🎵 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: This Friday we welcome cedric.burnside who will be closing out week two of the Musicians Corner fall concert series! . . . When Cedric Burnside prepared to record Hill Country Love, the follow-up to his 2021 Grammy-winning album I Be Trying, he set up shop in a former legal office located in a row of structures in Ripley, Mississippi, the seat of Tippah County, a town known as the birthplace of the Hill Country Blues style. Producer Luther Dickinson brought recording equipment into the empty space and they recorded fourteen songs in two days. Burnside has never strayed far from the distinctive style pioneered by his grandfather, blues legend R.L. Burnside, and Burnside sees himself as an inheritor, not an imitator. He incorporates rock, R&B, and hip-hop elements into his work. “Love You Music” reveals the parallels between the polyrhythmic, droning sound of the Hill Country style and West African music, and on “Closer,” Burnside strives for spiritual redemption. ...