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The album was recorded in part by Matthew Johnson, at Lunati Farms, in Mississippi, and by Rob Schnapf and Tom Rothrock, at Bongload Custom Records, in Los Angeles. [5] The Los Angeles tracks were recorded live and without overdubbing. [6] The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion backed Burnside on two tracks. [7]
Im Zuge seiner Zusammenarbeit mit Jon Spencer erlebte der alte Blues-Heroe eine richtige Renaissance. So tummelte sich verstärkt die gesamte BLUES EXPLOSION auf Burnsides letzter Platte Ass Pocket Full Of Whiskey".
A Ass Pocket of Whiskey is the seventh studio album by the American Mississippi Hill Country Bluesman R.L. Burnside and the American punk blues band Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, released on Matador Records on 18 June 1996.
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1926–1959: Early years
Burnside was born in 1926 to Earnest Burnside and Josie Malone, in either Harmontown, College Hill, or Blackwater Creek, all of which are in the rural part of Lafayette County, Mississippi, near the area that would be covered by Sardis Lake a few years later. His first name is given variously as R. L., Rural,[n 1] Robert Lee, Rule,or Ruel. His father left the family early on, and R. L. grew up with his mother, grandparents, and several siblings. He played the harmonica and dabbled with playin...
1960–1990: Part-time musician
He spent the next 45 years, not unlike his early years, in Panola and Tate counties, in northern Mississippi. At first he kept to particularly remote dwellings, working into the 1980s as a sharecropper growing cotton and soybean, as a commercial fisherman on the Tallahatchie River, selling his catch from door to door, and as a truck driver. Later he moved closer to Holly Springs. After coming back to Mississippi, and especially after marrying, he picked more local gigs, playing guitar in juke...
1991–2005: Commercial success and declining health
In the late seventies or early eighties Burnside was introduced and struck a partnership with Junior Kimbrough. Roughly a decade later, his own "Burnside Palace" had shut down[n 9] and the family lived next to the Kimbroughs' new "Junior's Place" in Chulahoma, Mississippi and collaborated with the counterpart musical family. The music writer Robert Palmer, teaching for a time in the University of Mississippi in Oxford, frequented the scene with some celebrity musicians, which led to the makin...
Burnside had a powerful, expressive voice, that did not fail with old age but rather grew richer, and played both electric and acoustic guitar, with and without a slide. His drone-heavy style was more characteristic of North Mississippi hill country blues than Delta blues. Like other country blues musicians, he did not always adhere to strict 12- o...
Studio albums
1. Sound Machine Groove(1981) 2. Plays and Sings the Mississippi Delta Blues(1981) 3. Mississippi Hill Country Blues(1987) 4. Skinny Woman(1989) 5. Bad Luck City(1992) 6. Too Bad Jim(1994) 7. A Ass Pocket of Whiskey(1996) 8. Mr. Wizard(1997) 9. Acoustic Stories(1997) 10. Come On In(1998) 11. Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down(2000) 12. A Bothered Mind(2004)
Live albums
1. Mississippi Blues(1984) 2. Burnside on Burnside(2001)
Compilation albums
1. Going Down South(1999) 2. My Black Name a-Ringin'(1999) 3. Well, Well, Well(2001) 4. Raw Electric(2002) 5. No Monkeys on this Train(2003) 6. First Recordings(2003) 7. Rollin' and Tumblin': the King of Hill Country Blues(2010) 8. Long Distance Call(2019)
Honky Tonk (1974), by Tav FalcoThe Land Where the Blues Began (1979) by Alan Lomax, John Melville Bishop, and Worth Long in association with the Mississippi Authority for Educational TelevisionDeep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads (1991), directed by Robert MuggeHill Stomp Hollar (1999), by Bradley BeesleyDessier, Matthieu (2006). The Real Deal: Experiencing Authenticity in the Music of R.L. Burnside. M.A. thesis. University of Mississippi. OCLC 82143665Smirnoff, Marc, ed. (2008). The Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas.7. Nov. 2010 · Jon Spencer, of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is on guitar and theremin while Judah Bauer holds down the second guitar on two cuts. All of these musicians are powerful in their own right and likely candidates to accompany the likes of our Mr. Wizard."
Mit Jon Spencer nahm er 1996 das Album A Ass Pocket of Whiskey auf. 1991 war er in dem Dokumentarfilm Deep Blues von Robert Mugge zu sehen und zu hören. 2001 erhielt er den Living Blues Award als bester männlicher Blueskünstler. 2004 trat er zusammen mit den North Mississippi Allstars beim Bonnaroo-Festival auf. Das Konzert wurde auf CD veröffentlicht. Seine letzte Platte
1997. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CD release of "Mr. Wizard" on Discogs.
