Garry Burnside - It's My Time Now

Album: It's My Time Now
Size: 112,7 MB
Time: 48:37
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2025
Styles: Blues-rock
Art: Front

1. High (3:09)
2. Young Country Boy (4:10)
3. It's My Time Now (4:51)
4. Hanging In There (4:08)
5. Bad Luck City (5:08)
6. Ramblin' (3:55)
7. Holdin' My Woman (4:13)
8. I Been Looking (4:07)
9. She's Gone (3:00)
10. AGF Out (4:24)
11. Garry's Night Out (Bonus Track) (7:28)

Garry Burnside, youngest son of legendary Hill Country bluesman R.L. Burnside, cut his teeth playing with his famous father and other siblings while growing up, beginning his professional career at the tender age of eleven. Garry spent his teens and twenties as the protégé, bassist and occasional guitarist for neighbouring Mississippi Blues legend Junior Kimbrough, with whom he toured and recorded. Burnside has now stepped out of the shadows and released ‘It’s My Time Now’, his first solo record.

Burnside’s years of playing bass guitar, bring a fluidity to his guitar playing on the album, his style swings and grooves in a similar way to that of the late great Stevie Ray Vaughan, combine that with the influence of the late R.L. Burnside and his guitar style eases from straight blues, rock, jazz and swing. A style that Burnside himself describes as “Hill Country with lil bit of funk”.

The highlights are many, including the title track, ‘Young Country Boy’ and ‘Ramblin’ and all three instrumental tracks ‘High’, ‘AGF Out’ and the incredible mood-setter, ‘Bad Luck City’. ‘It’s My Time Now’, is an album that shows an artist who has been soaking up influences and inspiration from the giants of the blues genre. Garry Burnside may have taken his time getting to the point releasing his debut solo album, but it has been worth the wait and if this collection of music is anything to go by, he’ll be doing this for many years to come. /Gerry McNally, Folk & Tumble

Personnel: Garry Burnside (vocals, guitar); Andrea Stanton (guitar); Pinky Pulliam (bass); Avery Dilworth (drums); John C. Stubblefield (bass on track 4).

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Garry Burnside - The Promise / Hill Country Magic

Album: The Promise Size: 100.0 MB
Time: 42:31
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. Promise My Dad (4:09)
02. Don't Mess With My Woman (4:04)
03. Garry's Nite Out (4:04)
04. Intro N E (4:06)
05. Country Boy (2:25)
06. I Been Looking (2:36)
07. Testifying Remix (2:34)
08. Slow Blues (3:49)
09. 3 Women (5:55)
10. Burnside Style (3:16)
11. Mello Peaches (2:57)
12. Testifying (Feat. Beverly Davis) (2:31)

A gifted guitarist inspired by his father the late legendary, RL Burnside. RL Burnside was a gifted musician, songwriter, and storyteller world known for his Hill Country Blues and movie, “Black Snake Moan” starring Samuel Jackson. Garry, his youngest son of 14 children is an explicable guitarist. Garry plays bass, and lead guitar; and he plays it so fast that his hand creates an animated motion that when each string is played from one before the other the sound is high energy, and his hand moves so fast until you can’t see the string that he plays. Garry Burnside is a native of Holly Springs, MS and has been playing guitar and traveling the world since the age of 11.

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Album: Hill Country Magic Size: 144.8 MB
Time: 61:59
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2021
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

01. 44 Pistol (4:55)
02. Goin' Down South (4:45)
03. Long Hair Doney (4:02)
04. Peaches (5:31)
05. Oh Baby Please (5:51)
06. GB Tribute Speech (0:43)
07. Do The Romp (5:46)
08. HC Boogie (4:56)
09. Picnic Jam (5:24)
10. All Night Long (5:16)
11. Let My Baby Ride (4:53)
12. Skinny Woman (4:34)
13. It's My Time Now (5:17)

In the blues world, you have families: your biological one and your blues one. Holly Springs-based musician Garry Burnside carries both with him at all times. The north Mississippi hill-country blues style of his legendary father, guitarist R.L. Burnside, who died in September 2005, inspired a line of 14 children, grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews to create their own music, forming bands and solo acts to perpetuate their heritage.

Burnside, the 39-year-old son, used elements of his past to create his current body of work, relying on self-taught guitar instincts and inspiration from his extended blues family. He grew up meeting and being influenced by artists such as Albert Collins and Little Milton Campbell, and emulating others such as Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix and B.B. King. Burnside began learning to play instruments at age 10, starting with percussion before adding bass and guitar to his repertoire.

"I picked up the guitar and drums because that's what was around the house all the time," he says. "I just did what came natural. When you grow up hearing this blues music, it gets in your head, heart and soul. I looked outside of home and picked up licks from other bluesmen, especially guitar players, to fill up on what they had to teach me. Then, I took from them to make my own sound that takes me into the future."

When Burnside started performing publicly as a teenager, he played bass for highly influential hill-country blues musician Junior Kimbrough. But after Kimbrough died in 1998, Burnside struck out on his own to form a band and play lead guitar. The multi-instrumentalist's turn as a frontman has become his main musical pursuit, though he continued to play bass alongside Grammy Award-nominated blues act The North Mississippi Allstars, appearing on several of the band's albums.

"It (lets) me experiment with new things while keeping the hill-country touch as a foundation that will never leave my show song list," Burnside says. "What I learned from being on the road with Daddy and Junior is something that can't be taught out of a book. They helped me to become a professional because, in this business, things don't always go smooth. They showed me that you don't have to have a lot of pieces behind you in the band to produce the sound you're looking for. They told me to always rely on what I know how to do and do that better than the next guy who may want to copy your sound."

That sound is at the forefront of Burnside's debut album, 2013's "The Promise," as well as his upcoming studio project, "Come into My World," which he plans to release in spring 2016. Despite his own skill and success, he says he owes a great deal to his father's legacy and expansion of the music that came before the Burnside name.

"He took something we all took for granted growing up and made something great out of it," Burnside says. "He built on the hill-country sound that blues folks from up this way created before him, and he made it a brand that hill people could be proud of, and now his children, grands, and little cousins, and them down the line keep going from one generation to the next." ~Brinda Fuller Willis

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