R.L. Burnside “Georgia Women/Four Women”

R.L. Burnside “Georgia Women/Four Women” 45 rpm, 1996. Sympathy for the Record Industry. From the album “Mr. Wizard” (1997) on Fat Possum/Epitaph.  Drone-heavy, stripped down, forward moving legitimate northern Mississippi blues (he killed a man at a dice game in the 1950′s: “I didn’t mean to kill nobody. I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head and two times in the chest. Him dying was between him and the Lord”). Burnside (1926-2005) first recorded in 1967 but it wasn’t until the mid-90′s that he gained widespread attention with the documentary “Deep Blues” and a tour and recording collaboration with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion on “A Ass Pocket of Whiskey” (1996). Burnside is cited as an influence to not only JSBX but also the Black Keys.