Cedric Burnside: Hill Country Love
Thursday, December 4, 2025
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Music
All Ages
$45 ($55.38 w. taxes/fees) Premium Seating
$35 ($43.85 w. taxes/fees) Preferring Reserved Seating
$25 ($32.30 w. taxes/fees) Advance General Admission
$30 ($35 w. taxes/fees) At The Door General Admission
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Grammy winner Cedric Burnside brings the raw, hypnotic groove of Hill Country Blues to the Parkway stage with Hill Country Love, the follow-up to his 2021 Grammy-winning album I Be Trying. Known for his intense, soulful performances, Burnside's music honors the past while pushing the Hill Country sound forward. Don't miss a night of music straight from the heart of Mississippi!
When Cedric Burnside prepared to record Hill Country Love (released 4/2025), he set up shop in a former legal office located in a row of structures in the seat of Tippah County, Mississippi, a town with 5,000 residents that’s known as the birthplace of the Hill Country Blues style. The 14 songs on the record were finished in two days, but in addition to being satisfied with the sound, Burnside believes that Hill Country Love represents real creative progress. Certainly, plenty of things have happened in Cedric Burnside’s life since he went on the road at age 13, drumming for his grandfather, the pioneering bluesman R.L. Burnside. His two albums before I Be Trying — 2015’s Descendants of Hill Country and 2018’s Benton County Relic — were both nominated for Grammys. He received a National Heritage Fellowship, the country’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts and was recently recognized with the 2024 Mississippi Governor's Art Award for Excellence in Music. He has performed and recorded with such diverse musicians as Jimmy Buffett, Bobby Rush, and Widespread Panic. He’s also appeared in several films, including Tempted and Big Bad Love (both released in 2001) and the 2006 hit Black Snake Moan, and he played the title character in 2021’s Texas Red.