Oct 31st, 2008 · Can a children's author strike gold twice? R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series sold more than 300 million copies in the 1990s. Now, he's hoping to revisit that success with Goosebumps: HorrorLand.
Jul 31st, 2006 · West Africa literally meets Mississippi on Afrissippi's debut album. Guelel Kumba and R.L. Burnside apprentice Eric Deaton find similarities between their respective traditions: Fulani music and Mississippi blues.
Sep 3rd, 2005 · Country bluesman R.L. Burnside died this week in Memphis at 78. He worked a good part of his life as a sharecropper in the Mississippi Delta. He made his first recording in his 40s and didn't become a fulltime professional musician until he was in his 60s.
Dec 19th, 2004 · Fat Possum Records, based in Oxford, Miss., is an independent label founded as a platform for gritty bluesmakers R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. But as the label's artists have grown old and some have died, NPR's Jesse Baker reports on a shift to a new generation of blues-oriented alternative rock.