Artist: Cedric Burnside
Album: Hill Country Love (Provogue/Mascot)
To those familiar with Mississippi’s distinct strain of hill country blues, Burnside is a name that carries weight. The big bang that started it all was the late RL, whose hypnotic grooves were the stuff of cult legend for more than half a century. But of the Burnside progeny keeping the hill country sound alive, few are rising faster than 45-year-old Cedric, who now follows 2021’s Grammy-winning I Be Trying with latest studio album, Hill Country Love. “To God be the glory,” he demurs, modestly, of this acclaimed new release, but the propulsive pulse of his guitar work surely deserves credit, too.
For the benefit of anyone who is so far uninitiated in Mississippi’s hill
