R L Burnside: Rollin’ and Tumblin’

This is one of the great blues standards. An ideal juke joint tune. It was recorded by Canned Heat on their debut album in 1967. And by Bob Dylan on Modern Times 40 years later. It never loses it’s appeal. Here it is being played by the legendary R L Burnside. Burnside was convicted for murder and infamously said: “I didn’t mean to kill nobody … I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head. Him dying was between him and the Lord.”