INSTANT KARMA
Cedric Burnside
Hill Country blues scion, soulfully updating the form
Burnside: grandson of “Big Daddy” RL
CEDRIC Burnside was barely into his teens when he started drumming and touring with his grandfather RL Burnside, a giant of gritty North Mississippi blues. One of his favourite parts of the show was when the man he knew as Big Daddy sent the other musicians off the stage and played a few songs by himself.
“When he did his solo set,” says Cedric, “I would sit there and just watch him. I was listening to his rhythms, which were so unorthodox, and I was listening to his vocals, how they were so heavy but so beautiful at the same time.”