Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes & The Playboys has been played on NTS shows including The Pentagon Faceslap, with How Long This Must Go On first played on 6 August 2022.

Booba Barnes (September 25, 1936 – April 2, 1996) was an American Delta blues guitar player and vocalist. One commentator noted that Barnes, R. L. Burnside, Big Jack Johnson, Paul "Wine" Jones and James "Super Chikan" Johnson were "present-day exponents of an edgier, electrified version of the raw, uncut Delta blues sound."

Career

Born Roosevelt Melvin Barnes in Longwood, Washington County, Mississippi, United States, Barnes got his start in 1960 as a member of the Swinging Gold Coasters,…