Two Mississippi bluesmen on the 2019 Briggs Farm festival lineup have bloodlines that run a deep true blue.

Cedric Burnside and Robert Kimbrough Sr. were raised by first-generation blues players who left a legacy their offspring carry on today. Their musical landscape was juke joints and picnics where they rubbed elbows with the genre’s kings, but their early lives were anything but charmed.

They grew up poor in large families in a small Mississippi town where jobs were hard to find and difficult to keep. Working in the fields, selling fish and trips north to Chicago searching for jobs were a way of life in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

Burnside, 40, is the grandson of the late R.L. Burnside, with whom he lived and still affectionately refers to as “Big Papa.” Recognized today as a raw country blues icon, R.L. didn‘t find blues success until his graying years.

R.L. Burnside toured worldwide in his 60s and 70s, and both Cedric and Cedric’s father, the late Calvin Jackson, played drums on some tours. R.L. Burnside, who also appeared at Pocono Blues Festival in Lake Harmony, died in 2005 at age 78.

Kimbrough is the youngest son of Junior Kimbrough, who for years operated his own juke joint in northern Mississippi where he also played. The elder Kimbrough also did not achieve notice until his 60s, with his debut album, “All Night Long.” He and R.L. Burnside were neighbors, friends and shared family members as backup musicians.

“I learned all that I needed to learn about the blues from my daddy,” said Robert Kimbrough Sr., who plays at Briggs Farm on July 12. “He taught me everything, and he taught me good.”

Though Kimbrough and Burnside are friends and their families were intertwined professionally for years, they will each bring their own blues brand to Briggs.

Like his father, Kimbrough, 51, plays what he calls “cotton patch soul blues,” which he described as a sound that evokes the “raw feeling folks have” after they work in the fields all day. His three-piece electric band will bring that sound to Briggs’ Back Porch Stage, a replica of where southern fieldhands would come to hear their music while sipping moonshine.

“People coming to hear me will have a good time and should remember to bring their dancing shoes,” said Kimbrough, who in June played at a Mifflinburg club. “We got plenty of stuff to keep them moving.”

The more versatile Cedric Burnside takes the main stage at 4 p.m. July 13. A drummer who’s won numerous national awards, he also ably plays acoustic and electric guitar during his interpretation of hill country blues mastered by his grandfather. He was nominated for a Grammy in 2015 for Best Blues Album.

Both Burnside and Kimbrough tour internationally at times and appear at clubs and festivals in the United States to carry on a tradition fueled by blood, sweat and tears.

“With Cedric and Robert being born into the blues, it’s in their blood and they are carrying on the family name — which is very important to them. This makes them rich in many ways, besides financially,” said Michael Cloeren, a blues festival promoter from Jim Thorpe.