⬇️ JUNIOR KIMBROUGH ⬇️
(David 'Junior' Kimbrough)
DISCOGRAPHY (1966-2021) (11CD)
BIOGRAPHY
David "Junior" Kimbrough (July 28, 1930 – January 17, 1998) was an
American blues musician. His best-known works are "Keep Your Hands off
Her" and "All Night Long".
Kimbrough was born in Hudsonville, Mississippi, and lived in the north
Mississippi hill country near Holly Springs. His father, a barber,
played the guitar, and Junior picked his guitar as a child. He was
apparently influenced by the guitarists Lightnin' Hopkins, Mississippi
Fred McDowell and Eli Green.
In the late 1950s Kimbrough began playing the guitar in his own style,
using mid-tempo rhythms and a steady drone played with his thumb on
the bass strings. This style would later be cited as a prime example
of hill country blues. His music is characterized by the tricky
syncopation between his droning bass strings and his midrange
melodies. His soloing style has been described as modal and features
languorous runs in the middle and upper registers.
The result was described by music critic Robert Palmer as "hypnotic".
In solo and ensemble settings it is often polyrhythmic, which links it
to the music of Africa. North Mississippi bluesman and former
Kimbrough bassist Eric Deaton suggested similarities between
Kimbrough's music and that of Fulani musicians[6] such as Ali Farka
Touré. The music journalist Tony Russell wrote that "his raw,
repetitive style suggests an archaic forebear of John Lee Hooker, a
character his music shares with that of fellow North Mississippian R.
L. Burnside".
In 1966 Kimbrough traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, to record for
Goldwax Records, owned by the R&B and gospel producer Quinton
Claunch. Claunch was a founder of Hi Records and is known as the man
who gave James Carr and O.V. Wright their starts. Kimbrough recorded
one session at American Studios. Claunch declined to release the
recordings, deeming them too country. Some forty years later, Bruce
Watson, of Big Legal Mess Records, approached Claunch to buy the
original master tapes and the rights to release the recordings made
that day. These songs were released by Big Legal Mess Records in 2009
as First Recordings.
Kimbrough's debut release was a cover version of Lowell Fulson's
"Tramp" issued as a single on the independent label Philwood in 1967.
On the label of the record his name was spelled incorrectly as Junior
Kimbell, and the song "Tramp" was listed as "Tram?" The B-side was
"You Can't Leave Me". Among his other early recordings are two duets
with his childhood friend Charlie Feathers in 1969. Feathers counted
Kimbrough as an early influence; Kimbrough gave Feathers some of his
earliest lessons on the guitar....
(Wikipedia)