Junior Kimbrough

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David "Junior" Kimbrough (July 28, 1930 – January 17, 1998) was an American blues singer.

"Keep Your Hands Off Her" and "All Night Long" are among his most well-known scripts.

Early life

Kimbrough was born in Hudson, Mississippi, and grew up in the north Mississippi hill country near Holly Springs. Junior chose his guitar as a youth after his father, a barber, played the guitar, and his uncle, a barber, played the guitar. He was apparently inspired by guitarists Lightnin' Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and Eli Green.

Personal life

Kimbrough died of a heart attack in 1998 in Holly Springs, Texas, at the age of 67. He was survived by 36 children, according to Fat Possum Records. He is buried outside his family's church, the Kimbrough Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, near Holly Springs. Charlie Feathers, a friend of Kimbrough's, called him "the beginning and end of all music"; this tribute is written for Kimbrough's tombstone.

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Career

Kimbrough began playing the guitar in his own way in the late 1950s, playing mid-tempo rhythms and a steady drone 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 difficult syncopation between his droning bass strings and his midrange melodies. His soloing style has been described as flexible and has long runs in the middle and upper registers. Robert Palmer, a music critic, characterized the result as "hypnotic." It is often polyrhythmic in solo and ensemble settings, which connects it to African music. Eric Deaton, a former Kimbrough bassist, and Kimbrough's music were compared to Fulani musicians', such as Ali Farka Touré. "His raw, repetitive style suggests an archaic ancestor of John Lee Hooker," a man whose music shares with that of fellow North Mississippian R. L. Burnside," the music critic Tony Russell wrote.

Kimbrough shot for Goldwax Records, which is owned by R&B and gospel producer Quinton Claunch in 1966. Claunch was a founder of Hi Records and is best known as the man who gave James Carr and O.V. Wright they're getting off to a good start. Kimbrough also filmed one session at American Studios. The recordings were refusing to be released by Claunch because they were considered too country. Bruce Watson, a forty-year veteran of Big Legal Mess Records, pleaded with Claunch to purchase the original master tapes and the rights to release the recordings made that day. Big Legal Mess Records released these songs in 2009 as First Recordings.

Kimbrough's debut on the independent label Philwood in 1967 was a cover version of Lowell Fulson's "Tramp" which came as a single. On the record's label, his name was mistakenly identified as Junior Kimbell, and the song "Tramp" was listed as "Tram?" The B-side was "You Can't Leave Me" and was a joke. Two duets with his childhood friend Charlie Feathers in 1969 are among his early recordings. Kimbrough was regarded as a "near influence" by the Feathers, who gave Feathers some of his early guitar lessons.

Kimbrough made little in the 1970s, contributing an early version of "Meet Me in the City" to a European blues anthology. He formed the Soul Blues Boys, a bassist George Scales and drummer Calvin Jackson, in the 1980s, releasing a single backed by "I Feel Good, Little Girl" (I Feel Good, Little Girl). The label relived an 1988 session with Kimbrough and the Soul Blues Boys (this time featuring bassist Little Joe Ayers and drummer "Allabu Juju"), which culminated in the label's debut in 1997 as Do the Rump! Kimbrough made his Lincoln Center debut in 1987.

He received notice after seeing him playing "All Night Long" in one of his juke joints on the film documentary Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads, directed by Robert Mugge and narrated by Robert Palmer. This performance was recorded in 1990 in the Chewalla Rib Shack, a juke joint that he opened in 1990 east of Holly Springs to divert crowds from his packed house parties. Kimbrough operated Junior's Place, a juke joint in Chulahoma, near Holly Springs, from 1992, in a building that had previously been used as a church.

Kimbrough's debut album, All Night Long, brought him to national prominence in 1992. Robert Palmer produced Fat Possum's album, as well as Kenny Malone, on drums, and R. Burnside's son Garry Burnside on bass guitar, on which Jungle's son Kenny Kimbrough (also known as Kenny Malone) appeared on drums. Several of his most popular songs, including the title track, the lyric "Meet Me in the City," and "You Better Run," a harrowing ballad of attempted rape. All Night Long received almost unanimous praise from reviewers, with four actors in Rolling Stone receiving four actors. His Chulahoma restaurant began to draw visitors from around the world, including members of U2, Keith Richards, and Iggy Pop. R. L. Burnside (who recorded for the same label) and the Burnside and Kimbrough families often collaborated on musical projects.

Fat Possum, Sad Days, Lonely Nights, a second album by the same name in 1994. Kimbrough, Garry Burnside, and Kent Kimbrough appeared in Kimbrough's juke joint in a video for the album's title track. Fat Possum's last album, Most Things Haven't Worked Out, was released in 1997. Fat Possum released two compilation albums of recordings Kimbrough made in the 1990s, God Knows I Tried (1998) and Meet Me in the City (1999). You Should Run: The Essential Junior Kimbrough's Companion, which was followed in 2002.

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