Ep. 161 - Cedric Burnside

Music Makers and Soul Shakers with Steve Dawson

My guest this week is the incredible Mississippi songwriter, guitarist and drummer Cedric Burnside.

Cedric comes from a long family line of Hill Country blues musicians. His dad is the drummer Calvin Jackson and he is the grandson of the legendary R.L. Burnside, one of the great traditional Mississippi blues artists of all time. Cedric is an exceptional guitarist and songwriter who seems to have found a unique place in the landscape of modern music. He’s able to make records that sound fresh and current, but is very much honoring the traditions of the Hill Country region. It’s a totally unique style of music that you catch glimpses of with artists like John Lee Hooker and Jesse Mae Hemphill, but the really traditional music is even more specific than that. Born in the juke joints of Northern Mississippi, the music is usually driven by guitars and drums. It’s hypnotic, relentless and so unpredicatble and exciting to see live. It’s almost the kind of music that you’d think wouldn’t translate that well to record, but in Cedirc’s hands it does. He is also a fantastic drummer who has played with all kinds of artists including Jimmy Buffett, Widespread Panic, T-Model Ford, and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, not to mention his grandfather R.L.. He has a bunch of albums out under his own name including the Grammy Award-winning “I Be Trying” from 2021 and the brand new “Hill Country Love”, both of which we get into in this episode.

You can get all the info on the new album and his extensive worldwide tour dates at cedricburnside.net - Enjoy our conversation!

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