Fat Possum recordings have been in my collection for ages. I think all the old blues guys in the movie are dead now. Great movie. Could've lived with Bono.
Great doc. Saw it a few months ago. This is the blues. Forget haunting mids, HRM, and diminished scales.A great documentary for anyone to see who thinks that blues is about 10 minute, million note guitar solos!
Fat Possum caught the tail end of true roots blues & thank goodness they did.
I consider it a blessing that I got to regularly see RL & Junior while living in Oxford. There is no better feeling than catching a buzz and dancing with a pretty woman to some hill country blues. Fun times...
I used to have a live recording from Proud Larry's in Oxford of RL, Kenny, Cedric and a Japanese bass player that found his way from Okinowa to Potts Camp MS and started playing with Kenny. He couldn't speak English and Kenny called him by some random name like Yoshi or something. That recording was clean and RL and Kenny were on fire. The best part of the recording was the beginning of the first set. The house music was up in the mix a good bit and had a real funky beat behind it. Cedric picked up the beat and Kenny jumped in with his slide and they jammed a good 8 minutes before RL even got to the stage.
The very first time I ever heard of RL Burnside was while I was still in high school in Columbus back in like 94 or so. RL played a blues night at local kick ass restaurant in West Point MS. I swear to God he drank a half gallon of Jack Daniels straight throughout his set. His flask was a toy baby doll that had a container of some sorts rigged inside of it. The head would screw on/off.
I actually played bass quite a bit behind a more obscure Alabama blues man by the name of Willie King. He lived across the line over in Pickensville AL. Willie and I got pretty tight. He passed on a few years ago.
Hill Country Blues, where the I iV V don't mean a ****ing thing.