Cedric O. Burnside (born August 26, 1978)
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electric blues
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guitarist, drummer, singer and songwriter. He is the son of blues drummer
Calvin Jackson and grandson of blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist
R. L. Burnside
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.
Amongst many others, Burnside has played drums, either live or on record, with R. L. Burnside,
Jessie Mae Hemphill
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John Hermann
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Kenny Brown,
Richard Johnston,
Jimmy Buffett
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,
Paul "Wine" Jones,
Widespread Panic
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Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
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.
Early life and education
Burnside was born in
Memphis, Tennessee
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, United States,
to Calvin Jackson and Linda Burnside,
and raised in
Holly Springs, Mississippi
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,
in the house of his grandfather, R. L. Burnside, and the extended family. By the age of 13, he began to tour with his grandfather's band, as a drummer.
He had overlapped his father's time in the band, and would eventually replace him on the drums.
Career
In 2002, Burnside played on
Richard Johnston's debut album, ''Foot Hill Stomp''.
Burnside followed this two years later by playing percussion on Johnston's ''Official Bootleg #1'' album.
A short-term partnership of Cedric with Garry Burnside (his uncle two years elder) in 2006, saw them record ''The Record'', billed as Burnside Exploration. They had tour dates as opening act and
jam
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partners for
Widespread Panic
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.
Later in 2006 in
Clarksdale, Mississippi
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, Burnside teamed up with Lightnin' Malcolm, and they both toured and recorded the ''Juke Joint Duo'' album.
In 2008 they released ''Two Man Wrecking Crew'',
on which
Jason Ricci
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played harmonica and
Etta Britt
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performed
backing vocals. It won a Blues Music Award for 'Best New Artist Debut' in 2009.
The duo also toured with the
Big Head Blues Club, a collaboration which led to them jointly recording the album, ''100 Years Of Robert Johnson'' in 2011, to mark the centennial of the birth of
Robert Johnson
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.
Another collaboration followed, this time with his younger sibling, Cody Burnside, plus his uncle, Garry Burnside, which created the Cedric Burnside Project. From 2011 he recorded and toured with Trenton Ayers. In 2011, ''The Way I Am'' album was released.
Burnside's brother, Cody, died in 2012,
and their father followed in 2015.
In late 2012 he recorded the album ''Allison Burnside Express'' with
Bernard Allison
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, released in 2014.
Burnside's 2013's ''Hear Me When I Say'',
and the later ''Descendants of Hill Country'' (2015), were issued under the Cedric Burnside Project name and using the guitar playing of Ayers. The latter was funded using a
Kickstarter
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campaign.
Burnside has had cameo appearances in three films – ''
Tempted'' and ''
Big Bad Love
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Burnside has performed with Lightnin' Malcolm at Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival (2008), Memphis in May
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, Notodden Blues Festival
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(both 2009), and Voodoo Experience
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(2010).
In 2018 he released the album ''Benton County Relic'', which he recorded with Brian Jay of Pimps of Joytime. ''Benton County Relic'' was nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album
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at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards
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in 2019.
Awards and honors
In 2013, Burnside won the Memphis Blues Award as 'Drummer of the Year' for the third time.
Burnside won his fourth overall, and third consecutive Blues Music Award
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in May 2014, in the category of 'Instrumentalist - Drums'. He won the award again in 2019, and 2020.
The album ''Descendants of Hill Country'', was nominated for a Grammy Award
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in 2016 for Best Blues Album
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.
''Benton County Relic'' was nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album
The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album was awarded from 1983 to 2011 and from 2017 onwards. Until 1992 the award was known as Best Traditional Blues Performance and was twice awarded to individual tracks rather than albums.
The award w ...
at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards
The 61st Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on February 10, 2019, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys hosted. During her opening monologue, Keys brought out Lady Gaga, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jennifer Lopez, and fo ...
in 2019.
He is a recipient of a 2021 National Heritage Fellowship
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awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts
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, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
For his album ''I Be Trying'', Burnside won the Best Traditional Blues Album
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The award w ...
at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards
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in 2022.
Discography
See also
* List of electric blues musicians
References
External links and further reading
Official Website
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*"Mississippi Hill Country Blues, The Next Generation", ''Living Blues
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''. Issue 189, April 2007.