Cedric Burnside w/ Brett Benton

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Please view our most up-to-date COVID-19 guidelines before entering the show: http://www.tractortavern.com/tractor-covid-guidelines The blues is music for all timepast, present, and futureand few artists simultaneously exemplify those multiple temporal moments of the genre like North Mississippis Cedric Burnside. The Mississippi Hill Country blues guitarist and singer/songwriter contains within him the legacy and future of the regions prescient sound stories. At once African and American and southern and Mississippian, these stories tell about love, hurt, connection, and redemption in the South. His newest contribution to this tradition is I Be Trying, a 13-track album treatise on lifeschallenges, pleasures, and beauty. Life can go any kind of way, Burnside says. With almost 30 years of performing and living blues in him, he would know.Burnsides blues inheritance, the North Mississippi Hill Country blues, is distinct from its Delta or Texas counterparts in its commitment to polyrhythmic percussion and its refusal of familiar blues chord progressions. Often, and especially in Burnsides care, it leads with extended riffs that become sentences or pleas or exclamations, rendering the guitar like its West African antecedent, the talking drum. Riffs disappear behind and become one with the singers voice, like the convergence of hill and horizon in the distance. Sometimes they become the only voice, saying what the singer cannot conjure the words for. Across some nine individual and collaborative album projects, Burnsides voice eases seamlessly into, through, and behind theriffs spirit gifts him, carrying listeners to a deep Mississippi well. There is mirror there in the water of that well, in Burnsides music, that shows us who and what we have been, who we are, and what we might be if we look and heed.

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