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Cedric Burnside Expresses His ‘Hill Country Love’

On his third solo album, the grandson of blues legend R.L. Burnside carries the Mississippi Hill Country blues forward

Burnside, whom he affectionately calls his “big daddy,” as well as Junior Kimbrough, who referred to his own variant as “cotton patch soul blues.” At juke joints in the region’s hills and hollers, performances of canonical songs like “Jumper on the Line” and “All Night Long” by R.L., Junior and their extended families could stretch to twenty minutes or longer on the strength of a solid backbeat, often played by Cedric himself. Cedric Burnside: By the time I was ten I played in juke joints, and I did my first tour with my big daddy at age thirteen.

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