A former sharecropper, Burnside’s first recordings appeared in 1967 and he spent the ’70s and ’80s touring with a band that comprised himself, his sons and a son-in-law, but without much attention.

A ’90s blues documentary that featured Burnside changed that, along with subsequent tours supporting the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

In 1998, he released the commercially successful Come On In, with a song featured on “The Sopranos” television show and its soundtrack.