Geography has always been important to music. Especially before advances in transportation and communication, communities developed specific local styles of music, much like accents and dialects. But ...

RIPLEY - Tippah County residents were treated to sounds of great music, the smells of food trucks and a rib cook off, and the sights of a car show and arts and crafts vendors on Saturday, June 8, as ...

Singer/songwriter Cedric Burnside introduces theGrio to a lesser known type of blues music. The Mississippi native — who, in 2022, nabbed a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album for his LP, “I ...

When Cedric Burnside accepted a Grammy in the traditional blues category for his album I Be Trying in 2022, it wasn’t just just a victory for him – it was also the first time any Mississippi Hill ...

Bite into an old blues song. Spit some out. Let it sit in the sun, soften and rot. Find a blues seed in the pulp. Replant it in a pile of rock. See that seed take root, grow stronger amid the stones.

Burnside’s I Be Trying won a Grammy in 2022 for Best Traditional Blues Album. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Carver Community Cultural Center Grammy-winning blues musician Cedric Burnside — known for mixing ...

June is Black Music Month, and we’re celebrating the musical accomplishments and contributions of Black artists in all the various genres. Singer/songwriter Cedric Burnside is an artist from a genre ...