R.L. Burnside: See My Jumper Hanging On the Line (1978) 

Not by any stretch

guilty as charged

Yep. Unforgettable performance.

i'm not sure

I lost count the first week I heard this. I hadn't listened to this in months but I moved to Portland OR and my neighbor was listening to RL. Kinda ironic because both of us were hardcore punk rockers back in the day.

I am

This might be the greatest comment of all RU-vid. Kudos, fellow music aficionado!

🏆best comment award

lookin at the 1st fret

@@TimTheHermit

And with a barbwire fence behind him.

Absolutely … no gimmicks, no pretentiousness involved. Just raw soulful music that gives you the cold sweats and makes your hair stand on end

nothing junky about either of those things

And crickets

When I see the guitar and amp called junky, I can't help but be reminded of this scene: Jake Blues: "Two thousand for this chunk of shit? Come on, Ray." Murph: "I mean, really, Ray. It's used. There's no action left in this keyboard." Ray Charles: "Excuse me. I don't think there's anything wrong with the action on this piano." *Brilliance ensues*

Wow! Amazing! I grew up in Mississippi. Spent my childhood in the Delta, in Greenwood and a little town called Webb. Spent some time in Holly Springs. When I hear this music it brings me right back home, even though I don't actually recall hearing anyone play the blues when I was a kid. The music was just kind of around. Strange how music and place can be tied up so keenly. But you were literally right there. Good for you! I hope some people are still playing the blues down there.

very cool

There's an old recording of this tune on Dave Stewart's "Deep Blues" soundtrack. Were you there for that? I've always wanted to speak with someone who was...

That's awesome. Are you a player as well

Men like this are one in a million. It's sad but also poetic that 90% of these men will live their life in obscurity only blessing those who come across them by chance

Brother your danm right..

WELL BOY IT JUST FOUND ME!

The first time I met the blues, I was walking down through the woods.

Found me today

Finds me every day.

Agreed.

👍

Same here

@@jacktheripper8463 you're what's wrong with the world today lmao

✅

issou

@@skateurs25 Elite ! Elite everywhere ! :'-)

The real way. Real live. No effects

@@jeffjoad9784 One man one guitar the real essence of the blues!

And two fingers

That's why they say guitar playing is in the fingers not the instrument

@@omairsh8 Yes and no. If u gave a good guitar player a shit guitar it would sound okay. But if you gave him a great guitar he'll sound better.

That's a Fender duo sonic not a cheap Squire

@@tPsychedelic you do know there are more than 2 guitar brands, right? this definitely isnt a fender, looks like a teisco or a guyatone

thats what makes the blue tha blues baby. all these kids buying these ten thousand dollar "vintage axes,. the masters played what ever they could get their hands on. its all really company hype and commercial ism. pay attention to detail these old masters won't lead you astray

Cheese Steak Jimmy's it’s amazing how time passes.

Or its dead

@@Elohim423 No dude! I'm fresh like hell!!!

Probably his grandson Cedric, who's also a musician lol

damn

alan lomax! he spent most of his life documenting folk music from all over the world, check out all the stuff he recorded over the years, it's pretty much all amazing:~) www.discogs.com/artist/468451-Alan-Lomax

Um hm m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3244748435569330&id=100001026151518

Open G tuning?

Alan Lomax. Remember his name when you listen to music like this.

I still cant tell what hes doing. Cuz hes got two melodies going on a the same time, but strums so casually

You should eat some poke berries❤

Peter de Frankrijker it go to my heh

Perfect timing.. Music is in the blood down south ..

Baby was crying in key!

its 666 dislikes now

@@kazoolordhd6591 668 now. ;¬)

Chess records was named after the folks that started it. They were Polish immigrants. Some mighty fine recordings. Little Walter, Muddy Waters era. There is a documentary on RL that talks about his experience in Chicago at the time. It is a sad story. The man had chops.

?......

So greets from Poland. Pozdrawiamy ;)

My ex was Polish, a lot of cultured people from there - that's why. You're the exception not the norm.

I get tired of equating music taste to geographic location or race. Either you love this or you're a shit.

He saw some shit

yes amazing, less is more more or or less

😂

baby prolly got perfect pitch

That's amazing you picked up on that. I just made a comment above how we saw RL's grandson, Cedric, last night, and he would have a been a baby when this was made, AND lived in his grandfather's house! Too cool L)

hthats what happenes when you hear it from the womb

True!

his real name is oliver Wendell

Word

Or a moonshiner cooking up some of that likkey.

Yeh, like "Are real sideburns?" For sure.

I don,t like blues but I do not care how you call it I love the style ,ritme, playing and singing and text’s of This great player of music .R.L.Burnside. I love you mr Burnside.

I get the impression he was pretty happy.

Octoberzzz z : 960 Bozos

I totally Agree 100% with you on that one Octoberzzz

900 people that need their thumbs snapped off!

I can't imagine why anyone cares about thumbs down.

Or maybe they just didn't like this and besides who are you to say what someone should or shouldn't like?

I love the way that many of the rural and country blues legends play multiple parts (sometimes complex off key/off rhythm parts too) at the same time Manner Lipscomb - completely different style but multitasking effortlessly on a beat to crap acoustic

3 parts with 2 fingers

Technically he's just feeling it.

which makes you a genius

he's playing the blues, a***ole.

Another name for moonshine!

That's not a baby but a peacock. They make great watchdogs.

@@kortgreen7725 that’s a baby

Right on key too

@@maryannehickey2741 dat babe Kno'd it's daddy's rhythms well

@@kortgreen7725 that’s a baby. RL had like 10 kids.

Yehaa well over 5 and a half now and growing

Folks be easy pleased

Especially if you told him that in 1978

@@Porkchop_Delight23 Explaining the Internet to guys from the 70s in the 70s would be a trip in itself…

@@Kowasi Honestly, small towns in the south ,they are hip AF when it comes to techie stuff. they just play dumb.

I liked so you can come back again just jn case you forgot but I'm sure you'll never forget

💯

Fuck yeah

You speak the truth brother.

for real that's all i thought - knew if i scrolled down i'd find it. barbed wire butterfly collar working hands grey hair sockless boots two finger pickin no solos. what a voice

i thought it was really good , what dont you like about ir ?

@@brain8484 haha :) are you serious?

Brain Sample - I do believe "That's some real shit right there" MEANS it's really good!

Damn straight.

Mississippi?

+benjaminduncan Appearance has nothing to do with talent. What's your point?.

+Carlos A. Redondo I find it transcendent. I just go to a different place beyond intellect when he plays. I hear it, but can't remember what the notes sounded like.

+zi paris yes

Belton Sutherland

*You couldn't have said it any better then that!*

NOw pay them instead of exploiting them because of color....

Completely agree.

@@alimantado373 Pay who and what? Who's exploiting who and where?

@@alimantado373 SIMPLETON

Many of the early recordings are available to listen too through the Library of Congress.

Boom! There is the truth. This guy lived it.

You got to mean it, isn't that right.

That's kind of sad.

This is what art should be. Not pursuance of Fame or Fortune. Just expression of what's in the heart

💯💯💯💯💯💯

also listen to Robert Wolfman Belfour HILL COUNTRY BLUES

Jeffrey Johnson isn't it amazing,always something we haven't heard yet one f the best

I think that's the African roots of the blues. Percussive repetitive catchy patterns that put you in a trance-like state if you dance long enough to it.

Dass a peacock.

@@kortgreen7725 dont matter it's in sync!! Sounds like Courage the Cowardly dog music

Robert plant....

That’s awesome 😎 Whatever it is... it’s right with it

@@kortgreen7725 No, a horse obviously

Everything is as it should be. Just stop listening to mainstream. Period.

Old RL is probably one of the most rhythmic blues performers I've ever heard.. You're totally right very difficult to stay in time like he does alone.

its almost like he treats it as percussion

@@LiveYourLife229 EXACTLY !!

More like fingerstyle rhythms.

I'm curious what tempo he's keeping in his head. When it shows his foot tapping, is the audio out of sync? Looks right when he's singing. Or does the riff not come in on the "1"?

@@aaronbennack714 I doubt he's keeping any tempo. Once you play solo guitar for awhile you stop caring about tempo.

Sad he couldn't enjoy it on the internet. Damn, remember the 90s? No idea how I survived without the internet

Look up Cedric Burnside

Blues History will prove...

I also hope his grandkids reaped some financial benefit for the use of his music by others.

Some of his grandkids are pretty well-known blues musicians, so they'd probably be very familiar with R.L.'s work

Where is he buried? I would like to visit one day

Are you sure they didn't move it yet?

Seriously: "still here" like it's being rented or the lease is almost up.

@@GiProHD Harmontown, MS

@@KrakenShivers9292 thanks man

What’s the record?

I just read James H. Cone’s book ‘The Cross and the Lynching Tree’. He suggests there is a very real correlation between the two and quotes some old bluesmen. I feel that the title of this is in the same vein, See My Jumper Hanging on the Line. He’s not talking about his clothes, is he? Peace x

@@gooders7366 Yes he is talking about an item of clothing in my opinion. No offense intended, but the book you mention smells of the lamp and sounds retarded. Have you read "At the Hands of Persons Unknown?" If you haven't then you should. Peace to you as well.

@@awarewolves1712 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--fPo8kX-CFM.html Mr Cone features prominently in this enjoyable, informative documentary on Malcolm X. He doesn’t come across as overly laboured, even less, retarded. The book you mention looks excellent. In the vein of exposing the horror of the black American experience. These blues men found courage to speak of horrific things in poetic language. That way you have spoken the injustice without being explicit - under the radar, so to speak. To speak of a jumper rather than a corpse, this gets under the radar. For black people under Jim Crow, it was all about being under the radar. Cone writes for the ‘Christian’ audience primarily. He is a black theologian. He points out that both people groups claimed to be Christian but that the one of them had a major plank in their eye, and were actually hypocrites. They used St Paul to justify slavery and keep black people oppressed. This is not good, certainly not ‘Christian’. Those who composed the negro spirituals and even blues songs like this here, are, really, ‘Christian’ in contrast to the majority group who claimed to be but were complicit in horrible atrocities against fellow humans. Cone equates the horrible atrocities perpetrated in those days as parallel to the cross of Christ, which cross is so profound as to provide reconciliation, in the end, for these two people groups. Thus, the cross of Christ is a ‘double cure’ - healing both the sinner and the sinned against, so that the one can face his trespass and be wrecked, and the other can face his fears and be wrecked and on the other side of fear he can compose a song of lament like this one. xxx Peace from the UK ✌🏻

In another interview he said “rl did you shoot him in self defence? I said no I shot him in the leg and he jumped the fence”

LOL. Good one! He didn't even need a band with the way he could play guitar.

And she ain't never coming back 😆 put your dog on a leash and maybe the wife too just in case 😆

Lu Cypher: Best Comment . Too funny LoL. 😂😂

@@aqua6613 that was nasty

😂😂🤣🤣 You guitar left you for R.L. Burnside. Too bad he's dead though. #Legend #Blues 🎸🔥🔥🔥🔥🐐🙌🏿🙏🏿👌🏿💯

One of the best youtube comments ever. Cheers to you.

Dorothy, you are 82 my dear?

SO beautiful!!!😊❣️

Yes ma'am.

God bless YOU Dorothy!

Just watched your video thank!you

that or a kazoo

They synced up pretty well at 3:05

Yeah, the baby is in tune.

Yes the baby wailing in tune

one of the best descriptions of blues ive seen lol

The blues is REAL......sad that many young people will never know real music....

@@bizzarroworld1518 but great that the medium we're all watching this on gives people the opportunity to discover it.

*You have **_exquisite tastes_** Mary Browns. This video is a true **_masterpiece,_** and that is an understatement, I think. So glad that you **_felt the man,_** too. He was a genius.*

Being born and raised smack dab in between birthplace of jazz and delta blues country if you don’t feel this when you hear it your soul is broken. One of my favorite raw recordings with all the unintentional sounds recorded just adds to it. Mississippi hill country life at the time :) while rl was from (what we called Mississippi hill country) he didn’t limit his influences to blues. Many influenced his style. Spent a lot of time right at the state line of La/Ms off hwy 61. There was a Li’l juke joint there, black as things were still pretty segragated there at the time. Juke joint was one place that didn’t really matter on Friday Saturday night. We were too young but we’d go sit close enough to hear the music play :)

Yes.

I was blown away when I saw this 6 years ago. Finally learned to play it

His shoes also, and that baby crying in the same key 🙂

Really

I got to get started on my decade watching it too

Me too Jr. Kimbrough R.L. Burnside T-model Ford You See Me Laughin'

Nice

Me too...I like his grandson's mixes too...which surprises an old man like me.

Yeah it's my favorite part.

you, sir, are wrong. tuning is STANDARD, but way sharp (as you put it, as semitone and a half higher than EADGBE)

sounds like you both have listened to colter wall

Colter who?

I hear the fluid "fretless" aspect to the playing. No musicianship for me, I hear too well to play.

wtf mate its just music

Couber 3$s

The 70's got some things right.

Its a combination of things that create the sound you hear. First his playing style, seccond the instrument then the amplifier.

اذا حمم جاب سيف

those old school gold foil pick ups too

Open tuning also helps.

Joseph Reinhart what tuning?

Youre the best for this comment

It's blues, so he's plugged into the earth.

he is plugged into the electric fence

He's plugged into my soul at this point and time

@ Calamity James Nice, very nice! 👏 ✌😎

ya mun,,,,id b all bout de riddim,,,widout riddim der be no music,,,yacan excaape,,,we all be 'slaves to da riddum'

But it has everything to do with dying a poor man. Funny how that works.

That'$ why I Sing the blues!!!

xzysyndrome Some people are so poor all they have is money.

@@joreygarbani6980 stop licking those boots kid.

Wow Dan, your comment was endearing and respectful but so many took it the wrong way and spun it for their own purposes. I feel for America

Tee Bro perhaps that very babe that cries 3 mins in!

Yup, it is.

I'm have to check out his grand son's music.

It adds to the beauty of the song somehow

@@vikramad36 oh hell yeah , great comment

@Danny Mathis yeah dammit, I should have put the quotes around 'legendary', my bad

Joe who?

Finally ... for for the life of me I can't see why everyone says. He's so good . Now this fella , I believe what he's saying .

Wayno Walden Joe is technical and very knowledgeable, but he’s not very authentic. He’s studies and performs blues.... he don’t live it.

@@restlessyouthproductions I have to agree with you, over practiced, too slick, probably a "classically trained" guitar player, over done, repetitious blues scales, no soul in his playing, nothing original.

what you said! the rhythmic style has this modal 'time-capsule feel' to it that makes this one of my favorite records of American music

The Mississippi hill country blues is the place to find it although you need to go back to the ones that came before him to hear more.

And this is why anyone complaining about "cultural appropriation" can get stuffed. We all have a lot to learn from eachother.

@@danielperry7132 1. This is not African music, whether brought with them, or picked up in the meantime. Blues was created by the melding between African and Western music. 2. The point I was making is that the concept of "cultural appropriation" would not only have made blues music impossible to create, but it would also have restricted it to the black community. Either way you look at it, if these people we're woke enough to consider cultural appropriation a bad thing, as some do today, we would not have had blues and probably no one would have heard about R.L. Burnside. And that is my point.

​@@danielperry7132 That is what they like to tell people about cultural appropriation. But in practice that is not the case. The privileged class is always white people, so it is a racial distinction. It doesn't matter if you're on the Forbes 500 or living in a trailer park, if you're white they think you're privileged. And it has nothing to do with "taking an already formed melding and profiting from it as their own while completely divorcing it from its original context/meaning". I think there was someone that took the idea of tacos and adapted it to local cuisine. So all they had in common with actual tacos was that they had fillings inside a tortilla. They weren't being sold as authentic Mexican tacos. That didn't stop the cultural appropriation gang to launch a campaign. Either way, my problem with how cultural appropriation is defined and handled in real life is the cancel culture. People have a right to not like them, to consider them crass, or ignorant. That's all fine. But the problem is that they immediately start screaming racism, and try, in some cases, to completely destroy that person's livelihood. And that is wrong, in my opinion. Even if some examples of cultural appropriation are born out of ignorance to a culture, at the end of the day it still shows some appreciation. Like some people that are obsessed with anime, and they use Japanese phrases even though they don't speak Japanese. They're cringey. They are ignorant by definition. But they do appreciate Japanese culture. It is better to encourage them to fix their ignorance than to label them as racists and demolish them socially. So I am all for cultural appropriation, of all kinds. I want people to learn from my culture, and I want to learn from theirs, so that we can all be better people for it.

Truth.

Its from a movie.

well spotted brother

hes got blues in his blood!

Good call.......lol

yesssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!

Boris B Thats the bloodline of a musician...taught to cry in key from an early age.