<div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always"><p><i>I Be Trying</i> plays as if it could have been made 50 years ago. He explains: &ldquo;The old styles stuck with me - things my Grandaddy played on the porch. That old feel will always be in me.&rdquo; But the record&rsquo;s authentic sound quality is also owing to Cedric&rsquo;s raw approach towards gear: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not that I don&rsquo;t like pedals,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s just that for the music I do, I haven&rsquo;t really needed it. I have one pedal: a boost just to turn my volume up. I have no effects, no wah, no nothing like that. I don&rsquo;t use a pick because it doesn&rsquo;t feel natural.&rdquo;</p><p>On an album produced with refreshing sparsity, Cedric&rsquo;s idiosyncratic playing and vocals shine through, intertwining against a backdrop of mesmeric polyrhythms and a refusal of familiar progressions. He explains, &ldquo;Hill Country Blues does not use the 1-4-5 hardly ever. It&rsquo;s off the beaten path, it&rsquo;s unorthodox, it&rsquo;s unpredictable. But it&rsquo;s also hypnotic and funky and driven.&rdquo;</p><div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always"><p id="3">As for guitars, Cedric is open-minded: &ldquo;To be honest with you, I have no real preference as to what guitar I use as long as it sounds good.&rdquo; On the record, we hear a Fender Stratocaster, an old Gibson (model unknown) that was hanging on the wall of the studio, and a one-offers Paul-style guitar with a solid mahogany body and P-90-esque pickups - a unique instrument made by brain-surgeon-come-luthier, Mike Aronson. &ldquo;He found a whole piece of wood,&rdquo; Cedric says, &ldquo;and he just made it to my liking. I told him I really love a big neck - almost like an acoustic - so he made it with that feel.&rdquo;</p><div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always"><p id="2">This carefree detachment to the tools of his trade leaves room for remembrance of where the music really comes from. Says Cedric: &ldquo;I have to thank my Big Daddy for just about everything because he opened the door for the Burnside family. It&rsquo;s something I&rsquo;m going to do until I leave this world and I&rsquo;m honoured and really proud to keep it going.&rdquo;</p>

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