Junior Kimbrough - You Better Run: The Essential Junior Kimbrough
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Free Music Review: Essential Down-Home Blues
Hit: 5 Stars
"You Better Run - The Essential Junior Kimbrough" serves as a fascinating collection of tunes from one of the most hypnotically, bare-bones musicians on the twentieth century.
Junior Kimbrough was a Mississippi Delta bluesman to the core, and these tunes, all recorded live, reveal a classic musician who perfomed at his own juke joint in the Mississippi woods, and seemed to be playing for himself as much, if not more, than for others.
"All Night Long," "Meet Me In The City," "Done Got Old," "You Better Run," and the outstanding "Most Things Haven't Worked Out" display Kimbrough rough-hewd vocals and mezmerizing guitar playing.
This collection shows that there will always be musicians who live and play on their own terms. Junior Kimbrough was definitely one of the best.
Free Music Review: Great Collection but Not All Inclusive
Hit: 5 Stars
I am not one to write a review when so many people have already said so much (and they are all spot on) but there was something I needed to add here. This was the first Junior Kimbrough album I bought and it blew me away. I love Junior Kimbrough's brand of punk blues. Enjoying this collection prompted me to pick up all his other works (6 CDs in all) and they were all worth it. What I'm getting to, in a roundabout way, is that not all Junior's albums are represented on this collection. His two earliest Do the Rump and All Night Long seem to be left off of this collection, or at least the versions of songs from those albums. It is worth your money to buy this as a starter but I deplore you not to stop there pick up Junior's other works- he really deserves the spotlight which he has never gotten.Free Music Review: Essential Blues
Hit: 5 Stars
You thought Robert Johnson's Hellhound On My Trail was spooky? You haven't heard anything until you've heard Junior Kimbrough's You Better Run. How this brand of blues was overlooked for so many years is inexplicable, yet understandable as the Mississippi delta and Chicago styles of blues dominates what record labels choose to release. But up in the hill country of north Mississippi a different style of blues developed. You can hear echoes of it in Mississippi Fred McDowell and John Lee Hooker. Thank God that Fat Possum Records brought bluesmen like Kimbrough, RL Burnside, and T-Model Ford into the studio and preserved this music for future generations. Start here, then search Amazon for "Fat Possum." You will never listen to blues the same way again.Free Music Review: Haunting, visceral connection to Johnson, Patton
Hit: 5 Stars
Though I'd heard of Junior Kimbrough and read about him in Robert Palmer's seminal "Deep Blues", I really didn't appreciate Kimbrough's talents until I picked up a Rough Guide compilation of Delta blues. In a word: astonishing. The song "Meet Me in the City" creates a portrait that haunts the very core of your being. New feelings seem to emerge every time I listen to it. Kimbrough's work was stark, chilling, touching, tender, sad and hopeful all at the same time. Though a gifted guitarist, it was his voice that created a haunting and visceral connection to the Holy Trinity of Robert Johnson, Son House and Charlie Patton. Highly recommended if you love the original blues, without Chicago-style frills.Free Music Review: be careful
Hit: 5 Stars
I highly recommend this as a place to get into Kimbrough's music, having heard his songs covered by Mississippi All-Stars and, most wonderfully, by Buddy Guy on Sweet Tea. I will certainly be going back into Mr. Kimbrough's own work, though, for the edge of violence, of morality threatened by desire, which, I guess, is the theme of all good blues lyrics. But it's not the lyrics: it's the hypnotic drive, the bouncing line of repeated rhythmic figures and unexpected syncopations holding aggressive, if not violent, control on the verge of ecstasy. All said and done, though there won't be many explicit warnings, it's way more erotically charged and scarey than the hip-hop boys even approach. This is way good. Buy it.