DESCRIPTION:
David "Junior" Kimbrough was born in Hudsonville, Mississippi. He lived in the North Mississippi Hill Country, near Holly Springs. Kimbrough 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. Rockabilly musician Charlie Feathers called Kimbrough "the beginning and end of all music." 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 and The Rolling Stones. Kimbrough's sons, musicians Kinney and David Malone Kimbrough (two of Kimbrough's rumored to be twenty-eight children), 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. This track, "Jr Blues", comes from the soundtrack to "Deep Blues".