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Roosevelt Melvin “Booba” Barnes (September 25, 1936 – April 2, 1996) was an American Delta blues guitar player and vocalist. One commentator noted in 2003 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.