R.L. Burnside Quotes

When I was 16 when I started trying to play, ya know, but I was 21 before I started getting out in the public playing.
R.L. Burnside

He was a big influence on me. He started me. I watched him and he was the first guy I saw play the blues. We didn't live over half a mile from him at one time. And then, for ten or twelve years we lived about a mile and a half to two miles from him. We'd be going to gin some cotton and my grandaddy and we'd be coming back in the middle of the night or in the evening and we'd stop by there and listen to Fred. When I got up to where I could play I'd go out with him on Saturday nights at them house parties, ya know.
R.L. Burnside