We got half way through a tour with the great Cedric Burnside in March 2020, then that thing hit! The boys were blastin’ there way across the land only to be cut short, but not this time. On his fourth tour of Oz following his third Grammy nomination – a Best Traditional Blues Album nod for this year’s ‘I Be Trying’, which he recorded at Royal Studios in Memphis, where Al Green cut his classic sides for Hi Records in the’60s and ’70s, Cedric and band will take their powerful sound and power pretty much everywhere next March.
Cedric is blues royalty. The grandson and longtime drummer of the late great RL Burnside, he carries the mantle of Mississippi Hill Country blues – with its commitment to polyrhythmic percussion and its refusal of familiar blues chord progressions – to new audiences around the world. These days predominantly a guitarist, Cedric plays stripped back, and sizzles like a live-wire. Cedric’s music echoes the past, present and future all at once and expands upon the traditional darkness of blues with themes of love and hope. You don’t know soul-stirring until you know Cedric Burnside.
4 MARCH – ARCHIE’S CREEK HOTEL, ARCHIE’S CREEK, VIC
5 MARCH – THEATRE ROYAL, CASTLEMAINE, VIC
6 MARCH – WESTWOOD, MELBOURNE, VIC
9 MARCH – THE ESPY, MELBOURNE, VIC
10 MARCH – NORTHCOTE SOCIAL CLUB, MELBOURNE, VIC
11,12 MARCH – PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL, PORT FAIRY, VIC
14 MARCH – WOMADELAIDE, ADELAIDE, SA
16 MARCH – ROYAL OAK HOTEL, LAUNCESTON, TAS
17 MARCH – REPUBLIC BAR, HOBART, TAS
18 MARCH – PORT CYGNET CANNERY, CYGNET, TAS
19 MARCH – CITY RECITAL HALL, SYDNEY, NSW
20 MARCH – THE ZOO, BRISBANE, QLD