know. that started the blues. i am by no means an expert on blues. but here s what i do know. you ve got delta and you ve got hill country. delta is the one that everyone s most familiar with. made famous by muddy waters and one of my parent favorites, howlin wolf. hill country has more complex rhythms, more of a driving groove to it. and cedric s grandfather pretty much wrote the book on it. my heart and my soul is with the old, old school music, like muddy waters. yeah. i love the delta sound as well as the hill country sound. you know, i really love the hill country because it s who i am, you know. at this point in your career, you re well-known all around the world. you could live anywhere in the u.s. why do you still live in mississippi? mississippi just does it for me. it s me stepping out in the moderns on the porch, you know, looking at the fog or just smelling the mississippi air. i can i can pick up my guitar
do you know if this is the black one or the white one? i don t know. it s one of em. it s interesting. people always sort of joke around about blues where it s sort of like my dog died, my wife left me. i ain t got no money left. it happens. it happens. but blues does have its roots in talking about difficult times. i would say it started through slavery. you know, slaves in the field wanting to talk to each other, but they can t. so they had to find ways to do it without being noticed, you know. and that might be an old spiritual song or just a word that they come up with, you know. that started the blues. i am by no means an expert on blues. but here s what i do know. you ve got delta and you ve got hill country. delta is the one that everyone s most familiar with. made famous by muddy waters and one of my parent favorites,