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Foot Hill Stomp

Oct 9, 2007
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I made mention of R. L. Burnside a couple of posts ago. I have since learned a couple of his tunes and found some YouTube vids of him playing. Consider this a long over due Musical Wednesday thingy. I'm also including a video of Junior Kimbrough and Jessie Mae Hemphill, two more North Mississippi Blues superpowers.

R.L. Burnside - Poor Black Mattie

These two videos are from 1984.

R.L. Burnside - Long Haired Doney

This is Junior Kimbrough in his juke joint. The whole thing looks like some kind of awesome Voodoo ritual. The sexuality is such that you could probably cut it with a knife.

Junior Kimbrough "Sad Days, Lonely Nights"

Jessie Mae Hemphill, I don't know a ton about her, but I love this tune.

Jessie Mae Hemphill - You Can Talk About Me

Again, having this whole primal sub-genre of the blues spring up just a couple of hours from where I was born makes it all much more tangible. This isn't your structured, predictable and distilled 'white-folks' blues that only comes in 12 bars sets and uses only three specific chords. It's much more organic, chaotic and plumb nasty. I couldn't love it more

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