Born near Oxford, Mississippi, in 1926, R. L. Burnside made a living on the farm as a sharecropper. At the age of seventeen he
takes up singing and playing guitar. One of his teachers was the legendary Mississippi Fred McDowell. R.L. s music has its roots in
the rough hills of North-Eastern Mississippi: a blend of hypnotic, almost mantra-like chords with the rhythm of the local Fife and
Drum bands, which has its source in Africa. In 1968 he made his recording debut, at the instigation of writer and folklore specialist
George Mitchell. In 1996 R.L. recorded A Ass Pocket Of Whiskey with Jon Spencer and became suddenly known worldwide.

Johnny Woods, also a Mississippi man, was born in 1917, in a small town called Looxahoma. His delightful harmonica playing is as much rooted in the single note of North-Mississippi Fife And
Drum band tradition as it is in the multi-faceted music of blues legends like Sonny Boy Williamson. Like so many bluesmen he had to wait until his early fifties for a breakthrough, when he was discovered by the same man who had given Burnside a break in the sixties: George Mitchell.

1. Poor Black Mattie
2. Rolling & Tumbling
3. Peach Tree Blues
4. Skinny Woman
5. Going Down South
6. I Believe My Time Ain't Long
7. Bad Luck And Trouble
8. Jumper On The Line
9. Ramblin' On My Mind
10. Gone So Long
11. Long Distance Call
12. 44 Blues
13. See What My Buddy Done
14. Poor Boy
15. Sneakers Jam
16. Somebody s Knocking On My Door
17. Poor Boy
18. Baby Scratch My Back
19. Poor Black Mattie
20. Long Haired Doney
21. So Many Cold Mornings
22. When My First Wife Left Me
23. Susanna
24. Jumper On The Line
24. Going Up The Country
25. Ain t That Just Like A Woman
26. Long Haired Doney
27. Moaning At Midnight

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