R. L. Burnside and His Music

The musician that I selected to write about from You See Me Laughin’ is R. L. Burnside. I chose him because it seems as though he was probably the main character of this movie. It also seems as though this movie talked more about him and focused more on his music. I chose him because I thought that he would be the easiest to write about as well. I really did not like any of the music that any of the musicians played in this movie. I think that the best music that was played was when Burnside joined with a few other musicians to form that band. Even though their music together was the best, I do not even think that their music was good. The best part about their music would probably have to be the drum player playing the drums. Maybe I feel this way because I play the drums myself and like it better than all of the other instruments that their band played. In my opinion, Burnside can not sing. He is horrible. I do not know why anyone would pay to watch him perform, especially if he is performing by himself (not in the band). I got an example of one of his songs from YouTube. Here is a link to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8RtayjqqIw. The song that he is performing is called “Poor Black Mattie.” I really could not even tell you what this song was about. That is how horrible it was. His guitar playing is all right, but his singing is very bad. His guitar playing is boring. There is no excitement in it. I also think that there should be some type of beat or drums in this performance of his, especially if he is going to be so boring. I do not like this kind of music at all. I like hearing bass and a beat (most of the time) when I am listening to music. If there is not any bass or beat at all in a song that I am listening to, then the singer or singers that are singing the song have too be singing it very well. This guy is not even close to singing very well. I do not know why anyone would like this guy. Maybe they may like him because he is bringing some of the old music back and trying to make it popular. (I guess I would consider this old because I do not listen to it and it does not seem to be very popular). I listen to another one of his songs called “Just Like a Woman” on YouTube also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mRTU_7M97Q. This song was all right. His guitar playing in this song was better than it was in the previous song that I listened to. His singing was still bad. He did have a little beat in this song. I think he was making it with his foot. That made a big difference in this song. I watched another one of his songs called “Poor Boy Long Ways from Home,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjGf4AkgM4Q&feature=related. This song was just as bad as the first one, in my opinion. Overall, I think that this type of music in general (including R. L. Burnside’s music) sounds bad, is too sound sounding, and is boring.