North Mississippi, or the Mississippi Hill Country. This style Blues was ignored for decades while

[The Polack MSgt]

It's more glamourous cousins got all the attention.

From about half hour north of Hattiesburg all the way to the Tennessee line, folks were playing a rougher, edgier electric blues.

Junior Kimbrough owned a Juke joint in Chulahoma MS, which made it easy for him to get a gig

the Black Keys were big fans, in fact they released an album of Junior covers called "Chulahoma". It's pretty good.

Certainly the recording is a few orders of magnitude cleaner

Junior though... That's his tune

Perhaps the most well known (Least obscure?) Hill Country player is R.L. Burnside.

Alan Lomax drove out to film him back in 78

As an old man, he got to record a few banging albums with Fat Possum Records. In the intro to this song, he name checks the Drummer. His 15 year old Grandson

Cedric Burnside is a grown ass man now. A Hill Country artist who sings, drums and plays guitar to this day.

I think Cedric is the best young blues players on the circuit now. I never miss him if I can help it

The guitarist on this is Trenton Ayers. Also a hill country native, and a very groove oriented picker