played for about 20 people in a side room while Chris Isaak and Wilco worked the bigger rooms. Man was he great! And just sat sipping whiskey at the break and chatting with us... it was amazing.

[groovy65baby]

Make that 1997. Oops.

[Bluesman471]

Chesapeake Bay Blues Fest . all over again. R.L. rocked the joint with Shake 'em On Down

[rosesredvioletsblue]

Alright, this is the blues! 

Fantastic.

[RobinTheSWED]

It's sad that there's no music like this in sweden ='( .it can't be any better than this great vid :D LOVE IT!

[TIMGTV6]

Great song! Any body got Asspocket of whiskey CD with John Spencer? Exellent record! It has a fine version of this song. Thanks so much for posting.

[HauntedGhostLady]

Had to be awesome to hear him live.

Thanks for posting.

[guttorocha]

excelent! you cant go deeper than this!

thanks a lot!

[hooverhasit]

this is my fav vid on youtube. just saw cedric and lightning malcolm and they are truly carrying on r.l.'s legacy. i asked them to play this for me and they tore it up. r.l. would be so proud. hope they win that blues award they are up for this year.

[mclaincausey]

I saw em last night. They are such great guys on top of the amazing music. This kind of music is one of the few things I really miss in my former home state of MS.

[dawgrogers]

i was lucky enough to see RL live on several occasions. he opened for widespread at memphis in may in 99 or 2000 and I left after he was done because that was it...nothing could have been better...everyone was in a trance the whole time he was on stage...

[SKVPC]

I saw that show. I don't know what year either. I lived in part-time in Amsterdam during that time, and was back and forth to Memphis area. WSP put it down also. Good times!!!

[BigPharao]

i wish i was there... but i was too young at the time. now i'm seventeen but look at todays music... there aren't too many great bluesmen around anymore. or are there still some?

[quebeker1]

I gotta be honest, never heard of the guy before.

But Damn that's good.

Thx Tensejed for posting a link to this clip.

[ettaj2]

wow this song is addictive. listen to it several times a week. need to get some of his albums. this stuff will put you in a trance,ha.

[Neustria]

The North Mississippi Allstars do a fine version of this also. But don't ask me which is better....

[dcddjc]

A GAS STATION FOR DD!

[hooverhasit]

this is the best version of this song out there. no one can touch r.l. on this one. cannot stay still for long with this one.

[sayyes2bull]

just 'cause you kill somebody, it doesn't make you a criminal. ha! the real crime here would be not to have great footage like this for all to see.

this sho' nuff is blues.

[RacerEckss]

Droooooll....

[LizzyDouglas]

In my archives I've lots of music from the northern hills of Mississippi: R.L.Burnside -T-Model Ford -Jr. Kimbrough - Paul 'Wine' Jones - Robert Belfour - Cedell Davis - 20 Miles - Elmo Williams - Johnny Farmer - Hasil Adkins - Robert Cage etc. with thanks to Fat Possum/Epitaph-Records from Oxford, MS. Wonderful & honest music from northern Mississippi with its own distinctive rythm, which sounds in my ears as 'trance music' !!

[madtiger111]

You didn't mention Fred McDowell. He was from TN, but he "claimed" MS in his stage name. Plus, he was the one who made this song famous.

Shame.

[jayfarmer]

Great as ever...

Check out T-Model Ford, Jimbo Mathus, Ron Hacker & Hacksaws, Taildragger, Watermelon Slim for more great raw and mean slide BLUES

[Dunderkladden]

that his grandson on drums ;)

[iluvmorrissey]

Rl Burnside and Seasick Steve r in my opinion the greatest ever blues musicians.

[gxcope]

Damn man....thx fr introducing me ti Seasick Steve...

Im blown away...

[clockworkmike83]

These old blues guys were absolutely kickass. They defined the whole modern day concept of rock n roll. They were mostly criminals, hard drinkers, fighters, and basically lived hard lives that came through on their recordings. RL Burnside in fact even killed a guy once, as did T-Model Ford. I love to hear them play, its always this gritty/chuggling sound that is just blatantly the basis of heavy metal if you dilute it down. You got to give it up to these guys, they are the godfathers of it all.

[hoffman845]

@clockworkmike83 haha yup, he did kill some1 and did 6 months for murder. His boss at the time pulled some strings to get his sentence short... When Burnside was asked about the murder he said, "I didn't mean to kill nobody ... I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head. Him dying was between him and the Lord." Burnside was a baaaadddddaaaaaasssssssssssss!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! R.I.P R. L. Burnside!!!!!!!!!!!

[clockworkmike83]

@hoffman845 lol hard to call it self defense when you pop a guy in the back of the head isnt it? Still he was a badass old man, just dont fuck with him lol

[hoffman845]

@clockworkmike83 hahahaha for sure bro

[comedyrules100]

@hoffman845 6 years was the sentence. His boss wasn't that much of a heavyweight who could get the guy a 6 month for murder deal.

[Paxmanite]

For all the world your polished up BB King's cant touch this grit...pure. unadulterated. blues.

[Bluesman471]

Reminds me of Chesapeake Bay Blues Fest Annapolis,Maryland 1999. That 2 day event was fantastic.

[neonbladedotcom]

That is so Good!!!

[mrdavidaaron]

cool version. bukkas is the sickest though

[cedereagle]

This is NICE !!!

[jifblumoon]

check out the North Mississippi Allstars remakes of his songs, they are my faveorite band because of po/skinny and this song. I think everyone should buy and listen to there live at Bonnaroo album "hill country review" - kinda preachy/spamey but thats just how I feel. the first two songs on there changed the way I play and listen to music.(they took that concert off youtube but i think its a dvd too)

[CharliePickett]

Oh my!!! Many thanks. BTW, I had always assumed the Kenny played the slide and RL played the hard drive.

[goodsirjava]

I'm very late for class because I can't stop watching R. L. Burnside videos

[corridorsofpower]

on the LP version I used to think he said "in my Bay Window" and with the trippy effects is very cool.

[slimfunkie]

yes he is the master of blues

[slimfunkie]

this is so original

[cruiserblue]

There is just something about RL that u carnt get out of your system

[slimfunkie]

YOU TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH

[sonofbruce2]

"Missipppi hill classic," my ass. Booker T. Washington White wrote that mother in 1937. With all due respect..

[kdwilent]

Yes! We Know that. We also Know the song was popular BOTH IN THE DELTA AND THE HILL COUNTRY (Missisippi Fred McDowell has a fantastic version and he is a hill country artist!) That makes it a classic!

[sonofbruce2]

Oh, all right.

[madgoldtop]

@kdwilent thank you

[geoReinecke]

@kdwilent hill country IN delta,delta run 350 mi down from tate county n.mississipi

to jefferson la.approx,hill country arund senatobia to mabye round yazoo city area

[trubolt]

@sonofbruce2 ummm, I believe they are referring to RL there brucester, not the tune. calm down and just listen to the magic

[delterbluesman]

I love the sound of the hills RL BRUNSIDE YOU ARE THE BEST !!!!!! ML Blue

[b4tankgirl]

Thanx for keepin' him alive! He inspires me.

[Naut]

great video.

[bluespower]

thanx man, real blues