If you’re not totally clear where Cedric Burnside is coming from, just take a look at his recent album titles.

There was 2015’s “Descendants of Hill Country” under the name Cedric Burnside Project. Then in 2018, he released “Benton County Relic” under his own name.

In 2021, his album “I Be Trying” won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. And he followed it up this year with “Hill Country Love,” a 14-track ode to his home region — the northeast corner of Mississippi that gives the raw, old-school blues style known as hill country blues its name.

Burnside’s roots there run deep: His father is drummer Calvin Jackson. His grandfather is hill country blues legend R.L. Burnside. He grew up in Holly Springs — a blues wellspring between Tupelo, Mississippi and Memphis — and was playing in juke joints with his grandad’s band by the time he was 13 years old.

Cedric Burnside is North Mississippi hill country through and through. And whether he’s on tour in Georgia (as he is when he chats with The Bulletin) or he’s playing festivals in France (as he will this summer) or he’s visiting Bend’s Volcanic Theatre Pub (as he will Monday), you can count on him to spread the hill country love.

“No disrespect, but when people enjoy the hill country blues — the rawness of it — I would like to think that is what they want (when they come to see me),” Burnside said. “It’s what I do. It’s who I am.”

To be clear, the hill country blues is different from, say, Eric Gales’ blues or Samantha Fish’s blues or Gary Clark Jr.’s blues. Hill country blues feels primitive and hypnotic, with a heavy focus on droning notes and few chord changes, prominent percussion and deep, entrancing grooves — the kind of grooves that hit you deep in your gut and shudder your soul. On “Hill Country Love,” Burnside pairs these sonic elements with lyrics about love, faith, family, forgiveness, hard work and his deep, abiding love of both music and traveling around, playing music for people.

More people than ever are interested in Burnside’s sound these days.

“To win the Grammy for country-blues is a big thing, to be sure, especially for my region, because it had never been done before,” Burnside said. “I just try to set that aside and not think about it. I’m just glad that people listen to my music and they like it, and my job is to just stay true to myself.”

His home will help keep him grounded. “Hill Country Love” was recorded “in an old building” in Ripley, Mississippi, a tiny town about 30 miles east of Holly Springs as the crow flies. The building had great acoustics, Burnside said; he even intended to open a juke joint there someday.

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“It just sounded so old-school in there. It had an all-wooden floor, wooden walls, wooden ceiling,” he said. “My music is fairly modern but it really made it have that old-school sound and I really dig that. It turned out great, man.”

So the building was perfect for a recording session, but it didn’t work out as the future site of Burnside’s juke joint. He’s hellbent on opening one, though, if for no other reason than to give back to the place that made him what he is today.

“I’ve been here my whole life and it’s very spiritual to me. I can always be creative here,” he said. “I’ve been to so many beautiful places all over the world and all I can tell you is nothing makes me want to leave Mississippi. I always find myself back there. And I always have that love for it.”

If You Go

What: Cedric Burnside

When: 8 p.m. Monday

Where: Volcanic Theatre Pub, 70 SW Century Drive, Bend

Cost: $18

Contact: volcanictheatre.com.