Grammy-nominated guitarist, drummer and singer-songwriter Cedric Burnside is the leading ambassador for the distinctive North Mississippi Hill Country blues genre. Born into the blues as much as he was in to funk, rock, soul and hip-hop, the 42-year old Burnside had an unmatched musical education as a young man in his grandfather R.L. Burnside’s touring band. His playing reworks and reinvigorates the traditional stripped-back sound, with its extended riffs carrying listeners to a deep Mississippi well.