R.L. Burnside - Poor Boy Long Ways From Home

[Jarmo60]

hypnotic

[mperorjamez]

Wow! That was a face melter! Aw shit ?!!

[MrSixstringjohnny]

strumming pattern: boom, boom, boom chicka boom...

[iliekliek]

I turn on the the radio only to hear about some piece of shit claiming to be like a g6, this is music.

[gageman70]

goes to show you dont need a thousand dollar guitar to make damn good music

[Jarmo60]

so simple ... so damn GOOD!

[mojochessclassics]

why dont they just put stuff like this on primetime tv slots

[AndrewWLandry]

@mojochessclassics That's what I've been thinking for years!

[thelordnick]

A Blues God right here. R.IP. R.L.

[BlisterOnTheMoon]

I like how he looks around while singing

[themostBenofall]

@woodyboley its a blue tradition to take other artists songs and put your own spin on them. i dont know how you could know fat possum rec's and not know enough about the blues to know that. look at any blues album ever. at least one song will be a cover

[ronkopald]

Fucking Burnside was raw ore. Motherfucker could PLAY. Well. One of my favorite guitar players EVER. Long live slash and drone! That shit's so hard to do!!!

[zabba312]

@ronkopald SLASH AND DRONE? Never heard that term! I fuckin' dig it. My term now.

[jjdnow]

just amazing!!! music you can feel to the bone

[BigAndo21]

Dan Auerbach really nailed this style. He slowed it down a little like Junior. And he used that line in The Moan.

[themostBenofall]

@BigAndo21 its acctually a mix of Moanin' at Midnight by Howlin' Wolf and poor boy. listen to moanin at midnight the main riff in The Moan is right in there

[BigAndo21]

@themostBenofall

Actually I was talking about the lyrics, but good call man. I've never been a big HW fan but I respect him.

[JojahBoy]

whooooooooooa no no nooooo!!!

[Freakfolker]

SavantSvant.... try listening to it and playing it before you go to bed, and just when you wake up, listen and play it again! You'll learn it faster!

[metalmachineliar]

This guys hands were probably like fucking iron from all the workin he did. Can't decide who's better, him or Junior Kimbrough. Love em both.

[SavantSvant]

trying to learn that strumming tech, it's hard as a mother fuck.

[bensmith3200]

Who needs to change chords when you're funky like R.L. Burnside? Good luck, my brother.

[SavantSvant]

@bensmith3200 Thanks, proberbly take me a year or so more to master it. :)

Good luck too you to!

[slideharp1]

@SavantSvant ..'it's all in the forefinger'...hah!...fantastic­, heavy Earth soundz from RLB.....a f***** Master, when he gets into this reel style, unique touch with something simple...Like Miss. Fred McD. Who else can sound like these guys?..too much

[LTmattYT]

@SavantSvant mos def bro

this cat be off the hook with how he be bein all like percussive and melodic and shit on us asses

[tinpanalley67]

@SavantSvant Nothin' hard, man.

[jfc999]

@SavantSvant I just tried to do it too and couldn't get the syncopation. It's more confusing if you watch him do it. Just amazing.

[SavantSvant]

@jfc999 Go speak to tinpanalley67, he came with some interesting input on RLs strumming.

[dantean]

@SavantSvant It may not sound it in any obvious way, but John Lee Hooker's boogie beat was a HUGE influence on R.L. and his music, so if you listen to, say, "Boogie Chillen" by John Lee it helps get this rhythym down a little easier.

[rmgj]

God Almighty¡¡¡¡¡, a true gem and a national treasure, shame it had to be the Dutch the ones to take the respectful measure of filming him.

[shiambles]

Mooi!

[rmgj]

Hey, I love the dutch, one of my best youtube friends is Dutch, cheers and all the best¡¡¡¡¡

[shiambles]

One thing I have to admit, Americans are the best in preserving the blues.

[rmgj]

shiambles, they do that now, they developed an interest in the blues in the broadest sense of the word when the young british musicians started to make hits out of the blues songs, BB KIng has said so, Muddy Waters did also, before that blues musicians were almost always on hard times and not very much apreciated.

[GOYA551st]

Why preserve it when it's alive and kicking?

[shiambles]

@GOYA551st

Yes,this realy is alive and will never die,glad though the old stuff is available

[LeandroMuntendam]

@rmgj: as a finishing touch........God created.........THE DUTCH! (me icluded LOL)

[50porcierto]

BIIIIIIIIIG master!!

your fan,

boli

[adeart7]

he's using the same melody as jumper on the line

[checkraisedbywolves]

thanks for this and all your other great posts....many in my fav list

[jonnyjamesblues]

Hes playing in standard tuning ... no open tunings here ...

[JojahBoy]

thanks!

[vinnyhernia]

He plays this song in the opening of Alan Lomax's "The Land Where Blues Began"

[JojahBoy]

i know this is open G but is his low D string tuned differently? I cant seem to get the same sound for some reason.

[kentuckuh]

I believe he plays it in standard tuning, vamping on an E minor chord (that he makes by bending his index finger at the joint). He might be tuned down a step--I had to tune it down a step to get it in my vocal range.

[mcob1]

I agree it is in g, but a half step one way or the other is no sweat

[JojahBoy]

really really wanting to find the dvd or wherever this came from. If you could point us guitar players in the general direction so we can watch this in slo mo on our dvd players it'd be much appreciated!!

[JimitriG]

I am pretty sure the same recordings from whatever this is from are on the 'mississippi hill country blues' album. so listening to the songs with better sound might help. As for where these videos are from I have no idea, but I'd really like to know.

[raveyard]

Swingmaster Video #4 recorded in Groningen the Netherlands, in the back of the record store; Swingmaster

[LeandroMuntendam]

@raveyard: dat meen je niet. hier in de stad? GVD waar dan?

[raveyard]

Ja zeer bijzonder,Ik ben ze eeuwig dankbaar. Swingmaster zou eigenlijk meer credits moeten krijgen,hebben blues mannen opgenomen als oa.Big Boy Henry,James Son Thomas,Albert Macon, Henry Townsend ea.

achter de Stadsschouwburg

Swingmaster,Kruitlaan 21 Groningen.

[vrv1020]

I loke his acoustic material so much better than his electric. These songs are so much more expressive.

[JimitriG]

i concur. his acoustic stuff is so damn good to listen to, his first recordings are awesome.

[rexswindoll]

did this come from a dvd?

[Cldfsn0200]

Can't help but to notice this guy has the most expressive eyes I've just about ever seen on any human being ever!

[norrised]

why remove some master piece like those...they want to keep use in ignorance ... so so so sweet in my ears

[peglegsam]

so nice to see you back, they removed some of my posts as well