Burnside's two Grammy-nominated album projects - 2015's Descendants of Hill Country and 2018's Benton County Relic - were both the culmination of a lifetime of musical work channeling the spirit of the blues on drums, guitar and vocals in the North Mississippi Hill Country tradition The blues is music for all times - past, present and future - and few artists simultaneously embody these diverse temporal moments of the genre like North Mississippi's Cedric Burnside