2.01.2011

JUNIOR KIMBROUGH: Meet Me In The City (1999)


Junior Kimbrough was born in Hudsonville, Mississippi,[1] and lived in the North Mississippi Hill Country near Holly Springs. He recorded for the Fat Possum Records label. He was a long-time associate of labelmate R. L. Burnside, and the Burnside and Kimbrough families often collaborated on musical projects. This relationship continues today. Rockabilly musician and friend Charlie Feathers called Kimbrough "the beginning and end of all music." This is written on Kimbrough's tombstone outside his family's church, the Kimbrough Family Church, in Holly Springs.

Beginning around 1992, Kimbrough operated a juke joint known as "Junior's Place" in Chulahoma, Mississippi, which attracted visitors from around the world, including members of U2, Keith Richards, and Iggy Pop. Kimbrough's sons, musicians Kinney and David Malone Kimbrough, kept it open following his death, until it burned to the ground on April 6, 2000.

Junior Kimbrough died of a heart attack in 1998 in Holly Springs following a stroke, at the age of 67.

5 comments:

wino said...

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wino said...

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pilgrim said...

tanks, wino

dugg said...

what a treat! mr. kimbriugh was always my favourite of the possum crew, and it's been too long since i heard some.
thanks for sharing- this is a deep blog you have here!
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dugg said...

...seems like the file is empty, though....
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