R.L. Burnside - Goin' Down South (Official Audio) 

Goin down to the river by McDowell is where he stole the riff! Still love rl burnsides version

@@ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ecWait whut

@@Ida-Adriana burnside was a huge McDowell fan. McDowell was a musician from a previous generation. Rl burnside was a younger generation for a significant blues musician

@@ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ec I went and listened, thank you for the info! today i found out 2 of my fav song were covers 😄 the other being a song sang by italian washer women covered by a japanese noise band 👹 OOIOO-UMA

@@ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ec i’m guessing you’re a musician? do you ever collab?

@ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ec (Continued from previous comment…) There was never a huge, proactive craze for solo-guitarists singing and accompanying themselves and playing slide in weird tunings. That didn’t come until the blues/folk revival of the 1960s, where guys like Bukka White, Skip James, Son House, etc etc finally had a break through, albeit with white, college aged kids who were looking for the “roots” of the music that was coming out on the radio at that time. But there isn’t really even a point in bringing up blues musicians around the Great Depression when talking about Fred McDowell and especially R. L. Burnside, whose professional careers did not begin until well into the mid-to-late 20th Century, towards the end of their lives. This recording you are listening to right here of Burnside (who was born just three years before the Depression hit) was (along with his other 1967 records) originally field recordings made by George Mitchell, a journalist and amateur ethnomusicologist. They were only retroactively published by a label for profit. Although he had some big opportunities and points of exposure within the next 20 years, he didn’t start making an actual, profitable career as a musician until the last decade or so of his life. Much of the same can be said about Fred McDowell, who started playing guitar when he was 14 in the late 1910s, but was a regular laborer pretty much all of his life and well before the depression hit. Similarly to Burnside, McDowell was never recorded until Alan Lomax (one of the most prolific American ethnomusicologists) discovered him during his 1959 southern journey. Those recordings were also only retroactively published by a label for profit.