Alice Mae Taylor married bluesman Robert Lee Burnside in 1951 and the couple reared 12 children in north Mississippi. Many of their children are in the music business including sons Duwayne and Cedric who are guitarists. Other children are daughters, Mildred Burnside, Linda Jackson, Brenda Brooks, and Pamela Denise Burnside, and sons Melvin, Robert Jr, Calvin, Joseph, Daniel, Dexter and Garry Burnside. In 2004 several family members opened the Burnside Blues Cafe in Holly Springs, MS.
Alice Mae Burnside will be remembered forever, as her husband R.L. paid her tribute in his song "Alice Mae" (released on his 1997 CD entitled "Mr. Wizard" and covered by Samuel L. Jackson in the movie Black Snake Moan), with the lyrics, "If you see my baby, they call her Alice Mae, tell all them fellas, they'd better stay away, my woman she love me, she sure do treat me fine, mess with my woman, I have to take your life."
ALICE MAE BURNSIDE. April 26, 1932 - November 16, 2008. Beloved wife of the late R.L. Burnside passed away Sunday. She was a loving mother to 12 children and grandmother to a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her smile, her laugh and her beauty are missed by all that knew her and loved her. Services will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Tchulahoma Church on Hwy. 4 in Byhalia with a graveside service at Free Spring Cemetery in Lost Hill, MS. The family requests all flowers be sent to Rodgers Funeral Home in Coldwater. (Published in The Commercial Appeal 11/22/2008)
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Alice Mae Burnside will be remembered forever, as her husband R.L. paid her tribute in his song "Alice Mae" (released on his 1997 CD entitled "Mr. Wizard" and covered by Samuel L. Jackson in the movie Black Snake Moan), with the lyrics, "If you see my baby, they call her Alice Mae, tell all them fellas, they'd better stay away, my woman she love me, she sure do treat me fine, mess with my woman, I have to take your life."
ALICE MAE BURNSIDE. April 26, 1932 - November 16, 2008. Beloved wife of the late R.L. Burnside passed away Sunday. She was a loving mother to 12 children and grandmother to a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her smile, her laugh and her beauty are missed by all that knew her and loved her. Services will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Tchulahoma Church on Hwy. 4 in Byhalia with a graveside service at Free Spring Cemetery in Lost Hill, MS. The family requests all flowers be sent to Rodgers Funeral Home in Coldwater. (Published in The Commercial Appeal 11/22/2008)
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Alice Mae Taylor married bluesman Robert Lee Burnside in 1951 and the couple reared 12 children in north Mississippi. Many of their children are in the music business including sons Duwayne and Cedric who are guitarists. Other children are daughters, Mildred Burnside, Linda Jackson, Brenda Brooks, and Pamela Denise Burnside, and sons Melvin, Robert Jr, Calvin, Joseph, Daniel, Dexter and Garry Burnside. In 2004 several family members opened the Burnside Blues Cafe in Holly Springs, MS.
Alice Mae Burnside will be remembered forever, as her husband R.L. paid her tribute in his song "Alice Mae" (released on his 1997 CD entitled "Mr. Wizard" and covered by Samuel L. Jackson in the movie Black Snake Moan), with the lyrics, "If you see my baby, they call her Alice Mae, tell all them fellas, they'd better stay away, my woman she love me, she sure do treat me fine, mess with my woman, I have to take your life."
ALICE MAE BURNSIDE. April 26, 1932 - November 16, 2008. Beloved wife of the late R.L. Burnside passed away Sunday. She was a loving mother to 12 children and grandmother to a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her smile, her laugh and her beauty are missed by all that knew her and loved her. Services will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Tchulahoma Church on Hwy. 4 in Byhalia with a graveside service at Free Spring Cemetery in Lost Hill, MS. The family requests all flowers be sent to Rodgers Funeral Home in Coldwater. (Published in The Commercial Appeal 11/22/2008)
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Alice Mae Burnside will be remembered forever, as her husband R.L. paid her tribute in his song "Alice Mae" (released on his 1997 CD entitled "Mr. Wizard" and covered by Samuel L. Jackson in the movie Black Snake Moan), with the lyrics, "If you see my baby, they call her Alice Mae, tell all them fellas, they'd better stay away, my woman she love me, she sure do treat me fine, mess with my woman, I have to take your life."
ALICE MAE BURNSIDE. April 26, 1932 - November 16, 2008. Beloved wife of the late R.L. Burnside passed away Sunday. She was a loving mother to 12 children and grandmother to a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her smile, her laugh and her beauty are missed by all that knew her and loved her. Services will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Tchulahoma Church on Hwy. 4 in Byhalia with a graveside service at Free Spring Cemetery in Lost Hill, MS. The family requests all flowers be sent to Rodgers Funeral Home in Coldwater. (Published in The Commercial Appeal 11/22/2008)
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