Talk:R. L. Burnside

message: I feel the sentence about the reduced murder sentence needs verification and citation. I found a quotation in Pitchforkmedia.com vaguely similar to the one I just removed about the murder; the quotation in Pitchfork was that the man's death was "between him and God," but I found online no quote the same as the one I removed; I also feel it's not pertinent. If the sentence discussing the reduction of his murder sentence can be verified, it probably belongs there. I found and corrected a lot of spelling errors just now that almost seemed deliberately done, but hopefully were not. User:Bebop 22:39, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm now moving this page from RL Burnside to R. L. Burnside per the Naming Conventions faq. The man's name has periods in it anyway as he is best known. I do think the extra space between the initials is incorrect style, but I'll take that up elsewhere. Bebop 15:03, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

text: Fat Possum's site confirms this, though the hurricane isn't mentioned.  He was in Memphis.  We've lost one of the greats.  Hope his descendents will keep the music alive.  Badagnani 21:06, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: To the person removing redlinks:  please do not remove every redlink you see.  They are, to some extent, desirable on Wikipedia in that they alert editors of articles that need to be created.  Thanks.  Badagnani 17:41, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redlinks 

message: This edit was not helpful to the article. As noted by Kenny Brown himself, as well as Burnside and writers on music, it is significant that Brown is the first notable white musician to master Burnside's North Mississippi Hill Country blues style. Mentioning "white" does not demean him in any way, it simply points out a notable aspect of Brown's heritage, in a genre dominated by individuals of African American ancestry. It is POV to edit from a perspective that "everyone should be an American" and that "ethnic groups in the United States should be ignored." This is why we have articles such as Italian American, African American, or Hmong American in the first place. Badagnani (talk) 21:28, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a gross assumption of my motives, and an offensive one at that.  Please refrain from personal attacks.  His place in the Hill Country blues as a white man may be notable, but only until you provide a source for your claims.  Otherwise, it is strictly your point-of-view. . --buck (talk) 22:06, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

text: No, it is not perplexing in the least, as such information should be in the Kenny Brown article (and it is, at least at the current edit).  This is an article on Burnside, with only a passing mention of Brown.  This is not an issue of whether Brown's race is relevant to his music; it is an issue of whether or not we should include excess info on something that is not the subject of this article.  I stand by my edit, but I will not become involved in an edit war.  Hopefully others will offer assistance.  --buck (talk) 22:15, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Blanking

message: Robert Palmer and everyone after him described the elements of Burnside's music as "Droning and Slashing". I get the Drone (music), it's a simple concept and easily heard. Now about slash, do you believe what is meant is Slash chord? Can someone with musical education testify if that's important here? Or is it just pictorial description of the music, maybe derived from the way Burnside acts around a guitar.
More generally, which of this two elements should be connected with hill country blues as a style? I think drone is common elsewhere too, although maybe not as prominent, but again don't know about slash. trespassers william (talk) 18:29, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: PS Mitchell writes on drone already in 1969. trespassers william (talk) 18:49, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slash and drone 

message: Why the ref error. All I changed is
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to
 
which worked well on the rest of the page. trespassers william (talk) 13:09, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Because of the "=" within the URL. An equality sign is interpreter by templates as part of the template code, separating the name of a parameter from the content of the parameter. Thus within , that footnote text became interpreted as a parameter named "Later released on a 2010 DVD, and the Alan Lomax Archive's Youtube channel: " with a content of "PL7E44622E11A03C54 playlist" - and no actual text for the reference was found. That can be solved by explicitly adding a "1=" at the beginning to tell the template that everything that follows, including any further equality signs, should be interpreted as the first unnamed parameter. Huon (talk) 13:35, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ref help 

message: Why is there no mention of his murder conviction and very short prison stay?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sabatino1977 (talk • contribs) 14:14, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not mentioned in his bios in :All Music Guide to the Blues (1996, Skelly), The Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues (2007, Shadwick), or Encyclopedia of the Blues (1992, Herzhaft). Do you have a reliable source? —Ojorojo (talk) 14:30, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Murder conviction 

message: I don't think there's enough evidence to claim that he had two marriages. So, I think that part should be removed or atleast change to say it might not be true. Bozoguy (talk) 17:16, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second marriage