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R.L. Burnside - When My First Wife Left Me

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Uploaded by on Jun 25, 2007

Mississippi bluesman R.L. Burnside performing When My First Wife Left Me, in 1984. Offstage comments by Johnny Woods.

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  • You sit here watching him play and while you are listening you think how amazing it is the way he is playing. Then he looks up and smiles. You realize how much fun he is having. Thank you Lord for the talent you gave him

  • this is fucking magical

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  • @WolfeCoBen Then you look at his eyes and see how "blue"he really was.

  • @WolfeCoBen wow.. well said man.

  • john lee hooker wished he could have played like this

  • @eldorado62 JLH was a big influence on him - I'm surprised they never had the chance to play together

    RL and Woods' "acoustic stories" version of this song is plain haunting (as is JLH's original)

  • He sounds a bit like early John Lee Hooker.

  • hes started hitting that good lick on them strings and started smileing!!,,lol,,it was feeling pretty good to him,,!!!

  • @quovadis1952 ,,right on bro!!!,,hes picking the fuck out that guitar,,but you know most all the old time black folks could pick like that it just wasnt too many got world recognition just only around their community,,its dang good too see this good stuff!!!

  • How can an amazing guitarist like this not be on the best 100 list??? What a fucking injustice. This man is so good and so original there are no words to describe it. He's the closest thing to guitar God...Thank you for everything Mr. Burnside!

  • F U C K I N G B R I L L I A N T

  • all these amazing notes on an epiphone. amazing.

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