Welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living. I'm your host, Sid Evans. And today I'm

talking with a blues guitarist and songwriter whose roots run deep in the Mississippi Hill country.

Cedric Burnside is the grandson of the famous blues man, R.L. Burnside. And he's also a Grammy

award-winning artist who's taking the genre into

new territory. He started playing the drums when he was still in grade school, and by the age of 13,

he was playing juke joints and traveling the country with his grandfather, whom he referred to as

Big Daddy. Now Burnside has a new album called Hill Country Love, his unique spin on the Mississippi

sound that his grandfather helped define. We'll talk about all that, his grandmother's biscuits,

and how he's introducing the blues to a new generation, all on this week's Biscuits and Jam. And Jams.

Cedric Burnside, welcome to Biscuits and Jam.

Thanks for having me, man.

Good to be here.

Great to see you.

Where am I reaching you right now?

Well, I'm actually in Hollis Springs, Mississippi.

I'm at Bruce College Library.

Great. So close to home. Very close to home. Yeah. Well, Cedric, I've got to start out by just saying congrats on the new album. It's called Hill Country Love. Thank you. And it's a collection of 14

terrific songs. And I've got to say there's one thing that stood out to me, and that is in the credits,

it says that it was recorded in an old building in Ripley, Mississippi.

So tell me about that.

Well, I spent a lot of time in Ripley, a really good friend of mine is named Chuck Duncan.

He's from Ripley. And so I go there to see him and we was looking at a building. I was going to make my

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