| LC control no. | no 97060937 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Burnside, R. L. (Rural L.), 1926-2005 |
| Variant(s) | Burnside, Rural L., 1926-2005 |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: Sound Machine (Musical group) |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1926-11-23 |
| Death date | 2005-09-01 |
| Place of birth | Harmontown (Miss.) |
| Place of death | Memphis (Tenn.) |
| Affiliation | Arhoolie Records, Inc. Fat Possum Records Matador Records (Firm) Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (Musical group) Sound Machine (Musical group) |
| Profession or occupation | Blues musicians Singers |
| Found in | Sound Machine groove, c1997: label (R.L. Burnside) OCLC, Oct. 17, 1997 (hdg.: Burnside, Rural L., 1926- ) New York times WWW site, Sept. 2, 2005 (R.L. Burnside; b. in Harmontown, Miss.; d. yesterday [Sept. 1, 2005], Memphis, aged 78; blues singer and guitarist who found fame only in his gray years, when his music was embraced by young rock fans and remixed with electronic beats) All music guide WWW site, June 8, 2006 (R.L. Burnside; b. Rural L. Burnside, Nov. 23, 1926, Oxford, MS, d. Sept. 1, 2005, Memphis, TN; blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter) African American National Biography, accessed January 2, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Burnside, R. L.; Robert Lee Burnside; blues musician, singer; born 23 November 1926 in Harmontown, Mississippi, United States; worked as a sharecropper on several Mississippi Delta cotton plantations; learned to play the guitar from legendary blues performer Mississippi Fred McDowell; spent six months in prison; attracted the attention of George Mitchell, who recorded him for Arhoolie label (1967); recorded songs on Vogue, Swingmaster, and Highwater labels; performed with his band, Sound Machine (1970s-1980s); Fat Possum recording label released his live album Bad Luck City (1992) and Come On In (1998); Palmer produced his first full-length album, Too Bad Jim (1994); recorded for Matador Records (1996); died 01 September 2005 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States) |
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