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 ...

The music Cedric Burnside plays is expressive, sexy, real and almost dead. Burnside has been a working bluesman since before he was old enough to obtain a driver's license. He started out drumming for ...

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 ...

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 ...