R.L. Burnside & Johnny Woods - Telephone Blues

Mississippi bluesmen from the Hill Country, R.L. Burnside (guitar) and Johnny Woods (harmonica) performing Telephone Blues in 1984.

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• R.L.
• Burnside
• Johnny
• Woods
• Mississippi
• Blues

[dioisfreakinamazing6]

My Pappaw and I used to play together like this when I was a kid. He bought me a beat-up old Kay Archtop when I was thirteen. We'd sit on the hood of his Raggedy-ass Thunderbird in the Dairy Queen parking lot and play Fred McDowell and Howlin' Wolf tunes. One day a whole family of tourist white people gave us a tip and sat through like three songs. My Pappaw took a long swig from his bottle of Jim Beam and said (with young children present)."You white folks sure do eat this sh*t up."

[NeoTRP]

whoever posted this : may you attain nirvana! thanx a bunch!

[thesword77]

@Carthsgtr ..the idea of blues let alone delta blues has nothing to do with talent, these men tell there life story through blues. You're clearly missing the point of this genre of music...and to actually come to the conclusion that RL is racist is just..beyond retarded one of his best friends was kenny brown....a white guy, in fact he refered to him as his adopted son haha do your homework cheese tits before slamming something you dont even understand

[chiron8839]

@Carthsgtr - Nice set of stereotypes. How much time have you spent in the American south, or associating with blacks from any region of the US?

[Carthsgtr]

@chiron8839

The Brits have the talent, the Americans have the black people. For these southern black types, blues is for the guys without the talent to play jazz.

[chiron8839]

@Carthsgtr - Wit and power your pussy. Now go take your Midol and plays some synthetic blues.

[Carthsgtr]

@chiron8839

Don't preach your philosophical bullshit on me you old cunt. This sixteen year old commands more wit and power than you ever will. Telling me I am the uneducated one? Sounds to me as if the epitome of stupidity is killing someone in the 1970s and not getting away with it. What, did you literally walk his dead body in to the police station with you?

A keyboard warrior I may be, but I am not an idiot or a literal manifestation of moral spew like you or this man.

[chiron8839]

@Carthsgtr - Spoken like a true keyboard warrior who wants his blues sanitized. You, relative to me, are an uneducated prick whose only real motives for civility are privilege and fear.

[Carthsgtr]

@chiron8839

Too bad you had to take another man out before you could do that. The blues has always been sexist and is particularly racist against whites and various minorities in this form, although it doesn't usually get to me. This man on the other hand was an uneducated prick truly scrapped from the bottom of the barrel. He sounds like a modern 50 cent or Biggie, thinks the world revolves around him and his fucking retarded morals.

Fuck him and fuck you.

[chiron8839]

@Carthsgtr - Well go have a good cry about it, then. I'm an old man who got life for murder when I was a young man. I saved a lot of lives in prison, and have put more than an average man's share of good back into the world in the 22 years since I got out. I don't give a fuck what your punk ass thinks about any of that, and I doubt R.L would either. Jesus, what are you doing listening to blues music anyway if you've got a schoolmarm's tolerance for blood?

[SilverSkitterscuttle]

Even better, if that is possible, is Mr. Woods playing with Mississippi Fred McDowell. Like 1967, "Mama said I'm Crazy".