Junior Kimbrough(1930-1998)
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Born David Kimbrough in Hudsonville, MS, in 1930, Junior Kimbrough
learned to play guitar as a child by listening to the records of such
blues artists as Mississippi Fred McDowell. He made his first record,
"Tramp", in 1968, and followed that with several more singles, but
although he was well known in Mississippi, he was virtually unknown
outside it. One reason for that could be that in addition to being a
performer, he also owned "juke joints", small clubs that catered to
black audiences in the Mississippi Delta and "hill country" region, and
his careers as a performer and club owner kept him pretty much confined
to the state. In 1992 he appeared in the documentary
Deep Blues (1992), along with such
contemporaries as R.L. Burnside and
Big Jack Johnson. He recorded his first
album, "All Night Long", at about that time, for Fat Possum Records.
The album, which received accolades from such prestigious music
magazines as "Rolling Stone", finally brought him to the attention of
audiences outside of the Mississippi area.
