RIP, R. L. Burnside
Just got word from RL Burnside’s label, Fat Possum, that the late blooming blues musician passed away today in Memphis at the age of 81. Going from a hardscrabble life as a sharecropper and fisherman, he recorded for the first time in 1968 but didn’t make it into the public eye until his 1996 collaboration [...]
Catching up; golf introduction
There’s something about business travel, even to a location with high-speed Internet, that makes it challenging to keep to a normal posting schedule. In our case here, the specific issues were:
A game of golf, my first ever, played on a partly rainy day on Tuesday
A bad cold that started arriving yesterday
I do not think that [...]
