Friday, May 9, 2014

#63 It's Bad You Know -- R.L. Burnside (1998)



Most of the songs on this list seem like they’ve been around forever; I can’t really come close to remembering the first time I heard them. This is one of the exceptions. At some point in the late 1990s, I was driving back from Harrisburg one Sunday afternoon after visiting my father for the weekend. As usual, I was listening to the Harrisburg affiliate of WXPN, and was just passing through Dillsburg on U.S. 15, where reception always started to gradually deteriorate. At this point I heard a song that I had never heard before, which seemed to reach out of the car speakers and grab me. I desperately hoped that the DJ would identify the song before I was out of range. Thankfully, he did an ID right after the song ended, while I could still pick up the signal.

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