Descendants of hill country

"Burnside stands as a one-man refutation of all the pessimism, melding the famous "trance-blues" modal style of his grandfather, the late Mississippi Hill Country guitar shaman R.L. Burnside, with modernist influences - deeply rooted, yet charged with a nearly transcendent feel of adventure and discovery ... the music itself is raw, yet laced with a deeply textured refinement of spirit as elusive as it is palpable ... That voice, unforced yet shot through with emotion and hard-won experience, reflects the eloquence of Burnside's lyrics and the message of his music".