Mississippi hill country blues is a style of music that has been kept alive on front porches and in bars across the southern United States. Musician Cedric Burnside is preserving what his famed ...

Geography has always been important to music. Especially before advances in transportation and communication, communities developed specific local styles of music, much like accents and dialects. But ...

What a pedigree Cedric Burnside has. The son of celebrated blues drummer Calvin Jackson and grandson of blues-guitar legend R.L. Burnside, this American drummer/guitarist/vocalist perpetuates the ...

R.L. Burnside, the son of a sharecropper who spent 40 years as a musician before his raw, edgy blues sound brought him fame far beyond his Mississippi hill country roots, has died. He was 78. Burnside ...

The Grammy-nominated artist inherited an invaluable wealth of North Mississippi blues traditions from his grandfather, RL Burnside. His new album, I Be Trying, is the next chapter in a career that ...

R.L. Burnside, 78, a Mississippi blues singer whose rough, roguish life was reflected in his raw songs about violence, sex and hard luck, died Sept. 1 at a hospital in Memphis. No cause of death was ...

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Apr. 12—RIPLEY — Cedric Burnside, torchbearer of the Northeast Mississippi hill country blues, won "Best Traditional Blues Album" at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards for his 2021 album "I Be Trying." ...

“This city’s filled with reasons to kill, but everyone wants to play the blues.” So lamented the Lost Sounds over 20 years ago on their Black-Wave album, and that sentiment, that palpable frustration, ...

Growing up poor in Mississippi, Cedric Burnside didn't have running water. It's a fact he highlights in the first song on his Grammy-nominated album, Benton County Relic. In the upbeat, soulful song, ...

The Blues By Budweiser concert series will feature Kent Burnside at 8 p.m. Nov. 5 at RJ's Grill & Bar, 128 S. Main St. The doors will open at 7 p.m. Admission is $5 although Port City Blues Society ...