Some of the most hypnotic, raggedy-assed shuffling slop I have ever heard.



From the Fat Possum website:

"Junior was 67 when died of heart failure on January 17, 1998 at Mildred's apartment in the Holly Springs public housing project, watching TV on her couch. Mildred Washington, his companion of 30 years, had been taking care of him. Junior Kimbrough still kept a one-room bachelor's apartment at the time of his death: immaculately clean, with nothing whatsoever on the walls or tables, no pictures, no tour posters, nothing. Junior knew what he had accomplished, and didn't need any souvenirs. In addition to the 36 children he claimed, Junior put his brand on music."

Searching for that album cover picture above, I came across this page:

http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1902/Steber/Steber.html

There are some superb photos. Like this one:

Excellent, excellent musician. One of the only blues-things after 1970 that I can stand, in addition.

Also, that picture is incredible.

stooges do a tribute.

if the man had any influence on even some of the ideas within funhouse, not crap.

Yousendits for the edification of the masses:

Kimbrough on his own: "Meet Me In The City"
http://download.yousendit.com/BF87200832A4E60E
This one's pretty and wistful and seems to unify time. He could do this forever. Actually, I seriously want him to. You see how it fades at the end? That's because the true performance never ended and, in fact, continues to this day.

Kimbrough with a band: "You Better Run"
http://download.yousendit.com/ABAFEAAB7EC0057E
This is creepy and tense. Iggy Pop covered it on a tribute album; this was not a good choice, as Iggy's larger-than-life sort fo craziness turned it into a silly cartoon.

Hypnotic.

love him. he's one of the few post 1960/70 blues artists that i'll play on my radio show.