R.L. BURNSIDE: The Original Boogie : LIVE!
compilation of 3 live recordings 98/99/2000

Tracklisting:
Recorded at House of Blues,Chicago 1998 (FM broadcast)
1) Old black Maddie
2) Shake 'en on down
3) Rollin' and Tumblin'
4) Please don't stay
5) Long Haired Doney
6) Boogie chillun
7) Walkin blues
8) Po' Boy
9) Goin' with you Baby
10) You better stay awhile
11) Let my baby ride

Recorded 4/29/2000 in Jackson, Miss. (soundboard)
12) He ain't your daddy (spoken)
13) Bad luck and trouble
14) Jumper on the line
15) Dust my broom
16) Mannish Boy

Recorded in Tenn. 1999 (FM broadcast)
17) Gotta find my baby
18) Boogie instrumental

R.L. Burnside: Nov 21, 1926 - Sep 1, 2005
American blues musician (b. Nov. 21/23, 1926, Harmontown, Miss.—d. Sept. 1, 2005, Memphis, Tenn.), became widely known in the 1990s for his spare, raw style of Mississippi Delta blues. Burnside spent most of his life working as a farmer and fisherman and playing the blues in local bars in Mississippi. As a young man R.L. moved North into the neighboring Marshall County and began sharecropping. Inspired by John Lee Hooker's '50s hit "Boogie Chillun'," R.L. began singing blues and playing guitar. In addition to the Hooker 45 rpm there were other local forces that influenced R.L as well, such as Mississippi Fred McDowell and Ranie Burnette. Fed up with the hopelessness of sharecropping, Burnside migrated to Chicago in hopes of finding economic opportunity. Chicago did not work out. In the span of one month R.L.'s father, brother and uncle were murdered. Around 1959 he returned to Mississippi to again work the farms and raise a family. He also started to play music at night and on weekend.R.L.'s first recordings appeared on a 1967 Arhoolie compilation.
This all began to change for R.L. in the early '90s when the documentary film based on author Robert Palmer's book Deep Blues featured R.L. as one of its highlights. Subsequently Palmer produced R.L.'s Too Bad Jim for the fledgling Fat Possum label.
It was one of the most important and influential blues albums of the '90s. In 1998 R.L. released Come On In, which pitted his raw blues against modern electronica, courtesy of producer Tom Rothrock (Beck, Elliot Smith). The album was a critical and commercial success, and one of its tracks, "It's Bad You Know," became a respectable radio hit and was featured in The Sopranos and on its soundtrack.