#junior kimbrough

[musickickztoo]

Junior Kimbrough *July 28, 1930

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R.L. Burnside & Junior Kimbrough at Kimbrough's juke joint

[radiophd]

junior kimbrough and the soul blues boys -- come on and go with me

[missesmisery]

some of my favourite blues musicians

[carlsample8]

Me in the back, middle w/ Mary Ann Jackson and "The Up All Night Blues Band". R.I.P. the late Martin "Big Boy" Grant.

[mywifeleftme]

309: Junior Kimbrough // All Night Long

All Night Long Junior Kimbrough 1993, Demon Records (Bandcamp)

“Crawling around in the dirt. Crawling around in the dirt between the rows of blooming, blinding white cotton in the field to the side of Junior’s old country juke, and this woman, Lord she must have been sixty, she was out there crawling around in the dirt, with me, I’m not lyin’! Both of us out there in the sun, drunk on white lightnin’ in the middle of the day! And it was a Sunday! Amps turned up all the way inside the shack, drums making the floorboards boom, you could hear it fine. Yeah out there in the dirt.”

That’s how Robert Palmer, an eminent rock critic turned filmmaker and music producer whose 1992 documentary Deep Blues sped along the rediscovery of Junior Kimbrough, opens his liner notes for All Night Long. It reads like a white New York Times writer trying to summarize a scene from True Detective in the voice of Toni Morrison, but there’s nearly always some degree of authenticity fetishism in prose about the blues. Palmer describes Kimbrough’s juke joint performances as orgiastic rituals, a head full of voodoo and a belly full of moonshine, sweaty, droning, folks drawn to the shack like moths to a light that could destroy them. It’s that thing that whites have found alluring and repellant about Black music since they first encountered it, the way it seems to provide something people desire in their gut without asking moral permission to do so.

Not having been by Junior’s place, I can’t really speak to Palmer’s assessment of the scenes (maybe he’d’ve described a college club in Provincetown called Hedonism in similar terms, who knows), but he made the right decision “producing” these recordings as little as possible. Kimbrough’s music does feel like something completely unreconstructed, these endless trudging jams with their reptilian pulses closer to African trance music than the tidy verse-chorus structures imposed by physical singles. He plays at ear-bleeding volume, unmindful of feedback, with a bone-dry tone that wouldn’t be out of place on a noise rock record. These are horny moan-songs about feeling good (often in the near-abstract way you get to drinking right before the spins hit) and staying out, though there’s a throbbing vein of violence and despair at the bottom of it.

Chances are my local Blues Society parents would have some trouble with his “You Better Run,” a bleak-humoured seven-and-a-half-minute nightmare about a woman pursued by a knife-wielding rapist. Kimbrough delivers it like one of those brimstone sermons about the perils of sin, only here there’s no sin implied, no God or Devil present, just this stalking, inevitable wraith, this thing that desires you as hungrily as a yawning grave. Kimbrough rescues the woman in his car towards the end of the song, but as he drives her home he drily warns her he might decide to rape her himself, only for her to reply that he won’t have to because she loves him. It’s a grim joke, but one that no doubt got a huge reaction from his regulars the same way the nastiest shit talk in a diss track gets people going—it’s the daring they applaud, the swagger of being badder than a bad world.

309/365

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Junior Kimbrough/ Black Keys Guitar Lesson (Everywhere I Go)

A hill country blues guitar tutorial- Everywhere I Go played by the Black Keys and Junior Kimbrough 0:00 Start 2:13 Main Riff 5:21 Solo parts 7:57 Black Keys vs Junior Differences 13:08 Pedals and gear for tone

[rolloroberson]

The Black Keys cover Junior Kimbrough

[themillpond]

Mississippi & Mali

Listen to how much Mississippi bluesman Junior Kimbrough and Tuareg band Tinariwen capture a similar feel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGqOsiFwyq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix76SFstT0I

[musickickztoo]

Junior Kimbrough *July 28, 1930

[rastronomicals]

2:08 AM EDT July 11, 2024:

Junior Kimbrough - "Slow Lightnin'" From the album   The Black Keys Present The Hill Country Blues (May 2021)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Giveaway with the July 2021 issue, the one with Joni Mitchell on the cover, and the Troggs story inside.

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Want you to do me Baby, I will do you, too If you do me, ah Baby, I will do you, too

[songspiral]

"Meet Me In The City" by Junior Kimbrough