Junior Kimbrough

Kimbrough’s monumental blues are the first and last word on modern styles. It’s as if everyone else got it all wrong and Kimbrough stands as the lone, genuine descendent of the music the masters made before anyone even had the means to record them or the idea to make money off them. There are no bad songs on here because Kimbrough didn’t record any bad songs.

Late Mississippi bluesman gets the greatest-hits collection he deserves this, boys and girls, is
why not everyone can play the blues. The late Mississippi bluesman Junior Kimbrough
never had the specific blues of the milk-cow variety; his music was all about the state of
the soul, a clashing of passion, terror and life force. He had a voice that moved from
sinuous whipcord to plaintive howl, utterly in command and completely out of c... More >